Namaste 🙏
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Today, I’m gonna tell you guys about my journey to the holy Manakamana Mata Temple in Gorkha, Nepal. Visiting this temple has been life changing for me. I’ve been moved so much by the peace and Tranquillity of this temple that this is gonna stay with me forever.
If you have been going through My Best blogs, you must have seen that to reach this beautiful temple. You have to board a cable car, which is the longest cable car of the country and you will reach at an elevation of about 1400 m from the sea level, when you arrive at your destination. The cable car is about 3 km long and it’s a whole lot of experience in itself.
But to your surprise, the real experience starts after you alight, the cable car. Then you have to go through this really beautiful and one of a kind marketplace built on top of the hill that leads you to this amazing temple.
You can go through My Best couple blogs. If you haven’t been already to get to know about the cable car and the Market. I have written long dedicated blogs for both of those experiences as well and I’ll be posting the links below for you guys to check out.
@parvkhuller/exploring-the-market-near-manakamana-temple-nepal
@parvkhuller/traveling-in-the-biggest-cable-line-of-nepal-9000ft-the-manakamana-cable-car
While we were crossing through the market, didn’t looked much crowded. It was like quite normal when we were crossing through the market, but as soon as we reached near the temple, now, we could see the long queue and waiting lines of people waiting for their turn to get inside of the temple.
This line went along the market for quite a bit before revolving a whole turn around the temple. It looked like it will easily take about half an hour of time if we stand in the queue.
In the photograph verb, you can see the really long cues with the little view of the temple in the background. This was a good opportunity for the people who had their shops near to the temple in the opposite direction of the cable car to maximise their sales as people were buying, the worship items mostly from them only.
They were several restaurants nearby to which we would love to try, but we had a really awesome lunch, just a few minutes back, so we didn’t had any capacity to eat anything. However, it’s not considered good to eat before visiting a temple and so to maintain the dignity also we didn’t eat anything.
From this point onwards, phones and cameras were not allowed. So this is going to be the last photograph that I’m gonna post before getting inside of the temple and the very next photograph is the one that I took when I came out of the temple after waiting in line for about 20 to 25 minutes.
As my grandmother is a handicap, so she got a handicapped entry pass to the temple which my grandfather also utilised as one person was allowed with a handicap person, so I stayed in line and waited for my turn while they completed their Darshan.
Now let me tell you guys about my experience of visiting this place. My experience was incomparable to anything experience before while waiting for my turn, I felt the amount of peace that was in comparable to anything I’ve experienced before. They were bells all along the way while entering the temple and everyone was ringing those bells, so for the time being, I was in the queue, all I heard was the sound of bells of different frequencies.
Whenever sometimes, I think about it now, I usually get goosebumps and it really moves me. There was very something special about the vibe of this temple that cannot be expressed in words. When I visited inside to do darshan, and when I knelt down to the Mata, the priest put his hand on my back, and that was the moment that I suddenly felt so peaceful that I remember that feeling till today.
This was a really positive experience for me, and ever since I went to this place, I try to remember Mata almost every day, and my life has changed for better. I’ve been praying almost daily since the day I visited this place, and there is something that really moved inside of me.
It’s been more than two months since I visited here, but these two months were really transformative for me. I felt really good about myself, and I progressed a lot.
This is a must visit place whenever you are visiting Nepal. Visiting here can be a bit challenging, but once you are here, this is worth visiting.
We came back in the cable car after spending about a couple of hours up at the temple premises. Now we had to move to Pokhra and there was another chapter that was waiting to be uncovered.
I’m gonna tell you guys about my journey ahead in the coming blogs.
Stay tuned.
Peace ☮️
