Why visited religious place ?

[chinu]

Some of these places of pilgrimage are at extremely beautiful locations:
Badrinath
Kedarnath
Amarnath
Mani Mahesh

I visited Badrinath once.

 

[chinu]

Shri Hemkund Sahib (Sikh religion pilgrimage)
Was planning to visit this place. But, failed due to COVID-19.

 

[Aupmanyav]

You see, Chinu, it is a physical as well as emotional challenge. Think of times when people visited these places without airplanes, rail or road transport. It took months. Before starting on these journeys people had their last rights performed even while alive. Not all returned.

Yeah, the Gurudwara and the small old Lakshman temple (Red roof) are at a beautiful place. Lakshman, Lord Rama's younger brother, is supposed to have meditated here. Altitude 13,650 feet.
That means you were in India recently (you could have met me in Delhi )!

 

[chinu]

You see, Chinu, it is a physical as well as emotional challenge. Think of times when people visited these places without airplanes, rail or road transport. It took months. Before starting on these journeys people had their last rights performed even while alive. Not all returned.

That means you were in India recently (you could have met me in Delhi )!

Am already in India. I live in Bathinda, Punjab.

We use to visit Delhi 5-10 times in a year for our business needs.

Where do you live in Delhi ?

 

[Aupmanyav]

Maya Enclave, Hari Nagar / Jail Road, EB-16, the next time you visit Delhi. Send me a PM.

 

[chinu]

Lakshman, Lord Rama's younger brother

Friend, just saying Shri Lakshman ji is enough for me to understand for whom you are talking about.

I use to watch famous epics "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata" when I was kid. Now, I re-watched both the epics during COVID-19 lockdown-period. They are my favourite, and a lot to learn once again.

 

[chinu]

Maya Enclave, Hari Nagar / Jail Road, EB-16, the next time you visit Delhi. Send me a PM.

Do you have a nearest metro station ?

 

[oldbadger]

If, a non believer ever visited any religious place like Church, Mosque, Temple etc the first time in his/her life.

Why went there ?

I was in Liverpool in 2005 for three days and saw a sign which said that Liverpool Cathedral's High Tower was open to the public, so I visited and went to the top! I photographed the Mersey River for a panoramic photograph.

During the 1990's I visited St Paul's Cathedral in London and it's Tower was open to visitors, but it was closed to visitors not long afterwards, possibly because the stairs were definitely not designed for public safety.

I still do stop at churches when I'm out cycling, to rest in the church-yards, to read the very old grave stones and to look at the architecture.

God is in these places, but God is everywhere so it can't be just that.

 

[Vinayaka]

Some of these places of pilgrimage are at extremely beautiful locations:

Boss has always wanted to go to Kedarnath. If not this lifetime, then next. For architecture alone, of the ones I've visited, Thanjavur is first, Rameswaram second. The sheer size of the main temple of Tanjore is impressive, but the halls at Rameswaram are unworldly.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Tilak Nagar or Subhash Nagar (Tilqak Nagar is closer to my place).
Confusion because I did not know that you were in India and knew about the stories.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Yeah, Kedar is a beautiful place with the massifs behind the temple (all 20,000 feet, we do not consider any as a mountain unless it is at least 20,000 feet), and supposed to be place where Sankara was buried. But it has become very crowded now, too many pilgrims.
Kedarnath 22,700, Kedar Dome 22,400.

 

[exchemist]

Thank you for your reply.

What do you mean by saying.. main reason ? is there any additional reason too ?

Yes. They may have have beautiful architecture, or art, or good music, or they are historically or culturally important. There is a range of reasons to visit such buildings.

 

[chinu]

Yes. They may have have beautiful architecture, or art, or good music, or they are historically or culturally important. There is a range of reasons to visit such buildings.

Only benefits, No harms ?

 

[Aupmanyav]

Brahmins asking you for money/rituals, pickpockets, sometimes dacoits too (if you go to Chitrakoot, the place where Rama and Sita lived for sometime during their exile).

 

[chinu]

Brahmins asking you for money/rituals, pickpockets, sometimes dacoits too (if you go to Chitrakoot, the place where Rama and Sita lived for sometime during their exile).

But, they are everywhere, on railway stations, bus stops etc.

 

[ChristineM]

The word pictures were good though...

 

[exchemist]

Only benefits, No harms ?

Whut?

You asked what reasons people might have for visiting. We're not talking about "benefits" or "harms" at all, are we?