Pilgrimage to South India, 13.04 – 03.05.2012
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Now the East really is getting closer! We invite you on a journey to South India from 16 April to 1 May 2012
” Those places on the planet that beckon and attract us, that keep little pieces of our soul, are connected with our transpersonal evolution.
To visit, to touch – in order to remember yourself and learn your innermost meanings, to gather yourself together, so as to understand fully and in depth your true values and your purpose. In the life of every person there are great resonances – which are also affinities: to an ethnic group, a culture, an image, a style – to some quality manifested in real contact, in experience or even in a dream: suddenly a person, inexplicably to themselves, understands the whole depth of what is happening – as if they had always known it.
The noosphere – that is what Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky called the place from which comes the knowledge that connects us with the whole historical heritage of humanity.
By paying attention to their resonances, a person can understand themselves better now.
TAMIL NADU AND KERALA
Delhi – Chennai (Madras) – Mahabalipuram – Tiruvannamalai – Auroville – Pondicherry – Chidambaram – Thanjavur – Tiruchirappalli – Madurai – Ooty – Periyar National Park (Thekkady) –.Kochi – Alappuzha – the quiet backwaters and Lake Vembanad – Amritapuri (the ashram of Amritanandamayi) – the Great Canal – Kollam – Varkala – Neyyar National Park – Kovalam – Trivandrum – Kanyakumari
The aims of the trip:
A journey through temples, spiritual centres and nature parks. An acquaintance with the tribes of the Blue Mountains, a touch of the ethnic and spiritual traditions of Indian culture. Greeting the sunrise over the Indian Ocean.
A brief description: Tamil Nadu – the cradle of the most ancient Dravidian culture.
Tamil Nadu is a land literally strewn with temples and priceless examples of ancient architecture. It is not for nothing that it is called “the Land of Temples” – by some estimates there are around 30,000 of them here. One of the most impressive temple dance arts of India arose here – Bharatanatyam. Here, as in Kerala, you can find national parks with wild animals and beautiful beaches that few Europeans visit, and the longest beach in the world – Marina.
Great mystics lived here (Sri Aurobindo and Ramana Maharshi).
Kerala: – “the Land of the Gods”
A blessed land – Here, where since the most ancient times the black and terrible Kali has been revered, where to this day lives the oldest Jewish community on the planet outside the Promised Land, where Muslims, Christians, Parsis and Jains live side by side. This is the land that gave the world the most ancient system of healing – Ayurveda, and the only national martial art – kalaripayattu. A land of fishermen and drovers, a land of saints and yogis, a land of palaces and temples, a land of national parks and quiet backwaters, golden beaches and wild jungle.
It is the birthplace of Sri Shankara and Amritanandamayi.
Pilgrimage to South India
The flight will be a direct one, Boryspil – Delhi
Registration and questions about the conditions of the stay and the budget of the journey, by phone:
+38-096-33-77-199
+83-095-463-11-79
+38-095-824-04-79
The jou****rney day by day:
Programme:
2 weeks:
- Meeting at Chennai airport and transfer to Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram)
- Visiting the cave temples of Mamallapuram and relaxing on the beach.
- Transfer to Tiruvannamalai – the temples and the ashram of Sri Ramana
- Maharshi, transfer to Aurobich
- A visit to Auroville – Sri Aurobindo’s utopian city
- A walk around Pondicherry and transfer to Chidambaram
- The temples of Chidambaram and Thanjavur
- Transfer to Trichy and a visit to the Sri Rangam temple complex
- Transfer to Madurai and a visit to the Meenakshi temple
- Rameswaram
- Transfer to Kanyakumari – the southern tip of India, ancient temples and Vivekananda’s island
- Greeting the sunrise over the ocean and transfer to Alleppey
- A boat trip on Lake Vembanad
- Transfer to Varkala beach, relaxation
- Transfer to Trivandrum and boarding the plane
3 weeks:
- Walks around Kochi and a Kathakali theatre performance
- Transfer to Ooty
18-19. Trekking through the villages of the Todas and other tribes of the Blue Mountains (Nilgiri) - Transfer to Thrissur
- The Thrissur Pooram festival22. Transfer to Trivandrum and boarding the plane
