Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage is a journey unto oneSelf, the external journey is just a support to the internal journey. The internal journey is of discovering the Divinity within us and the external journey (whether it be a Pandharpur Vari or Kailash Manasarovar Yatra or Hajj or Narmada Parikrama,…) is one of helping us achieve the internal one.

Pilgrimage is a process of letting go of the illusion of separateness, that you are the body/mind. So long as you are prepared to let go of your attachments to the amusements of the body/mind – senses, relationships, ego and discover what lies beyond body/mind you are a pilgrim. You needn’t embark on any external journey since what you seek is not without but within.

As Sant Kabir puts it beautifully – “I felt in great need of a pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me”

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