Kaziranga to Guwahati to Shillong - Day 10 - Page 10

C2C Kaziranga 2 Shillong Day - 10  (Page - 10)


We are in Kaziranga National Park. We stayed in one of the forest lodge which was arranged by one Anupam who works for a Government Lodge. 

Unfortunately the lodge where he works did not have accommodation and he helped us with the contact number and showed us this lodge.

Sincere thanks for the help & support. 

He also helped us with arranging the Jeep Safari. We also wanted to do Elephant Safari but since it was 1st January 2017 it was heavily crowded and all were booked in advance. We decided that Jeep Safari would be good too and we really enjoyed it.

We are about to enter the Kaziranga National Park. We can see quite a lot of wooden artifacts carved so nicely & artistically and displayed for sale.

 

We had finished with the Kaziranga National Park Jeep Safari and around 2 PM we left from Kaziranga Assam towards Kohima Nagaland.

We saw a sign board which pointed us towards Guwahati. My wife told me we should pay a visit to the most famous Temple 

The Kamakhya Temple also known as Kamrup-Kamakhya.

It is a temple dedicated to the mother goddess Kamakhya. It is one of the oldest of the 51 Shakti Pithas

Situated on the Nilachal Hill in western part of Guwahati city in Assam it is the main temple in a complex of individual temples dedicated to the ten Mahavidyas:  

Kali, Tara, Sodashi, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi and Kamala.

Among these, Tripurasundari, Matangi and Kamala reside inside the main temple whereas the other seven reside in individual temples.

It is an important pilgrimage destination for general Hindu and especially for Tantric worshipers.                                             

It is believed that Sati daughter of Daksha Prajapati wanted to marry Lord Shiva and against the wishes of her father she selects Lord Shiva as her husband and marries him.

Daksha never recognized Shiva whom he considered a heretic and uncivilized and did not invite him to any religious ceremonies.

Daksha wanted to conduct one of the biggest fire worship Yagna and invites almost every one except Shiva.

Sati gets to know about this and wanted to take her husband & visit the Yagna. Shiva tells his wife that it wouldn't be proper to visit as uninvited. Against his wish Sati goes to the Yagna. 

Shiva had forewarned her telling her that Daksha would insult him in front of every one. Sati out of love for her father goes and finds that Daksha insults her husband and speaks so filthy about him. Not able to tolerate this Sati curses Daksha her own father and jumps into the fire and kills herself. 

The death of Sati reahes Shiva who is so pained and gets enraged. He sends his lieutenant and right hand man Veerabhadra and his army who go to Daksha's kingdom and destroy and defeat Daksha & his army. 

Daksha's head is chopped off. Out of respect for his wife's father and Daksha being his father in-law Lord Shiva tells his army to find a first living creature and bring its head. The army find a goat and cut its head and bring it to Lord Shiva.

Lord Shiva revives Daksha by fixing the goat head and brings him back to life. 

Sati is not alive and Lord Shiva carries her corpse on his body and goes around aimlessly and dances the Ugra Tandava or dance of Destruction. The death & destruction of this dance of Lord Shiva creates uncontrollable consequences in the 3 worlds.

Lord Vishnu comes to the rescue. He realizes that Lord Shiva will not be contained by him in this state & decides to remove the corpse of Sati from Shiva. Separating the  dead Sati from a grieving Shiva  was not so easy. 

Lord Vishnu uses his celestial weapon the most powerful Sudharshan Chakra and manages to cut the body of Sati into 52 pieces.

It is believed by every one in India that all these parts of Sati Mother Goddesses and consort / wife of Shiva fell in different parts of the country.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Daksha_yajna

These places became known as Sakthi Pethas (Petha means place) place of Sakthi.

The Vagina of Sati fell at Kamakhya. This temple is also called

This is believed by all who come here and devotees worship the mother Goddess here as Kali Ma. 

More information can be read from this link below;

http://www.boldsky.com/yoga-spirituality/faith-mysticism/2013/kamakhya-temple-story-032807.html

It was 10.20 PM night by the time we left from the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati towards Shillong. 

We had to cover close to 100 KMs. It was a very tiring drive for me. I was pretty exhausted by the time we reached Shillong in Meghalaya at 2 AM of 1st January 2017.

We celebrated and welcomed the New Year 2017.

Finally we reached Shillong and found a hotel in the city at 2 AM and checked in. 

We all were very tired and exhausted after a long tiring drive. In the morning we were looking forward for the visit to Cheerapunji.

Starting Odometer Reading at Kaziranga on 31st December 2016 at 2.00 PM was 63675 KM.

Closing Odometer Reading at Shillong on 1st January 2017 early morning 2 AM was 63995 KM.

Total distance traveled from the hotel from Kaziranga National Park to the hotel in Shillong was 320 KMs.

To visit to HOME PAGE - 1 click on the link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.in/2016/12/chennai-2-cheerapunji-preview-page-1.html

To visit to the FIAT Palio Restoration & Refurbishment Page - 2 click on this link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.in/2016/12/restoration-rebirth-of-fiat-palio-16-sp.html

To visit to the CHENNAI TO KOLKATA Page - 3 click on this link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.in/2017/01/c2c-chennai-to-kolkata-day-1-stared-on.html

To visit to the KOLKATA TO BONGAIGAON Page - 4click on this link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.com/2017/01/kolkata-to-bongaigaon-day-4-page-4.html

To visit to the BONGAIGAON TO TEZPUR Page - 5 click on this link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.in/2017/01/bongaigaon-to-tezpur-day-5-page-5.html

To visit to the TEZPUR TO DIRANG Page - 6 click on this link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.in/2017/01/tezpur-to-dirang-day-6-page-6.html

To visit to the DIRANG - SELA PASS TAWANG & TEZPUR Page - 7 click on this link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.in/2017/01/dirang-to-sela-pass-tawang-back-to.html

To visit to the TEZPUR TO KOHIMA  Page - 8 click on this link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.in/2017/01/tezpur-to-kohima-day-8-page-8.html


To visit to the KOHIMA TO KAZIRANGA  Page - 9 click on this link below;

http://maheshnatarajan.blogspot.in/2017/01/kohima-to-kaziranga-day-9-page-9.html