Mt. Kailash

Kailash (22028 Feet), considered to be a physical embodiment of the mythical Mt. Meru, is believed to be the most sacred mountain in the world.Kailasa and Mansarovar are as old as the creation. Everything emanates from there are finally return there. It is the centre of creation and the Universe. Kailash Parvat considered as the abode of LORD SHIVA and his divine consort PARVATHI which expounds the philosophy of PURUSHA and PRAKRITI or SHIVA and SHAKTI. Has anyone ever thought How long people have been coming to this sacred mountain? Answers are always lost in antiquity, before the dawn of Hinduism, Jainism or Buddhism. The cosmologies and origin myths of each of these religions speak of Kailash as the mythical Mt. Meru, the Axis Mundi, the center and birth place of the entire world. The mountain was already legendary before the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, were written. Today almost every one in the Universe is keen and have dream to visit Kailash and Mansarovar but the Journey is very difficult and is often dangerous too because of its extreme weather condition along with its remote location in far western Tibet where no buses, trains or planes goes. According to Hindu's Philosophy "Mt.Kailash to be the abode of Lord Shiva. Shiva is a character of apparent contradictions. He at once the Lord of Yoga and therefore the ultimate renunciate ascetic. According to legend, immortal Shiva lives atop Kailash where he spends his time practicing yogic austerities, making joyous love with his divine consort, Parvati. Hindus do not interpret Shiva's behaviors as contradictory however, but rather see in him a deity who has wisely integrated the extremes of human nature and thus transcended attachment to any particular, and limited, way of being. For a Hindu, to make the arduous pilgrimage to Kailash and have the darshan of Shiva's abode is to attain release from the clutches of ignorance and delusion."


Not only for Hindu Religion followers Kailash and Mansarovar are sacred to other religion follower as well. Followers of Bon, Tibet's pre-Buddhist, shamanistic religion, call the mountain Tise and believe it to be the seat of the Sky Goddess Sipaimen. Jains call the mountain Astapada and believe it to be the place where Rishaba (the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras attained liberation), where as Buddhists call the mountain Kang Rimpoche, the 'Precious One of Glacial Snow', and regard it as the dwelling place of Demchog and his consort, Dorje Phagmo.

The scriptures reiterate that that who take the holy dip at Manasarovar and carry out the Parikrama around Kailash are absolved of their sins through generations and is ab­sorbed into the Supreme Finality. To him, there is no rebirth, sorrows or joys: he is one with the ultimate - He is one with Shiva: He becomes the Shiva. SHIVOHAM. SHIVOHAM.