Hey man
i'm goin home.Finally.
My exams finished on the 7
th of June,n after that a friend n i went to a place called
Shirdi.It's supposed to be a holy place of a man called
Sai Baba.The temple to him was
HUGE, n the Queue out there was unbelievable!!!!!I mean we reached there at 4 in the morning,after having taken a luxury bus from the station at 11:30 PM. We reached there around 4 in the morning, then were shuttled to the temple.And, at 5 in the morning,the queue (if it was straightened out) would have measured at least a mile or two long!!!!!!I was wondering for how long the people at the front of the line were waiting!!!
Anyway,the line started moving(
atlast!!!!,i thought),and the
Aarti(the ceremonies that are performed upon opening the temple for the day)was performed.It was an awe inspiring sight!!!
I mean the statue to
Sai baba was at least 6feet tall,in a sitting
pos'n.The priests first took of the cloth draped around it, then washed the statue,the sanctum
sanctorum around it,all the time chanting prayers(they sounded like gibberish to me,but i suppose that it has a meaning,or they wouldn't do it,would they?) Anyway after that we went outside to look for our shoes,but found that we had come out from some other gate than the one we went in.So we started
lookin for it,
n found it around half an hour later.
time is now around 7AM,and i was feeling very sleepy,but my friend was wide awake.
He suggested that we go to Shani
Signapuri, another holy place about 50 to 60 kilometers
away.I assented, so we went to see if we cud get a bus there.Turned out that a family was
goin there,so we we asked them for a lift.
One of the most amazing things about the place is that
None of the houses, shops and the other places have doors or shutters!!!! I mean that's so
amazin!!in this day n age,wen thieves are breaking into every place, thee places
hav no doors!!!!!!!!
It's said that anyone who steals there will go mad and not be able to go out of the village!!!!
Over there, before going into the temple, we had to have a compulsory bath,n only then cud we go into the temple!!!!
Anyway this one was also impressive,but nowhere near the
Shirdi Sai baba temple.
The thing in this temple is that there are n priests in there, so u
hav to do the ceremonies yourself!!!!!!
A big change from the other temples,I must say!!
Now after that we went back to
Shirdi,reaching there around 3 in the afternoon.Then we went to see if there was a bus to
take us back to
Pune. Found one n bought a ticket for close to 200 bucks!!!
We reached
Pune around in the night.At th
is point we had been on the road for around 24 hours!!!!
Wen we reached
Pune,i went to my room in the hostel,somehow took off my clothes, had a bath,
then went off to sleep as soon as my head touched the pillow.
I was woken up by a phone call by the bloody idiots in the phone company at six in the morning the next day,calling me up to see if i wanted to download ringtones.I gave them all the choicest abuse i cud think of,n told'em to call up at a decent time,like around 12:30PM.
From then on,i partied the night away!!!!
Bye