Friday, June 5, 2009

Spiritual Pondicherry

Today here, in Pune, it rained liked anything…with lots of wind & heavy lightening… That reminded me my visit to Pondicherry, there to we had witnessed the same weather and that too in end of October. It was what they call ‘Retreating Monsoon’.

Whatever it is called doesn’t make any difference to me, because I cherished the visit of Pondicherry, or now it is called ‘PUDUCHERRY’, a union territory in southern India. It is a really amazing place & a must visit for all those who really want to enjoy the peace, in real spiritual sense.

Pondicherry is mainly famous for two things, one is for the ‘Samadhi’ of Maharshi Aurobindo and the other is its French Colony, about which people are a bit unaware. So the city, or I would like to use word ‘town’ for it, is famous for ‘Samadhi’ of Maharshi Aurobindo and the activities done by the Ashram trust over there.
Apart from that, Pondicherry has really nice beach, actually it is a bandstand type of place, not a proper beach like one we can have in Goa or some holiday spot like that. Here we tasted boiled peanuts. It was good to taste it once.

In short, Pondicherry is basically a quite place to get relaxed and enjoy holidays in real sense.

It doesn’t matter what u do after coming in Pondicherry, but I must say do visit Aurobindo Ashram as many time as u can and also there is a Ganesh Temple over there, a must visit.

4 comments:

  1. Most interesting thing about Ganesh Temple is an elephant, (Female one). She is always at the gate. A nice Payal are tied on its foot & people pay respect to her.
    One cant resist buying inscence sticks (Agarbatties) from Ashram run shops.
    There is a nice Icecream parlour near Ashram Guesthouse.

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  2. humm.. interesting!! nice description AK... i have never been there.. but after reading ur post i m interested to visit, specially arbindo ashram!

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  3. Didn't write about that Female Elephant because I don't know how long life do elephants have... લોકોને ખોટી આશાઓ બંધાઈ જાય...[;-)]

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  4. ખુબ સરસ બ્લોગ છે. પ્રવાસ વર્ણન પુરતો જ આ બ્લોગને સિમિત ના રાખતા વ્યાપ વધારવાનો પ્રયાસ કરજો. શુભેચ્છા સહ.
    જાગ્રત.

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