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Amar Nath Yatra
One of the most
important events during July/ August is Amarnath
Yatra to the Holy Pilgrimage. This is an annual event when thousands of
Hindus from different corners of the Globe visit Amarnath caves. The
pilgrims trek from Pahalgam to these caves and worship the great ice Lingam.
Legend has it that Shiva recounted to Parvati the secret of creation in a
cave in Amarnath. Unknow to them, a pair of mating doves eavesdropped on
this conversation and having learned the secret, are reborn again and again,
and have made the cave their eternal abode.Many pilgrims report seeing the
doves-pair when they trek the ardous route to pay obeisance before the
ice-lingam (the phallic symbol of Shiva).
This is an
event you certainly will talk about for the rest of your life.
July is time for the annual Amarnath Yatra one of the most sacred and
popular pilgrimages to the holy snow-clad cave shrine of Lord Shiva in the
beautiful northern Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. Of all Hindu
pilgrimages, Amarnath situated at an altitude of 3,880 metres in the
southern Kashmir Himalayas is considered one of the holiest.
Darshan at the Holy Cave is generally open from early July
(Ashad Purnima) to early August (Sharvan Purnima).
In 2001, the pilgrimage started on July 4, and in its first week drew more
than 10,000 pilgrims for the darshan of the naturally-formed ice Shiva
Lingam at the holy cave shrine, according to official records. Since July 2
onwards, 3,500 pilgrims set off daily from the base camp in Jammu to
Amarnath. The yatra or pilgrimage that year concluded on August 4, the day
of the "Raksha Bandhan" festival