Saturday, March 16, 2013

Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh

Amarkantak also know as Teertharaj or King of pilgrimages is situated in Madhya Pradesh.It is the birthplace of the Narmada and Son rivers.
Situated at a height of 3500 feet it is a natural hill station with wonderful weather.
We went on a guided tour of Amarkantak.
Our 1st stop was at the under construction ‘Shree Yantra Temple’. The Acharya 


Mandaleshwar of the Attal Akhada Sri Swami Shukdevanadji is constructing a Temple in the form of the Maha Meru Shri Yantra in Amarkantak for many years now. In the field of Tantra, the worship of Sri Vidya is considered to be an evolved, sophisticated, elite and mysterious system of worship of the supreme power in the form of the Divine Mother as the beautiful goddess, Tripura Sundari or Empress Beauty of the three Worlds. Sri Yantra is the instrument of this worship. In Sri Vidya worship, the system involves focusing of the entire energies of the universe. The Bindu or point in the Sri Yantra in one aspect signifies this process. This is the zenith of all methods of worship. Through this system of worship one may achieve almost anything that is desired.

Then we visited the source of the Son river. It was on a beautiful isolated spot on top of a hill.


A beautiful place to meditate.

Next was the source of the Narmada river. The history of this area goes back to the 8th 


century when Sankaracharya built a Surya Kund to specify the origin of Narmada river.He also installed the idol of Shiva at Pataleshwar in Amarkantak. All these temples are in the Nagara style of architecture.

A little distance from Gaumukh, the source of the Narmada, is Kapildhara, where the 


Narmada leaves Anuppur District and enters Dindori District by cascading more than 20 metres down a sheer basalt rock.

Amarkantak is a lovely peaceful hill station and a beautiful place to unwind. There are no luxury hotels there but reasonably priced clean decent accomodation apart from a few dharamshalas.

Getting there:

By Air: The nearest airport is 245 km away to Amarkantak at Jabalpur. Pre-paid taxi services are available from airport to Amarkantak.

By Train: The nearest railhead to Amarkantak is Pendra Road at a distance of 17 km from the heart of the city. Anuppur at distance of 48 km from Amarkantak is also convenient for the tourists. 


27 comments:

  1. Hari OM
    oooh, have to add this to my after-course wish list!

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  2. I have been there, Deepak...so, the pictures made me nostalgic. Great shots!!Thanks for sharing..

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  3. For long time I am longing to go here. Your post and pictures have reignited my desire. Sooner I am going to plan for this.
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  4. Amarkantak seems to be an interesting place to visit...The pics are very inviting.

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  5. Have heard of Narmada Parikrama. Did you come across anyone ? And what about your blog about Bhedaghat on a moonlit night !

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    1. Did not meet anyone doing the Narmada Parikrama. Next post on Bedaghat :)

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  6. i did not see this place till now.but hoping soon. nice place and pictures . wating for bhedaghat

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  7. Nice post. Never heard about this place.

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  8. Wow! Nice Place. What a Lovely Picture.
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  9. Nice reading particularlt about Shri Yantra temple. It did not exist when I visited the place many many years ago. There are many more temples like the one dedicated to Karna and there are some Shiv Lingas which you can rotate.

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  10. This was really fascinating with those pictures speaking more than the words!

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  11. Nice places. Esp., love the place where Narmada cascades down as a waterfalls!!!
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  12. very nice collection of Yantra temple. anc perfect click.. great job done
    thanks for sharing

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  13. Fascinating pictures - can you please let me know the itineraries you had - I am planning to go during winter time. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated. My email-id: kuntalm@gmail.com

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