After
scaling many a Himalayan peak and standing near the holy cave temple
of Amarnath, if you just turn back and stretch your look, you indeed
feel delighted at the enormity of distance covered and kshetras
visited. World-renowned and centuries-old shrines, such as Somanath,
Dwaraka, Mathura, Ambaji, Pushkar, Mt. Abu, Kurukshetra, Amritsar
and Vaisno Devi situated in the North- Western States of Gujarat,
Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir parade before. your
mental eye and fill your whole being with joy inexplicable and
sublimity indescribable, to speak the truth. For, they have a
characteristics charisma of their own and enthral you at the catholicity
of spirit exuding from every grain of our Punya dharithri.
Religious
sects such as Saivism, Vaishnavism and Sakteism though bad
their full sway - exercising their mighty unlimited powers at
different periods of time, there prevailed religious tolerance
to such a commendable degree, standing as a monumental proof of the
spirit of assimilation of Hinduism.
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