Hi,
Time for some travel tales.....while going to Almora, we crossed a place called Kainchi Dham...(Kainchi as in a scissors)....now this kainchi dham (KD) was a very big complex...our driver then told us a story.....
Long ago there was an ascetic who made KD his home......no one knew his name but he was popularly called as neem karouli (NK) baba....on a particular day each year there is a big feast organized at KD.....it so happened that one year large number of pilgrims turned up for the feast..the KD administration was unprepared to meet such a rush....hence the ghee (clarified butter) finished. The junior ascetics started fretting about how the feast could go on....they checked every place but there was no ghee..... they ultimately went to NK baba to ask him for a possible explanation that they could furnish before the pilgrims...
Instead, NK baba smiled and asked them to check the containers once again....they did....only to find the containers overflowing with ghee....
It is because of this incident that NK baba/ KD is a popular figure/name in the Kumaon hills.....
Till the next post
TC
Siddharth Tewari
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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