“Sarovar” means “lake.” “Manas” means “mind” or “consciousness.” Manasarovar is a Lake of Consciousness. Energy-wise, I see a very deep connection between Manasarovar and Kailash. One is a lake, another is a mountain, but energy-wise, it is the same phenomenon. Kailash is a mountain of knowledge and knowing in Grace. There is nothing like that in Manasarovar. But at the same time, there is a sameness as to how your own energy system responds to this. The very idea behind a pilgrimage is fundamentally to subdue the sense of who you are. The idea of a trek or a mountaineering feat is always towards a sense of achievement to make yourself bigger than who you are, but the idea of a pilgrimage is to subdue yourself. It is to become nothing in the process of just walking and climbing and subjecting yourself to various arduous processes of nature. So these places of pilgrimage in the ancient past were always located in such places where a person has to go through a certain amount of physical, mental, and every kind of hardship to get there, so that in the process he becomes less than who he thinks he is right now. ~ Sadguru
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 05:14:09 +0000