Madurai, Rameshwaram, and Kanyakumari

Few months back I had been to Kanyakumari (cape comarin), southern tip of India. Its a historical place. Swami Vivekananda Rock is there. He came here all the way from north east of India, and did meditation. He swam to the rock, which is in the ocean, in the middle of the night and did meditation just to get out of these worldly things.

First we went to Madurai. There is a temple Meenakshi. It is a very big temple - the biggest in the south. Indian sculpture is displayed in that temple. From Bangalore to Madurai over night journey by train, and from Madurai we went by road to Rameshwaram. It took 4 hours by road. There we visited a big Shiva temple. Inside the temple there are 21 wells, which contain water from rivers all over India. We are suppose to take bath from all the well water. The procedure is like this: there are people ready who pour water over our head. We ask one person to take the water from each well and pour it over our head. He started asked us to follow him. We did and he took us to the first well (I forgot the name). He asked us to stand near the well, so we did. He, with a bucket and rope, pulled the rope and the water poured over our head. One each. All our dresses were now wet. The next well he named and poured water over us. I went with my friends. My friend liked this, and she wanted one more bucket of water. The same thing was repeated for the next well and next and next so on all around the big temple! We did all the twenty one wells. In the end, he showed us to one place that is Brahmaganga. We are suppose to put water on ourselves. We did and thought that since this is water coming from all rivers all around India it might have some herbal effect, which is good for our health. We walked here and there until our Sarees were dry. Then we went inside the temple to have darshan of Lord Shiva. Afterwards, we came back to the lodging and had lunch and had good sleep.

Rameshwaram to Kanyakumari is around 2 hours  by road. Early in the morning we wanted to see sunrise from Kanyakumari. But that day it was cloudy, so we could not see that because by the time we saw the sun was up already. I was a bit disappointed, but to me the sunrise at Darjeeling is the best. That is my life time memory. Then, we came back to other shores. We were in the water for quite some time. My friend doesn't like to leave the beach. We named her Machali jal ki hai Rani (Fish, you are the Queen of the water). We went back to the lodge and got ready for a ferry ride to Vivekananda rock. Already, a big queue was there. Then, we were on the ferry. I was so peaceful on the rock even though we were surrounded by many people. The meditation hall where the echo "Om" is, makes us forget everything - even ourselves. We are in that divine energy of Om for a while! We came out all around water. One side of water was green, one side was blue and the other was little mud color. Any color anywhere, water is beautiful! I was watching the waves. It goes on and on like our lives. Goes on and on like our births. Bodies and relations we keep changing! My friend came to tell its time to go to another rock which has a statue of a Tamil philosopher. Here the ocean is roaring as if the philosopher wants to tell some thing to the mob.