The World That I See - My View

Extracted from : http://www.sacredland.org/world_sites_pages/MtKailash.html Revered by four Asian religions comprising millions of people, Tibet’s Mount Kailash is certainly one of the world’s most sacred places. Pilgrims of the Buddhist, Hindu, Jain and Tibetan Bön faiths come to Kailash to complete ritual walks around the base of the mountain. But a half-century of Chinese rule has crippled religious and cultural expression in Tibet. After years of complete religious repression, during which thousands of monasteries were destroyed and pilgrimage was forbidden, Tibet now struggles with cultural dilution as Chinese immigrate to the region with the help of government incentives. Most recently, the Chinese government has stepped up efforts to make Kailash a tourist attraction, channeling money into building infrastructure in this remote region, but without regard for the sanctity of the place. According to the Dalai Lama: “Mount Kailash and its environs have a special symbolic value for ...

The entrance to Mana Village 3KM from Badrinath The direction to specific places in Badrinath . The interesting place is Vasudhara which is at 12,000 feet. The modern Monk :) You can see their warm heart from the smile and face .....wish the world is like this The local village view this is about 12 KM to the China border. The life was cool and people was nice and full of smile The hill view from the Mana Village River Saraswathi view from the Village. The river Alakananda that pass by the Badrinath temple

At Ashram of Mother Anandamayee outside Rishikesh , this lamp said to be lighted up by Mother Anandamayee in 1926 and still burning Mother Anandamayee's samadhi The gopuram of the temple/ashram Praying to ABSOLUTE in the form of fire, water, earth, air and ether, as the subtle form to experience GOD The GREAT GANGA Even a monkey knows the need of prayer The love offering The requirements of living .....even in spiritual world

The above photos was taken on the day we closed the rescue/recovery operations at the Genting Highlands landslide tragedy. We smelled a bad smell and walked on foot to trace the source as we spotted the area the JPA guys brought chain saw and start to cut the branches. I got my camera. The first photo was the moment the JPA guys were removing the branches and I spotted the lower part of the leg. The second picture was taken after the leg was removed by a JPA guy and placed it here to be taken by the police. I have to blur it to make it not too gross..sorry. Taken with my NIKON F601 FSLR.

(from a forwarded mail/originated from http://www.abunawaf.com/ ) The worst crime is the crime of war. You can only say the soldier dies of pride to defend the nation if the country is under attack, but what would you say if they attack a country for reason that they can't even justify before and after the war? And attacks because of ideology and political/economy reasons is crime and is not worth the death but gives you bundles of sins for killing many soldiers and civilians. For killing 1 person the civil court can sentence anyone to death, how about killing thousands of civilians and causing permanent disabilities to thousands more and all the sufferings that is caused because that 1 person thinks "this is the way we do" acan call for a war?. Place your self in this child's shoe and imagine the trauma that the child would have gone thru at that moment, not being able to protect the mother and safe her. Think moments by moments the thoughts and feelings and fear an...

Have you seen this masjid? See my earlier posting http://selians.blogspot.com/2006/05/beautiful-view.html The beauty of the nature. When a natural disaster happens we say "why GOD did this to us". Before that day comes an before that question is raised, can we ask our self, what are we doing to the creation of GOD? We go against the nature, we tamper the nature, we play GOD with nature .... so do we have the rights to say "why GOD did this to us"? The "Penang Bridge" at PJ

I can say generally Indians are more health conscious. I see in Gorgaon after lunch it is their norm to have a walk outside before going back to work. And i see in Bangalore the community garden is well made use of...early morning even on working days This a Murugan temple in Bangalore The shadow view of the temple's Gopuram (no image editing) clear view from the side This city has both side of life as the image speaks .... the camel as the transport and the modern life as you see in the billboard, both exist here. They do follow traffic rules in India. They stop for the RED traffic light! Amazing India! Bangalore as to what I see, is well organized and matured town. You can take an auto (the 3 wheeler) and tell where you want to go and safely reach the destination and you don't have to fight of the charging as every one use the non-tempered charging meter and you can trust it. But in Delhi/ Gurgaon /Chennai ... whew! You have to keep your eyes open and careful. They ...

This was the restaurant called MTR. It is a very old place. This is the crowd that is waiting to get in to the dining hall. You have to pay as per head count (Rps 80.00 per head) and they serve set lunch This is the 80% completed food (thali as tamil nadu people call it) after this as dessert we were given ice cream cup. The only thing that we can't ask for more are the Grape juice and the ice cream. Apart then that we can top up all the servings that we want...puri, rice, bisi bele bath, uh.... I am not a good eater .....you can see the menu below. And as we were coming out .....there we saw more crowd waiting for the tea time in 1 hours time.