My Tour Experiences to Punya Kshetram "Gokarna" and Puri Jagganatha, and "Sri Yukteswara Ashram" (Karar Ashram)
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(I bow to Ganapathi, in the form of a small kid and Sri Maha Vishnu, for bringing the Atma Linga to Gokarna)
(I bow to Ganapathi, in the form of a small kid and Sri Maha Vishnu, for bringing the Atma Linga to Gokarna)
We tried to start the tour with very plan ahead 1 month earlier to book train tickets to Gokarna and nearest railway station "Hubli", from Hyderabad.
but the problem is that train reaches Hubli by 10:30 AM, and the bus reaches (VRL services booked thru redbus.in) much earlier than to this time, ie., 7:00AM. They took a fair of around Rs 800.00 for one person, The Bus is very convenient and reached earlier as per schedule. It was rainy season. Drizling rainfal in Hubli. Took a hotel near to last stop of VRL stop(Laventern Road) , Hotel "Swathi ", they charged around Rs 1400.00, but we feel its not worth of it. I think "Ananth Residency" looks much good than this, but anyways I am not sure as we haven't experienced there. And any auto to take to such Hotels would cost around Rs 40.00 (may be bit un-normal rates) But the auto-wala has given a good link to Taxi driver - Basava Raj (M:+91 9035513421), he is too good. He took 6.5 per KM with rs 200.00 driver bartha.
Gokarna is around 200 kms from Hubli. I payed around 2,600.00 for up and down trip on the day(28th July 2012). I think I could have got little bit good rate than this ie., rs 6 per KM, but I readily agreed without much bargain, becoz I believe paying the money with bargain would n't get good treatment from others. Whatever the extra payment that we give is worth of getting any other humanitarian services from them (though not expecting anything from others). Fortunately few people like Basava Raj has provided such services to me :-)
I believe any place in this world has its own importance, a big reason for its existence. Every place is a created by God. We only visit sacred places or tourist spots for refreshing from our daily routine which would give more power to do our duty. People believe that, anyone suffering from difficulties like Job threat etc., visiting Gokarna would resolve this issue with the blessings of Lord Ganesha and Lord Ishwara, as the King of Demons great Ravana's plan to take away the Atma Linga got Fixed deeply into this Earth at this place.
Devotees believe that Gokarna derives its name from the legend in which Lord Shiva emerged from the ear of a cow.
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It is said that there are many hidden aashram's deep inside the caves, where there are many God-relaized saints live-in for ages in these caves.
We also visited Om-Beach which is very nearer to this punya kshetra. It is called Om-Beach because the beach is in the shape of OM:
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When Brahma, The Creator planned to start the creation of this Universe, He requested Lord Shiva to help Him in the creation, and Lord said he will come after penance, and went into deep meditation at this Om-Beach place. Brahma waited for many years, and since Lord has not returned, Brahma started the creation of this World. Learning this, Lord was very anguish and try to come out of the tiny hole which is Cow's Hear - "Govu-Karna" taking his original form. Cow has requested Lord not to come at once, which would harm Her ear, so he came as a tiny particle and saved Cow's ear (Universal Mother).
We visited the Lord afternoon, so temple people has not allowed us to touch the Lord's Atma Lingam, they said, if we had come early morninng like 7:00 AM, we might have chance to touch the Linga.
Below are the Pics of Lord Shiva's Om Beach and some of the important temples near this location.
Our Next Plight is to goto Sri Yukteswarji’s Shrine at Puri Karar Ashram who is Icon for GnanaAvtar, where we planned our child’s Aksharabyasam.
We visited the Lord afternoon, so temple people has not allowed us to touch the Lord's Atma Lingam, they said, if we had come early morninng like 7:00 AM, we might have chance to touch the Linga.
Below are the Pics of Lord Shiva's Om Beach and some of the important temples near this location.
Now the problem we are facing is that, we didn’t got the Train Tickets confirmed (18048 – Amaravati Express from Vascodigama to Howrah). Alternatively we don’t have any other trains in this route. There seems to have very less connectivity from Hubli to other parts of India. We searched Bus ticket, but there’s no such facility in this route. The bottom line is to say that, no tourister would travel from this place to Puri. I feel this is one of the Odd plan that I made in my mind. Taxi Driver demanded rs 10,000.00 till Vijayawada Via Hyderabad, and from there catching any train which is major junction to reach Bhubaneshwar, which takes very hectic journey may be around 9 to 10 hrs to reach Vijaywada, and from Vijayawada till Bhubaneshwar another 24 hrs plus waiting time for Train, altogether going to Bhubaneshwar has only solution is to catch this train 18048, though it takes more than 24 hours this is the shortest and easiest way to go to Puri.
We paid rs 1500 to TC as he demanded to give confirmed Bearths though we had confirmed(Reserved Tickets, at Railway department and Not Online reservation)
Finally with all odds we reached Bhubaneshwar by 6:00 PM, and puri is around 50 KMs from there. Taxi men demanded more than twice the amount ie., rs 1000, so I fixed in my mind to give only an amount of rs 600. Finally an auto-wala has agreed with this fare to me, I have no other choice to accept it.
We have taken a good hotel @2500 per day at Hotel Swimming near Light house, its bit costly but have to compromise for comforts. And the hotel mgr mohanty -9937444912We paid rs 1500 to TC as he demanded to give confirmed Bearths though we had confirmed(Reserved Tickets, at Railway department and Not Online reservation)
Finally with all odds we reached Bhubaneshwar by 6:00 PM, and puri is around 50 KMs from there. Taxi men demanded more than twice the amount ie., rs 1000, so I fixed in my mind to give only an amount of rs 600. Finally an auto-wala has agreed with this fare to me, I have no other choice to accept it.
And we had plans to return to Hyderabad, but again same story of un-conformed train tickets at out Hand. This time we changed our mind to break the journey from Bhubanmeshwar to Vizag and stay for a day at vizag and visit few interior beaches like "Yarada" which is very hidden beach and back waters. We visited once long back 5 years ago and the place was awesome, where there won't be any tides, just a calm ocean. But our Father-in-law has booked a flight ticket from Bhubaneshwar to Hyderabad without knowing our break journey plan. The Journey back to Hyderabad was very peaceful and happy.
We came at just below 2 hrs back to Hyderabad and to our home, Thanks a lot to Batlapenumarthy Suryanarayana and my co-brother Janumanchi Krishna Chaitanya for making our trip very happy ending.
BTW, to my surprise I learnt that, "Yarada Beach" which once we visited was closed for public (common) people, as there is some defence colony near-by has restricted this place for their private residential area purpose. This shows Lord's invicible guidance to our trip thru my Father-in-Law.
My Next Plan is to Visit "AntarVedi" which is situated at East Godavari District, near Rally Sri Mannarayana Kshetra.