"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." - Patanjali

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Dwarka

A compliment to the trip in Somnath incorporated the place where Krishna was fatally wounded. Dwarka then was the chance to be near His kingdom. Obviously one does not see the ancient city but the temple there is magnificent. The picture and the high walls conspire to do injustice to the mandir, however from within the walls, all five elaborately carved levels are some of the most superb architecture thus far on the trip.

After Palitana, the next place where I saw tourists in the true sense was at Dwarka. Capitalising on this, a tour called Dwarka Darshan is run, and in every sense of the word, is a Darshan. If there ever was a record for the most number of mandirs in four hours, this was it.

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