After two successive sleepless
train-borne nights, if one had to wake up so early that one is ready to be
road-borne by 5.30 a.m., it is a tough start, to say the least. If one was ready and eager to leave by the
designated time and had to find another vehicle and a driver as the one
supposed to turn up, did not, one knew what kind of day was in store. This was the beginning of the Day 1 of our
Karnataka Pilgrimage recently.
We wanted to cover two places and pray
at the temples and reach another temple town by the evening. The one who planned it out for us had spent a
decade in the Western Ghats , and specifically
told me that the course of the journey and the serenity in the temples would
compete with each other for the resultant peace of mind and the bliss of the
soul.
