A trip to Northern India – Part 3 – Amritsar – The Golden Temple.
Hey Cupids,
Hope you all are doing well and enjoying the beautiful post
monsoon season.
Today we would like to continue and extend further our
sequel to “A trip to Northern India “
So after spending our leisure time at Jammu and enjoying a
wonderful nature’s paradise we “The backpackers” packed our rucksacks and
hopped on to a train that took us to a beautiful place in northwestern India
called “Amritsar” – meaning “pool of ambrosial nectar.”
When we reached Amritsar we knew which places we were about
to visit.
What we didn’t knew was the charm, elegance, a picturesque
temple surrounded by a lake and most importantly a simple undisturbed meditation abode that we
experienced.
We reached Amritsar at night and booked a hotel just a few
steps away from “The Golden Temple.”
A religious place – “The Golden Temple “was built by the
fourth Sikh Guru and is also knows as
“Shri Harmandir Sahib”.
Follow this link to know more about this mesmerizing temple.
After leaving our bags at the hotel we decided to visit this
temple at night and what we witnessed left us almost spellbound.
See these pictures yourself to get fascinated by the immense
beauty this temple offered.
This temple, laden with shining yellow metal truly reflects
and explains why the Ancient India was called
“The Golden Bird”.
This temple is made of masonry, marble, wood, gold, copper
and most importantly immense hard word that people during those times had put
in to build this amazing temple.
We will give an extra credit to this beautifully built
temple than other monuments because this temple was destroyed on numerous
occasions by looters and each time was rebuilt into a more beautiful monument
by Sikhs.
After all fame, fortune and power matter little in the light
of bravery, integrity and persistence.
Just flip these pics and get enchanted by this majestic
temple.
These pictures were taken by us at night and trust us
they are doing a very little justice to the beauty that this place offered.
Next day morning we all woke up with roosters
Cock-a-doodle-doo and several birds chirping as if telling us to get our butts
off the bed and get ready for another splendid and a nonpareil view of this
beautiful temple.
At dawn this wonderful marvel offered us a completely
different look than what we saw at night.
We visited Golden Temple during winters and in the morning
it was way chilling experience.
The feel of our bare feet touching the cool marble stones, sight of gorgeous fishes swimming in the lake, the calmness and tranquility that this place offered gave our eyes a soothing experience and we immediately realized that this place can be a perfect meditation retreat for us.
Just 10-15 minutes of meditation can clear your mind of all the negative thoughts and can recharge and rejuvenate you with vitality at its peak.
The feel of our bare feet touching the cool marble stones, sight of gorgeous fishes swimming in the lake, the calmness and tranquility that this place offered gave our eyes a soothing experience and we immediately realized that this place can be a perfect meditation retreat for us.
Just 10-15 minutes of meditation can clear your mind of all the negative thoughts and can recharge and rejuvenate you with vitality at its peak.
Go through the pics of this temple we took in the morning
and go through the complete post to know some unbelievable wonderful facts about
this temple.
Unbelievable
facts:
1) Besides being a temple, this religious place is world’s
largest free kitchen serving hot meals ( known as langar ) free of cost to all
the devotees and all the people who comes to visit this place. The meals are vegetarian
and full of nutrition.
2) This langar at the golden temple serves a massive number
of about 50,000 to 60,000 a day.
3) Usually majority of the people who work over here are
volunteers and with the help of some permanent people they ensure that food is
cooked on time and the quality and hygiene is maintained.
4) Anyone can work as volunteers over here.
5) The golden temple has more number of visitors than “The Taj
Mahal “ in an year.
6) British Government performed a series of continuous prayers
at Golden Temple during the first world war.
7) This temple is built for people hailing from any religion
and 40% people visiting this temple are non-Sikhs.
Sounds fascinating…..Isn’t it? So when are you visiting this
profound and wonderful place.
Stay connected as we write another post on “Top things to do
in Amritsar“.
Love,
Cupidtravellers.
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