TALAKAVERI & ITS GLORY

Even sages and saints are not disassociated, nor are the god men eliminated from their ken. The examples of the Ganga and Yamuna, originating in the lap of the highest Himalayas, going by the musical names Gangotri and Yamunotri, or Godavari at Triyambak, or Bhima at Bhimasankar etc. answer the point in question and serve the purpose well with their long and enchanting stories. The read like romances, but they are received with mixed feelings; for, the pur  religionist offer mental prayers on listening, and decide to avail the earliest opportunity to reach to offering obeisance and cleansing the gross and dross settling on their bodies, whereas the rationalist chucklingaudibly close the book uttering "Damn it". Well, tastes differ, and attitudes have their ends. As the Indian tradition considers the rivers as Goddesses, their beginning gains some more colour, and flashes extra light. And at each of the source there are sacred shrines dedicated to some deity or the other, other than the river Goddess. Hence pilgrimage is undertaken with a zeal unique and devotion emulating.

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