I was fortunatee and highly lucky to be granted an interview with this true Himalayan mystic who resides at the heights of 10500 ft in the untouched, pristine holy divine place of Bhavishya Badri Dham. Initially, when I approached Swamiji he was reluctant to even speak to us, leave aside the camera. But by his divine grace, he finally agreed to grant an audience. He spoke on various topics from life in the Himalayas, to the survival of Yogis in harsh geographical conditions. Medicinal herbs
— With Italian subtitles
A film by George Aistov — a monk, a philosopher and a traveler. Its the first movie of the «Following in the footsteps of the Vedic civilization». and it was shot in the Himalayas. The main heroes are Monk (Swami Avadhut), Scientist (Sahadev Prabhu) and Pilgrim (Ajita Krishna Prabhu). Together with the shooting team they went through the Himalayas to speak with the sages and to visit such holy places as the sources of Ganges and Saraswati rivers. They also met teachers of different yoga systems. And its all intertwined with the Vedic stories about local Deities, personal talks of the search for the Truth as well as historical references and breathtaking mountain views.
Nowhere in the Alpine mountains are water, forest and rocks as precipitous, rock faces as vertical as in the Gesäuse National Park, Europe’s largest canyon. “Gesäuse” is a name derived from the rushing noise of the water, the soughing wind that echoes up to the peaks of the north faces of this unique region – home to the myth of the mountain. When the sun rises and ushers in a magnificent day, the Gesäuse projects a perfect image of a mountain. However, in bad weather, the Gesäuse’s walls reflect a scary phenomenon as the speed of the inflowing airmass multiplies. Adverse weather conditions can thus convert the Gesäuse into inferno. Michael Schlamberger, Austria’s most renowned nature filmmaker internationally, listened to the rushing whitewater of the river Enns and conquered the sheer rock walls, chasing eagles and chamois in passing.
It is said that Lord Caitanya’s secret weapon is prasadam, or vegetarian food offered to the Supreme Lord. It’s no longer a secret in Poland, however, as we distributed 160,000 plates of prasadam in Krsna’s Village of Peace at the recent Woodstock festival, now known as the Pol’and’Rock festival. We cooked, offered and distributed 160,000 full plates of prasadam in 5 days to the people attending the event. We prepared over 50 tons of foodstuffs! Two hundred devotees worked in shifts around the clock in 7 different large kitchens. Prasadam is tasty, nourishing and purifying. Our hearts were completely satisfied introducing the wonderful world of Krsna consciousness to the people in this way.
After visiting Yavat, where Radharani lived for some time, we walked to Ter Kadamba, a sacred place where Rupa Goswami did bhajan 500 years ago. Mother Sitala spoke on the pastimes of Rupa Goswami and Bada Haridas prabhu led us in singing the glories of the Six Goswamis. It was our final parikrama of Kartika, and one of the best as well.
For our first parikrama we went to Kamyavan and had darshan of Vrinda-Devi, the beautiful reddish coloured Deity worshipped by Srila Rupa Goswami 500 years ago. In the courtyard of her temple we discussed many of Radha and Krsna’s pastimes, as well as Maharaja Yudhisthira’s answers to Yamaraja’s 10 questions that took place at nearby Dharma-kunda. The kirtans led by Bada Haridas prabhu were especially sweet in that most auspicious atmosphere.
Just in case if you missed watching any episode of our Uttarakhand Garhwal region — Char Dham yatra, i would suggest you to refer to our playlist and see them in series, other wise you may miss continuity.
In the last episode you saw we reached Badrinath Dham and did night stay at a camp near the temple.
In this episode you saw that we went to Mana village which is at a distance of 4 km from Badrinath Dham, spent half a day there, then we went to Shri Badrinath Dham, there after we started for Gurudwara Gobind Ghat.
Details of places visited by us, as shown in the video with additional information is given below for your ready reference.
Himalayan Camping Point: This is the place where we had our breakfast, they operate camps for night stay. This is 1 km before Mana village.
Following are the food items we had at this place, these food items are of Rongpa community which is part of Bhotia community, they are residents of Mana and NIti villey.
Bhumla (Plain rice seasoned with shahi jeera)
Kwakla (Sunder Kala handmade noodles seasoned with koch local herbs)
Price: 150 per person breakfast
Tent: 1000 for double bed
Address: 3 km away from Shri Badrinath Dham.
Location: tinyurl.com/y3wjurmk
Mob: 7579017763
9411391979
Mana Village: Though this place is so near to Badrinath Dham that you should not miss going to Mana village, ideally spend a day there and if you are short of time, atleast half a day.
Ganesh Gufa: This is the Gufa where Lord Ganesh sat down and wrote the Epic Mahabharata.
All the places in Mana village are near to each other, but yes you will have to walk down 1 or 2 km with in the village, you will love the scenic views from the village and will see the village as well.
Vyas Gufa: You must visit this cave, more than 5k years old, you will get the opportunity to learn about Maharishi Ved Vyas, Pandit ji, there is very knowledgeable he tries to explain about the things in detail to visitors of the Gufa ( cave).
You will have to trek for 3 km to reach this place, Though it is steep but if you walk down with less halts you can reach there in one hours time…. This place is near Shri Badrinath Temple.
Tribe Nation Badrinath: This is the address and contact number of the camp, where we stayed over night.
Chandu
Tent: Rs. 2000 for double bed
Mob: 7467016669
9997084168
Address: Badrinath, Uttarakhand 246422
Location: tinyurl.com/yy7zkswf
Hanuman Chatti: This is a popular and historic temple of Lord Hanuman, you should halt at this place.
Watch Prayagraj (Allahabad) Video: I mentioned in this video that you can go check out our Prayagraj video for sangam. This place was earlier known as Allahabad. Link of video is given below.
Hope you enjoyed watching this episode on our journey from Mana village to Gurudwara Gobind Ghat.
Though we mentioned in the video that next day we will go to Gurudwara Shri Hemkunt Sahib but we could not go there next day.
Reason- we were there on 1st June and that was the day of opening, there were many yatri’s there plus there was risk of glacier melting as well…
Gurudwara management requested Yatri’s to stay back for one or two days and then go there…
We decided to go to Auli and then come back… You will see Yatra of Shri Hemkunt sahib in episodes to come.
For your information: Yatra for Shri Hemkunt Sahib starts from Guduwara Gobind Ghat, you can go there on your vehcile then from there you have to travel 13 km… out of which 4 km you can go on shared jeep then from there 9 km trek to Gurdwara Gobind Dham.
You should look at staying at Gurudwara Gobind Dham or at some near by hotel at Gobind Dham next day you have to trek 6 km to go to Shri Hemkunt Sahib then come back to Gobind Dham. Since oxygen level at Shri Hemkunt Sahib is low, so people are not allowed to stay back there.
For more detailed information about yatra of Shri Hemkunt Sahib, pl. See the episode of the same.
The beautiful deity of Gopinath was discovered at Vamsivat in Vrindavan 500 years ago by Madhu Pandit and Paramananda Bhattacarya. Madhu Pandit served Gopinath with great love and devotion for many years. Centuries later Gopinath was moved to Jaipur where He has been worshipped along with Srimati Radharani ever since. The temple is popular with the people of Jaipur, who come together daily to chant Radha Gopinath’s glories. Our parikrama party eagerly visits the temple each Kartika.
Это история про село Большой Куналей, которое недавно, в июле этого года, официально признали «Самой красивой деревней России». Б.Куналей находится в Бурятии, за Байкалом, в очень красивых местах. В селе проживают потомки старообрядцев, выселенных сюда из Подмосковья, 260-270 лет назад, после Церковного раскола и последующих репрессий. В Бурятии они освоили заброшенные болотистые земли, умудрились не поссориться с коренным населением, кочевыми бурятами, а в советское время — несмотря на жестокие репрессии — тоже выжили, выстояли и даже вывели новообразованный колхоз в миллионеры. www.currenttime.tv/a/29470392.html
0:00 Intro
00:14 Soi Cowboy
14:16 Sukhumvit road and outside Thermae
20:30 new Bar complex at Sukhumvit soi 7: Nana Plaza @7
Another Saturday weekend night spent between Asok and Nana. Have a look at many night scenes in Bangkok.
There are not many customers at the bars or along the streets in general. I walk along Sukumvit and soi Cowboy.
The new bar complex at Sukhumvit soi 7 (named Nana Plaza @7) seems to have more people inviting you for a drink and some customers playing pool.
Soi Cowboy has some people in the open air bars but the gogo looks kinda empty inside.
Without any tourists, it seems things are far from going back to normal.
Prices are still high, so not many expats are going out to drink at Nana or Cowboy. It seems mostly only the more normal bars and clubs are preferred.