Uttarakhand - “The Abode of Gods”

In the heart of these mighty mountains, touching Tibet, the roof of the world, in the north and the great Indo-Gangetic plain in the south, is an area, known, over the centuries as ‘Uttarakhand’, as a ‘paradise’ on earth and the most glorious temple of Nature. In magnificence and stupendous sublimity, there is no other mountainous region in the world that can be compared with the Uttarakhand Himalayas – a region under-laid by rich mineral deposits, still almost untouched, and a beauty that is unexcelled.

Here, which they designated “Dev Bhoomi”, came ancient Aryans to seek divine knowledge amidst the mighty ranges of the west, and towering peaks of the east, with their unparalleled beauty and grandeur that gave to doctrines and teachings equally mighty. Invested with scenery of indescribable grandeur, of a magnificent variety, this ‘Abode of God’ is studded with places of pilgrimage and shrines. Under the towering peaks were born pure thoughts in places unsullied by the selfish passions generated in the struggle for existence and self gratification.

Here, in the quest of the spirit, which remains the supreme effort of mankind, came the great teachers of mankind to receive in that rarified explaining the mysteries of Nature, long before science was able to explain them, the atomic theory, the theory of relativity and vibration. Maya and Tattavams, proclaimed telepathy long before the human brain was found to emit waves. Enclosed in the folds of the mighty ranges are memories of the great Gautam Buddha in search of salvation for mankind. Rishis – Vyas, Narada and Agastya seeking inspiration to carry down to struggling humanity, while from Europe came the great Pythagoras and Appolonious of the Tiana who certainly contacted these illumined men, when they came to India in search of wisdom. Along the winding valleys and gorges Guru Charaka gathered his precious healing herbs, their qualities also described by Huen Tsang in 1300 A.D. in his travelogue on the sojourn in India.