Char Dham Yatra 2014

Chardham Yatra Packages

When asked about a pilgrimage to the ‘four divine abodes’, also called as ’Char Dham Yatra’, people who have even the slightest bit of religious inclination reply in the affirmative about touring these places.     Inclusive of all four: the Badrinath, Dwarka, Puri, and Rameswaram, the holy places described by Adi Shakaracharya, the Char Dham Yatra would mean travelling to three sites for Vaishnavs, one for Shaivs and another mixed one.

There are quite a few reasons why one ought to make a holy pilgrimage to the ‘Char Dham’, one of them  being; that in the lap of Garhwal Himalayas, Adi Shankaracharya had left his bodily clothes forever, making this place even more popular and significant. It is said that during his last few hours a quintessential thought had dawned upon Adi Shankarcharya that he is going to be ONE with the Lord, purest of the pure, with the inner most Atman; that he is the nectar of the oceans of eternal bliss and would prevail forever. Therefore the importance of this place can never be negated. This is the very reason why these places of divine worship are also called as the ‘Chota Char Dham’ or 'Smaller' Char Dham, or the Himalayan Char Dham of all-significant values. It is said that every person who has faith in the Hindu religion must visit the ‘Char Dham’ at least once in their lifetimes. Seated in the Himalayas these four holy abodes referred to as the ‘Chota Char Dham’ include: Badrinath dham, Kedarnath dham, Gangotri dham and Yamunotri dham located at the foot hills of the great Himalayan mountain ranges. Just to distinguish between the ones situated in the Himalayas and the other ones the term ‘Chota Char Dhams’ was being used.

If you want to pay a visit to all the four places viz., Badrinath, Jaganath, Rameswaram, and Dwarka the places where one can visit the holy temples, you are correct in making such a decision. Geographically, these four monasteries have their own reverence, like the Badrinath Temple (Badrinath) in North, Jaganath Temple (Puri) in the east, Dwarakadheesh Temple (Dwarka) in the west and Ramanathaswamy Temple (Rameswaram) in the South.

 

The episodic journey across these cardinal points that have a high measure of factual significance associated with them is very well regarded as a pleasure trip to those sacred places of regular worship by every Hindu, whosoever wants to get wish fulfillment. These places ought to be visited at least once, as per the faith of the people. For all the people who are in tune with the times these holy destinations that comprise of the ‘Char Dham’ travel, the touring begins from eastwards - Puri, moving around in the clockwise route in a demeanor characteristically pursued for alluring encirclement to Hindu temples. The beauty of the places lies in the fact that the ‘Char Dham’ completes ‘perfect square’ with Badrinath along with Rameswaram positioned on the same longitude and Dwarka (old) and Puri positioned on the same latitude, referring to the outermost northern, eastern, western, and southern points of India, just before the  coastlines get changed.

This realization makes one feel the soothing touch as well as the tranquility of these places of importance in a person’s life of bliss, making most people revisit ‘Char Dham’.  Each year these places get flooded with lakhs of devotes turning up for paying their respects and getting blessed in this manner.