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The Ashtapad Initiative
A. K. Verma
The Kailash Mystique Kailash has been the most ancient pilgrimage site for reverential worship since the advent of mankind on this planet. No other mountain in the recorded history has drawn humanity from diverse cultural backgrounds and geographies as this mountain, which is geologically also much older than the rest of Himalayas which seperate India and Tibet. The Hindus in India today, a highly evolved race of native Indians which were probably the descendents of aliens from the distant constellation of Sapta Rishi (Ursa Major) which once populated the Indian subcontinent. It is unscientific (based on DNA tests) to accept that the Hindu race and culture were migrants from Central Asia or Europe as western historians would like us to believe (theory of a colonial era) of the invasion of Indian Dravidians by the Aryan race. Aryans and Dravidians (those among the Aryans proficient in Vedas/Tantras) are essentially the native Indians. Even a century earlier this theory was debunked by Swami Vivekananda in several of his lectures across the globe. Buddhism like Jainism saw Buddha following the footsteps of the Munis of yore for his enlightenment and attained Nirvan. Pre-Buddhist Bons in Tibet, like Hindus, Jains and Buddhists elsewhere held Kailash as the only link between the earth and the transcendental or divine realm of divine and semi-divine beings. For the Hindus it is the seat of Shiva (transcendental or divine consciousness) and Shakti (the power of Shiva) and is the prototypical Meru (Sri Yantra) in the Tantras. For the Jains this represents the Ashtapad and is the connecting link between the divine realm, the earthly realm and the nether worlds. In Tibetan iconography, Demchok and Dorje Phagmo in eternal union are resident on Kailash and is believed to be the mystical Shambhala by the Bons (likewise the Hindus believe it to be yanganj or Siddhashrama). For the Buddhists, this represents the Buddha along with all the Bodhisatt was seated in trance. This convergence of ideas regarding the sanctity of the mountain and its associations also point to their common origin. A circumambulation of this holy mountain is believed to connect the earthly being to the divine realms and is thus a very important ritual from the spiritual point of view as the human ascends in his evolution from temporal to divine status. All seers and mystics of Indian and Tibetan origin from time immemorial are known to have connected to this holy mountain.
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| SR No. | 009860 |
| Book Title | Ashtapad Maha Tirth 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Rajnikant Shah, Others |
| Publisher | USA Jain Center America NY |
| Publication Year | 2012 |
| Total Pages | 532 |
| Language | Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 26 MB |