VMYF received an offer from His Holiness Sri SARPV Chaturvedi Swamiji to visit Muktinath in Nepal. It is a 11 day tour starting from 22nd October to 1st Nov' 2010.
Three of VMYF members Sanjay, Narotham and Kishore participated in this auspicious spiritual tour on behalf of VMYF.
The tour was a once in a life time experience to us and to all other 300 odd members who comprised the total team , of them 101 members were from Hyderabad alone. Quite a few of the participants were known to us previously and the the tour promised to be quite an interesting one right from the beginning.
the Composition of the team was quite varied which included persons from industrialists to sanyasis to house wifes to retired employs to yoga instructors to singers to dramatists to actors to spiritualists to spiritual heads to children to quite a number of youth.
The tour provided not only the benefit of rare Darshana of Lord Muktinath, main one of the 108 Vaikuntas but also the benefit to interact and know a plethora of individuals from various backgrounds thus providing a unique and wholesome spiritual experience.
3 OF US AT SEC-BAD RAILWAY STATION.......
WITH PRABHUJI .... 
AT POKHRA IN NEPAL....
BATHING AT KRISHNA GANDHAKI RIVER....
ON OUR WAY TO BENI....
WITH A NEPALI GIRL AT BENI....
WE HAD TO CHANGE 5 BUSES AND TAKE A JEEP IN THE COURSE OF OUR JOURNEY THROUGH VERY DANGEROUS ROUTES IN THE LOFTY MOUNTAINS WITH NO TRACE OF ANY ROADS....
AFTER CROSSING BENI WE STOPPED TO BATH IN HOT SPRINGS....
NEAR HOT SPRINGS....
WE HAD A REFRESHING BATH....
AT GHASI....
HAD TO STOP AT GHASI TO CHANGE THE BUS....
REACHED JOMSOM, LAST BUT ONE STOP TO MUKTINATH....
NAROTHAM WITH NATIVES OF JOMSOM....
THE WATER WAS FREEZING COLD AT JOMSOM GANDHAKI RIVER....
WE VISITED A SMALL VILLAGE THINI NEAR JOMSOM....
ON THE WAY TO THINI....
POSING ON THE BRIDGE ON WAY TO THINI...
KISHORE WITH A CHILD AT THINI....
WE VISITED AN APPLE FARM TO TASTE FRESH APPLES....
THE GENEROUS OWNER OF THE FARM AT THINI ....
BACK TO JOMSOM....
KISHORE ON THE MOUNTAIN BIKE....
AT MUKTINATH AT LAST....BUT TOOOO COLD....
ON THE WAY TO VISIT THE SHRINE....
NAROTHAM RUNNING UNDER 108 WATER DHARAS FROM 108 VAIKUNTAS FLOWING AT MUKTINATH....
AN AUSPICIOUS SIGN AS WE BROKE OPEN OUR COCONUT TO OFFER TO THE LORD AT MUKTINATH....
THIS IS THE MUKTINATH SHRINE....THE 106th VAIKUNTA
A BHAGAWATA FROM OOTY WAS FILLED WITH DIVINE ECSTACY DURING THE SANKEERTAN AT MUKTINATH....
A BABA AT JWALAMAI SHRINE BESIDE MUKTINATH....
WE ARE ROLLING THE BUDDHIST CHAKRAS FOR LUCK
A RARE SIGHT FOR THE DEVOTEES TO SEE SRI CHATURVEDI SWAMI DO HIS ANUSTHANAM IN FRONT OF MUKTINATH SHRINE ....
IN FRONT OF AN EXQUISITE WATERFALL....
A VALLEY IN THE BACKGROUND....
STRIKING A POSE WHILE RETURNING BACK FROM MUKTINATH....
NEPALI WOMENS CAP....
WE TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE TIME WE GOT WHILE OUR BUS WAS BEING REPAIRED....
NAROTHAM TREKKING THE LANDSLIDE TO GET TO THE ROAD....
FEW OF US WITH SRI CHATURVEDI SWAMIJI....
SMILE AT LAST...
TOO COLD FOR COMFORT....
IT WAS A THRILL TO BE WITH SRI SWAMIJI....
STEALING A SNAP....
SWAMIJI OBLIGED EVERYONE....
SWAMIJI OBLIGING KISHORE WHO IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CAMERA....
NOW KISHORE'S TURN....
MR. GULLIBLE HAVING HIS RUDRAKSHAS EMPOWERED BY THE SELLER CUM SAINT....
WE RAN TO SRI GORAKHNATHS SHRINE AS WE GOT TIME BEFORE RETURNING TO HYD....
THE PLACE WHERE BHIMSEN ONE OF THE PANDAVAS RESTED WHEN HE CAME TO INVITE GURU GORAKHNATHJI TO THE RAJSUYA SACRIFICE DONE BY YUDHISTER BEFORE MAHABHARATHA WAR....
FINAL GOOD BYE OF THE SEASON TO GORAKHPUR ....
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