Day 8 - 11 June 2006

We got up in the morning. The sun rising over the snow clad peak
of Nilakanta was an enchanting sight.

We had arranged for a priest to help us worship the Lord. He wanted
us to tell lies and cut the queue, etc. We told him that it was ok
with us to stand for a couple of hours in the queue, but we did
not want to spoil our spiritual mood by telling lies and fighting
with other righteous devotees. The queue moved fast. After a short
wait, we had a nice darshan of the Lord. We worshipped Him to our
hearts satisfaction. We blessed the Lord that He soon gets freed
from the corrupt pandas and priests.

We had a brunch and started trekking down. We reached Gauri Kund
in the early hours of the evening. We sprinkled water from Gauri
Kund on our heads and proceeded.

We went to the temple of Triyuginarayan. The tradition says that
this is where Shiva married Parvati. Lord Narayana was the priest
and the homa kund is being kept akhanda since then. We worshipped
the Lord ignoring the modern day priests, who tried hard to help
us lighten our purses.

On the way back, Sri Prabhakar shown us a temple with a golden
color dome like structure, on the distant slope of a mountain. 
He said that it was the place where Shiva cut of the head of
Ganesha, who did not let him in on the orders of Parvati. We
did not have time to visit that temple.

We reached Sri Srividhya Dhaam at Guptakashi at night fall. We
had prasad there and spent the night there.

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