Meeting the Lord in Pushkar

One thing which was on my agenda list when I reached Pushkar was to see sun rise and sun set at the ‘Ghaat’. I will like to thank Team Google which helped me know the timings of it so that I have no chance of missing it.
7:14 it said that the sun will kiss the beautiful small town of Pushkar. After reading my book on 22nd night I set the alarm for 6:30, 6:31, 6:32 and 6:35 am.

The Ghaat was 5 minutes walk from my hotel room. With the first bell of my alarm, I was up.

I knew it will be cold outside so I wrapped myself in two t-shirts and a jacket, took my water bottle , camera and left the hotel.

When I reached Ghaat , there was already light but sun was yet to appear from a world behind the mountains. It felt like the King has sent the message that he is going to appear in the court.

A pundit Jee asked me to buy Prasaad before I entered the Ghaat, some of the shops were already open. But I did not buy any material offerings. I was there to meet an old friend and the only offering I had for him was my love.

Someone asked me to remove my shoes before getting down at the Ghaat. Humans consider it as a taboo if you enter religious places with your shoes. If I think logically to this then this particular custom must have started so that the dirt from outside should not enter the house of lord but we humans as fool will take a bath in the same pond and leave our dirt or in fact offer our dirt to the God. Funny, isnt it ?

As I was waiting for the kind in his court, I had other guests in the court as well, some waiting intentionally and some didn’t even know that they are going to be part of a special moment.

I had company of a man who was taking bath in the pond and was enchanting some Mantras which I could not understand. Another Saadhu was coming out of this temple and he was not wearing any clothes, I do not know what we call them but there are devotees of Shiva who have stopped wearing clothes and apply ash on their bodies. There were tourists , some clicking selfies and some looking for pundits , some excited about the place and some shouting at their children to be cautious. There was a non Indian family who was caressing a cow near them and the reason was not religious.

Other than human existence I had company of countless birds (pigeons, crows, sparrows, swans and others whom I have never been introduced before). Some birds were flying around in the court , some were hiding behind whatever shade they got. Some were eating the delicacies humans offered them.
In addition to the birds, I was accompanied by two dogs, one was talking too loud and a lot and the second sat patiently behind me.
Then there were trees and the water inside the pond which was waiting for their Lord. The mountain doors were protecting the court.
Even with so much presence there was solitude and peace within.
As sun was approaching the court slowly, his aura was being reflected on the mountains which made me fight the cold inside. I could feel the warmth inside and then there was the first glimpse of the Lord who can’t be conquered, the one who is the Supreme, the one who feeds the universe, the one who lives inside everyone.
As he walked inside the court my eyes glittered with the awwness of his aura and my heart became one with him. Tears started falling from my eyes and smile became friends with my lips. I could have not asked anything else in that moment. I could see different color in its ring – yellow, red, orange, pink and many more which we humans are yet to find. I sat there and was just there in that moment.