Thursday, December 9, 2010

One with the Universe - The Infinity, Oneness & Grand Unified Field

A few months back, I wrote my experience in which I felt One with the entire Universe. I narrated my entire experience here and even wrote something that could scientifically prove my point. Today, after 6 months, I finally this Universal Oneness is no more a spiritual concept or an ideology. It is a PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.

Nassim Haramein, at the Nexus Conference in July 2010, Astrophysicist Nassim Haramein presents new concepts explaining how we are all interconnected and can access infinite knowledge. Finally, we have someone who has connected the bridge between Science and Spirituality. 

Related Article : One with the Universe

Nassim Haramein, an astrophysicist, at Nexus Conference in July 2010, explaining the science behind Universal Oneness, Infinity and Grand Unified Field.



 

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Ascension Crisis






Your personality and your soul are in a continual interaction through the medium of thoughts and intuition.

The question is – Are you aware of it?

If you are unaware of this interaction between your soul and your personality, then this communication will be perceived by your five sensory personality through the density of doubt, fear and awareness.

If you are aware of this interaction from your higher self, be receptive to it, as this is your soul’s guidance for its desires and purpose need to be accomplished.

If you are aware but are not receptive to it, the guidance must come through the density of physical events, sufferings and crisis.

If your personality chooses to remain unaware, the awareness will come through crisis.

Awareness first enters into our consciousness through crisis. When we are slightly apart from our own pure soul energy, a crisis develops within us.  When our personality is unaware, it denies the guidance of our higher self and denies the intuition or any other guiding mechanisms given to us, human beings.

In such cases, awareness will be sent through physical events in our life.

Awakening did not have to include this pattern of crisis as a part of evolution. The Divine Order states that our species would move into wholeness at some point in evolution but how it moved to that wholeness in the course of evolution is left to be determined by the choices we make of how to channelize energy within the Earth School. Pain and sufferings, as also, these patterns of crisis were never meant to be in the flow of our evolution. It is the choices that our species made that lead us to this way of learning. Doubt was created and chosen as the major teacher through human choice itself. Our species chose this way of learning. Therefore, the karmic patterns of fear and doubt were set into motion.

Awakening into the need to touch something more, to touch one's spiritual energy system, is now a well-worn path that includes the experience of being physically powerless in the materialism of the world, before the soul reaches to its genuine power. In other words, the awakening of the personality has come to require the loss of a mate, or the loss of a job, or the death of a loved one, the collapse of a business or anything that leaves us physically powerless and turn inwards.

We are coming to the end of a grand cycle, a one hundred and twenty five thousand year old cycle and this is the reason why these things, within this moment in our evolution, are happening NOW.



Whatever is happening right now is timely. It is at its perfect time because it came to us at a time when our species is evolving beyond the five-sensory personality into a multi sensory personality, beyond learning through five exploration of our physical world, through authentic power and assistance from our non-physical Guides. 

We must remember that our five sensory personality is neither positive nor negative. It is just a tool of the soul to experience human life as a natural part of incarnation. It must be remembered that everything you are experiencing, every molecule around you, every thought in your mind, every action, every physical event including crisis is just a part of your individual evolution upon Earth.

We must remember that a five sensory personality is neither positive nor negative. It is just a tool of the soul to experience human life as a natural part of incarnation. It must be remembered that everything you are experiencing, every molecule around you, every thought in your mind, every action, every physical event including crisis is just a part of your individual evolution upon Earth. All that you are experiencing right now is timely and perfect because it is a part of your human experience here. Your Soul is experiencing a human body and it is evolving.

By being mentally outside a crisis, you can observe yourself going through a crisis. Pay attention, where you go weak and which parts inside you needs the strength of Light. Know that, all you need is within you.

You are the master of yourself.

Observe the crisis by being mentally outside it. Be the observer of yourself and the situation your personality is in, how it reacts and what needs to be focussed on. When you become the observer, you are at peace inside, the crisis is outside you.
The crisis you are going through will release patterns of negativity, of doubt and fear, that are no longer necessary for who we are and what we are becoming. This perspective will support the choice to learn through Universal Love and wisdom.

Challenge your fears. Each time you feel negative, stop, acknowledge that you are, and discharge it consciously. Ask what you are feeling and what is at the root of it. Go for the root of it in that instant and as you work to pull the root, simultaneously look at the positive side of the same situation. Trust allows experience of bliss. When you trust that the Universe in each moment is providing for the needs of your soul, and that non-physical guidance is always available to you, you will leave aside the heavier frequencies of manipulation, protectiveness and fear. Remind yourself of the greater truth that there is something spiritually profound at work, that your life is no accident, that you are under contract.

Awakenness is a blissful state, not a painful one. It is blissful, fully balanced and lovingly harmonious. It is abundance of love for all creation. It is playful and it is all these things and so much more! It is the vertical path of clarity.

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
 - Buddha


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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Here it starts :

Whatever “we know”, as of today, as a part of world history, right from the origins of knowledge that there is something what we call Our Universe, its many different galaxies, infinite solar systems and myriad bright colored stars, of time and gravitational force, of all the inventions, right from wheel to the latest mega-machine, of all the discoveries of human and animal anatomy, of all kinds of inumerous sciences and countless technologies – is all a result of creation, processing and application of certain thoughts that came to a human brain and human brain is a result of billions of years of evolution of Our Earth and its very existence.

But that is not the point. It may be because that is an established fact.

I am not really trying to make a point here. But what started must have an end. This one has a brilliant conclusion too.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

DNA and Origins of Knowledge.



DNA is a single molecule with a double helix structure; it is two complementary versions of the same "text" wrapped around each other; this allows it to unwind and make copies of itself: twins! This twinning mechanism is at the heart of life since it began. Without it, one cell could not become two, and life would not exist. And, from one generation to the next, the DNA text can also be modified, so it allows both constancy and transformation. This means that beings can be the same and not the same. One of the mysteries is what drives the changes in the DNA text in evolution. DNA has apparently been around for billions of years in its current form in virtually all forms of life. The old theory—random accumulation of errors combined with natural selection—does not fully explain the data currently generated by genome sequencing. The question is wide open. The structure of DNA as we know it is made up of letters and thus has a specific text and language. You could say our bodies are made up of language, yet we assume that speech arises from the mind. How do we access this hidden language? By studying it. There are several roads to knowledge, including science and shamanism. The symbol of the Cosmic Serpent, the snake, is a central theme in my story, and in your research you discover that the snake forms a major part of the symbol-logy across most of the world’s traditions and religions. Why is there such a consistent system of natural symbols in the world? Is the world inherently symbolic?




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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Born To Be Wasted

Do you have a song in your mind that keeps playing itself over and over again? Do you hear the song and feel it relates to you since ages? Do you have a song that touches you to the depths that go beyond the depths of oceans? Do you feel an explosion inside you every time you listen that song? Do you feel that the song knew you even before you heard it the first time?

I have two such songs. One of them is 009 SoundSystem's - Born to be Wasted.







Born To Be Wasted Lyrics:

oh the beat's gonna bash gonna break it up
this car's goin' fast gonna speed it up
the night's not gonna last so let's keep it up
we were born to be wasted

oh the rock's not gonna stop so let's rip it up
the beats are gonna drop you can trip em' up
your mind is on fire but it's not enough
we were born to be wasted

this gun's blowin up it's just a warning shot
this plane's takin' off on a terror run
this night's gonna end like a missile drop
we were born to be wasted

baby out loud
knew that it would come to this
ain't worth livin
if u can't get your kicks

oh the rock's not gonna stop so let's rip it up
the beats are gonna drop you can trip em' up
your mind is on fire but it's not enough
we were born to be wasted

this gun's blowin up it's just a warning shot
this plane's takin' off on a terror run
this night's gonna end like a missile drop
we were born to be wasted x 4


When you find the song of your life, please share it with me in the comment box along with the link. I am game and finding the others...

☮ Peace ☮

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Thursday, July 1, 2010

One with the Universe!


Certain situations and few happenings since last one year have moved me in some way. If I look back to myself exactly one year back, I was a completely different person. Looking back to me, one year back and today, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that the two images are like oil and water. At times, I have been wondering (while writing this) should I post it on my blog?

(made up my mind)


I have always read about cosmic oneness and have happened to believe a lot of theories on cosmic oneness, its meaning and the meaning of life and I certainly don’t expect you to believe what I am about to write. And why I believe in it still remains a secret, all I can say is that I could “feel” the cosmic oneness and how everything in this universe is connected. My experience is probably the smallest fragment of this cosmic oneness theory, yet I want to express it, although an experience cannot be express in words I believe. It can be only felt and experienced. The reason behind expressing my feeling is that I want to know if there is anyone out there who felt the same at some point or someone who cannot agree more to this. Am I the only one?

On a beautiful dark morning, I was just looking outside my window. What I saw wasn’t just the usual roadside scene. I was watching at the world through just a window from my house. Cynical, right? I observed a group of IT employees who were waiting for their bus to arrive for a morning office pick-up, senior citizens sitting on a bench with opened newspapers covering their faces and kids waiting for their school bus. I observed one of the IT employees waving her hand continuously and it made me “think”. A man who was reading a newspaper “heard” the temple bells ringing. After few more minutes (in which he must have “thought”) – he went inside the temple and prayed. And while I was watching at the world through my window, I realized how every action (not necessarily physical) has an effect in this cosmic world.


The IT woman who waved her hand got my attention and affected my mind since I started thinking about what was she doing. Few people who were ringing bells of the temple affected the thought process of the man with newspaper and his thoughts made him visit the temple and pray. The kids affected my sub conscious mind and made me think of my younger sister who waits for her school bus every morning, back in my hometown. And when I told this to my friend, how his energies started thinking deeply about what I felt.

I said,
“So do you see how everything is connected? Every action of a person directly or indirectly affected some one else’s action/mind/thoughts/mood. And can you feel the infinity of this chain of matter affecting other matter?”

Our minds are programmed to ask for a scientific explanation behind everything. So I did not blame him when he asked me a scientific reason behind it. I am not much of a science person although I know the basics of physical sciences. I started thinking of an explanation, a scientific one. I knew what I thought did make sense but my mind tossed as I thought of some scientific words to describe the phenomenon of “everything is connected”.

After few minutes, this is what I said:
What I experienced was an infinite chain of matter, which is connected to each other, in which, every single action (not necessarily physical), affects the rest of the infinite chain of matter, directly or indirectly. And this exactly made me feel how the entire Universe is connected and the infinity of this chain of matter. Any kind of energy used by any matter affects the all the energies in the cosmic world.

This means that even when you are reading this right now your energies are affecting the giant ocean of energies in the entire Universe. When you are reading this right now, and using your energy to read this, your mind is working, your moods are changing and any person who talks to you after this, you might have a different perception about “talking” to him and that might definitely affect his thought process and the infinite chain goes on. On the contrary, this might not happen with you, but something else, try searching for a connection and you will find how everything is connected. All is One, indeed!


This experience has totally changed my perception about the Universe. When I talk of Universe now, I believe, it starts with me! The chain of matter starts with me. I should do good deeds for the mankind to make sure this chain does good too. My mind is at peace ever since I felt this phenomenon. But the curiosity still resides within me. Have you ever felt this way or am I the only One?


(Please share in your comments for this article as this is one if the most important articles I’ve ever written. Please feel free to criticize if you do not agree with my views. All is One!)


☮ Peace ☮


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Saturday, June 26, 2010

My Last Evening in Srinagar, Kashmir

The reason why I wasn’t writing about my last night in Srinagar, is the fact that I don’t want to recall it. I’m re-living my journey through my travelogue and every time I write it, a part of me is found travelling in the woods and mountains of Kashmir. I don’t want my journey to end this time, through my travelogue, but I have new things to write about too. So what makes me write this today? The sudden mood swing! Damn, I feel the same today, like I felt on the last night in Srinagar – yes, no matter how weird that sounds, the mood is what made me write this today. Crazy whims, I wonder!

May 18, 2010. 3.30pm: It was raining heavily the entire day in Srinagar and since I was aware of the last day, my wander lust just didn’t seem to have got enough of the place. I had read of Rozabal in one of the books by Osho and was curious to visit the shrine in the downtown Srinagar. Rozabal is a shrine in Srinagar where Jesus Christ is believed to have been buried. It is believed that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion and came to Kashmir, India, where he lived last years of his life and finally died in Srinagar, where he is believed to have been buried and have even left a bloodline in that region. When a friend of mine told me about the place and its directions the same morning, my curiosity was eating me up from within. I was told by many locals that it isn’t a safe place to go, but I blamed my itchy feet and went on to explore. The place seemed a lot difficult to find at first and when I did, it wasn’t much of a pleasant experience. I found kids, barely 8 years old, who were agitated to see me trespass their “territory”. I saw the shrine, closely and wondered whether all those stories about Jesus living in India were true. I made up my mind to research over it later. I read what is written on a board just above the shrine. Photography was strictly not allowed. I do not remember the lines as they are, but it did mean something that was sure to ignite fires of controversies. I would have to read a book and research more deeply to write anything about Rozabal. Many books like The Rozabal Line and The Lost Years of Jesus explain many related stories. I was just fulfilled enough to have been able to visit the most mysterious place known to me and moved on carrying a thousand thoughts in my mind.

May 18, 2010. 5.30pm: The typical woman inside me was yelling by now and wanted to make the most of shopping in Kashmir! It was undoubtedly the most beautiful evening of all –yes, I was being partial since it was my last evening by the Boulevard. The Dal Gate Road was full of street hawkers selling Kashmiri handicrafts made of Papier Mache. Every single artefact stands out with its vibrant explosion of Indian hues and intricate Mughal designs. I loved walking down the road aimlessly while the rest of the world around me continued to run. The sun didn’t wait to set, the shikaras didn’t stop floating and the shops didn’t stop selling. The world moved on every second as I walked aimlessly on the road, exploring each shop and trying to touch everything that caught my eye! I shopped like a total shopaholic with full-on bargaining power! The still waters of Dal Lake had began to reflect the street lights around, the house boats had began to gear up for another candle-lit dinner for the evening, the shikaras were carrying newly arrived tourists to their reserved house boats, as the sky turned dark. And I knew, as I leave, someone else like me would come here, explore the place, indulge in the slowness, ride horses up to 14,000 feet, listen to the sound of waters that the oar of shikara pushes, travel the less travelled roads that lead to Himalayas, discover true romance in the Mughal Gardens, watch the green carpets of Gulmarg, and simply live a part of their lives in the land of Kashmir.


I did not know whether the Kashmir euphoria was rising up within me or was the sadness of saying a final goodbye, faded my euphoria of the place. Whatever it would have been, it sure was one beautiful sad evening. I discovered that this place had moved me, in a way that I could never be the same again. I wanted to live the moment forever and never wanted to go back to where I belonged. Kashmir is a powerful beauty and it sure had cast a spell on me. It made me think beyond the commercial world. The spell it put on me had a name and I called it the spell of simplicity. I wanted to surrender myself to the euphoric Kashmir. I am still under the same spell and living in the afterglow.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Pahalgam Pictures






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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

KASHMIR EUPHORIA - Part Three (Sonmarg)




A month back, same date, same time, I was in the heaven and they call it Sonmarg in Kashmir. I’m amazed at how time passes when it’s not working in your favor. A month feels like a year without what I fell in love with – Kashmir. But time moves on, and so does life.

We left Sonmarg around 9.30am and on my way, I was listening to few songs that are really close to my heart. The journey till Sonmarg is so full of beauty; I couldn’t move my head a single time! The River Sindh defines a different shade of blue altogether and the flow of water sounds like a million waterfalls are hurling down from the heaven itself!






Just a few kilometers before Sonmarg, there is a small park by the roadside on the right. A perfect spot, to stop by, indulge and waste some time doing nothing is what this park offers. Located right on the shore of Sindh River, it gives you a perfect feel of what I call, closest to nature. The entrance of the park is a wooden bridge located on the River Sindh, look down once, I suggest, and you will feel the power of purity, I guarantee!




To be brutally honest, I never wanted to cross the bridge and let go of the feeling I had while on the bridge! The unexplainable feeling of standing on the bridge – overlooking the gigantic flow of water, the sound of which numbs your ears and the water that can freeze you inside out – was mind blowing. You can see the Himalayan range chasing the sky high heights all around you and I was lucky enough to see them snow-clad that morning! The Himalayas looked magnificent in white and looked picturesque every time I followed their height to reach to the peaks that kissed the clear blue sky.





I went inside the park and it reminded me of the pastures in Gulmarg. I felt like I was blindfolded with a green cloth, yet again, only this time, I was surrounded by snow clad mountains and pine trees that got me bewitched. I had never seen so many colors of nature at one place at the same time – the blue sky, kissed by White Mountains, the Green pine slopes, the Aqua Blue waters of Sindh, the multicolored stones in the river, the Brown wood tree barks and the endless stretches of green pastures inside the park! Holy God, for a moment, I was spellbound and open-mouthed!





We spent an hour or so in the park. A small café inside offers tea, coffee, and the Indian staple food – Maggi noodles! I recommend sheer indulgence inside the park, and I’m sure you know by now, what I mean by the indulgence, the slowness of it, so close to nature.




We reached Sonmarg in a short time. The moment I got down from the car, I breathed the first air of Sonmarg – the land of Gold! And trust me; it did feel as if the air is Gold! I know how weird that sounds, what matters is how it feels and not how it sounds – that’s the catch. I really cannot explain in words, how I felt by just looking around. I could never imagine a place on Earth that would put a spell on me, by just looking around it – Sonmarg confirms it.






It seemed like a pair of eyes wasn’t enough to look around the beauty, a pair of ears wasn’t enough to listen to the sound of wind and river water. Words felt short and few sensations I lost…Four directions and three dimensions weren’t enough for this place to exist, simply exist.



So, I am leaving you with only pictures of the land of Gold. Try looking at them from my eyes and leave in your response. I know, words will be a little difficult to find! A month later, I am still enchanted, popeyed and wonder-struck.



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Sonmarg Pictures






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Saturday, May 29, 2010

KASHMIR EUPHORIA – Part Two







Since it was raining in Srinagar, we had decided to take a daytrip to Gulmarg the next day. Located at a distance of about 52 kms from the city of Srinagar, this place offers the best of ice-adventure sports in the country. To mention a few facts about the place, Gulmarg offers the world’s highest golf course and is called “Golfer’s Paradise”. It is one of the fewest places in the world to have a “Gondola” (cable car) facility that can take you to a height of 10, 200 feet and that makes it one of the highest lift served ski resorts in the world. Gulmarg is often identified with a European climate and as its name suggests, Gulmarg is a valley of meadows filled with beautiful flowers like bluebells and daisies, to name a few.

With a spectacular view of natural beauty that knows only the color of green, one can see the snow-clad mountains in its backdrop. There is a Gondola station right at the bottom (which is at a height of 2650 feet too). One can climb up by the Gondola, which has two phases, and takes you to a height of 10, 200 feet. I was prepared for the heights that I was about to witness while sitting in a Gondola. But due to some technical problem, the Gondola was closed that day and I had to opt for horses instead! As a sucker for horse riding, I was pretty excited about the journey, until I realized that the road isn’t how it looks like! These horses can climb any heights and can take you to Ellahpatra or Illahpatri (correct me if I’m wrong, which I’m more than sure I am!), which is about 14,000 feet high, beyond which is the PoK province.

I started the horse ride, right from the parking lot of Gulmarg. The road for an hour was lovely. I felt like I was blindfolded with a green velvet cloth! All I could see was green. The meadows embellished with wild flowers that looked gold, seemed like God’s own way of painting on a beautiful canvas of Kashmir. The sun played a game, and won each time, as drizzling was always followed by some sunlight, resulting in rainbows! I enjoyed my horse ride, talking to my guide Anwar, clicking a million pictures on the way as my wanderlust seemed to ask for more. The stretches of pine and oak trees that promise to touch the clouds, would compel me to enter and get lost in my land of fantasies. The road ends at a point and the real climbing starts after an hour. Riding on the horses and climbing on those terrific slopes of Gulmarg, isn’t for the weak-hearted.

I, along with my horse, whom I didn’t call any, climbed rocks over rocks, and even crossed a couple of giant waterfalls. Every second was a thin line between life and death for an altophobic person like me and out of an explainable helplessness that comes with an explosion of adrenaline; I preferred looking at the mountains above me rather than watching the breathtaking views of those green and gold meadows that were now about 10,000 feet below me! The sun gave up and I soon realized that I’m witnessing a snowfall. Since it was my first time, I behaved like a kid, and no, I’m not writing about my first reaction!

It took us about three hours to reach the top which is about 14,000 feet high. By the time I reached there, the entire land was covered with thick snow. I was really tired after those long and deadly horse riding hours. So I just sat down, spent some time with myself, thinking and writing while sipping on steamy hot kashmiri kahwa that my guide managed to fetch at that height, played with the snow and tried my hand on ice-skiing. Gulmarg is one of the finest ice-skiing resorts in the world and offers great slopes for the beginners.

Climbing down was pretty much comfortable as I managed to catch the Gondola. The weather was clear and the technical errors were resolved. Within 15 minutes I climbed down the same distance for which it took 3 hours to climb up! Hands down technology! But you see the beauty? The experience of the horse ride while climbing was much more descriptive than that of the Gondola ride! Slowness will always hypnotize you and ask you to indulge and drink up the nature. It reminded me of the same slow motion of the oar of the shikara and the sound of water in the Dal Lake, and yes, that’s where I wanted to be the next moment! I missed the Boulevard Road in Srinagar and needed a long walk there, while watching the sun set.

But here are few do’s and don’ts about Gulmarg

  • Don’t opt for a horse ride, if you are very scared of heights and if you are weak hearted.
  • It is preferable to visit Gulmarg on a clear day, although the place changes its weather every five minutes!
  • It is better to eat some not-so-heavy yet filling food near the taxi parking lot, at the bottom. There are a few good cafes around it. It is better to hire sheep-wool trench coats and gum boots from these small shops.
  • Don’t forget to carry a bottle of water with you ‘cause at that height of 14,000 feet, you might not find a general store!
  • Talk to the locals and ask them questions, they are pretty good-looking. Then click loads of pictures and send them to me!!


Avanika.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

KASHMIR EUPHORIA - Part One





The moment I saw the first view of Kashmir valley, I had decided to write a travelogue of this journey to heaven. I tried writing it on my computer at first, but the words wouldn’t let me…and I switched to a journal and a pen. The land of Kashmir is as pure as a new born baby and it did not deserve the mechanical writing on a computer. I have no clue where to start from, the day one, the shikara on the Dal lake, the mesmerizing Kashmir-ki-Vaadiya, the playful waters of Lidder or my last night in Kashmir. All I know is that this place had moved me, struck me in a way that I could never come back to what I used to be, as I found my ends here.


The journey on way to Srinagar has its own charm, with sadhus and Shiva temples, on the roadside, hidden under the giant mountains, and the Chenab River flowing to meet her sea, giving a lively company all the way. I reached Srinagar in the evening, right at the dusk. This city shows you how the beauty and the beast can co-exist, at a time. You can see the serenity of Dal Lake reflecting the mountains that surround her on the left, and the fire in the eyes of the Indian armed forces on the right, every 100 meters, doing their best to protect the disputed province.


It was a rare rainy day in Srinagar, and I was taking a visit to all the Mughal Gardens right on the first day. The sound of water in those endless cascades, as they hurl down the aisle, the smell of red roses and the touch of bare feet on the fresh grasslands that touch infinity, did take me into a world called heaven. With 7 terraces and a stone channel for the running water in the centre, set in the backdrop of Pirpanjal and Zabarwan mountains, Nishat Bagh the Boulevard Road is the largest of all the Mughal Gardens and was built by Asif Khan, the elder brother of Noor Jehan. One can see the long stretches of land covered with carpets of greenery and the beautiful Dal lake right in front of the bountiful of flowers in the Nishat Bagh. The illimitable stretches of green grass and the watercourse down the cascades overlooking the Dal Lake make this the Garden of Pleasure. The Shalimar Bagh, an abode of love, a splendid garden that was built by Emperor Jehangir for his loving wife, Noor Jehan is undeniably romantic and undoubtedly a visual delight.


The clouds had invaded the sky high mountains and it had started drizzling again when I thought of cruising in the Dal Lake by the shikara. I really cannot think of an adjective to describe the experience of being in a shikara. Every time the oar pushes the water back, the sound of silence and its tranquility, asks you to slow down, slow down and indulge in the depths of silence. I took a 2-hour cruise in shikara and that allowed me to explore the floating gardens and small shops inside the Dal Lake. It still amazes me, to think of a whole new floating world inside the Dal Lake!



Avanika.


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