Vrindavan: The city of God

Hello everyone,

In this post I will tell you about my visits of some of the temples of Vrindavan other than those which I covered on the first day of my trip.

First of all I visited to the temple of Pagal Baba.

Pagal Baba Mandir

This temple was built by a Baba who was famous by the name of Pagal Baba. The temple was solely the creation of his mind and he collected the money by slowly collecting it from different kinds of works that he did. He sacrificed his entire life for creating the temple. The temple has a total of nine floors including the ground floor. On each floor except the second one there are the idols of different gods. On second floor there is no idol, it is meant for the Parikrama of the temple.

After that I visit the famous temple of Rangaji. The temple is the largest of all in whole Vrindavan. It is spread in an area of 1.5 sq km such a large area.

Main gate of Rangaji Temple

This South Indian style temple was built by a wealth Seth of Mathura known as Seth Laxmi Chand Jain. in the year 1851. It was built by Seth to honour his Guru Shri Rangaji Maharaj when with the blessings of Govindji he was blessed with the son as suggested by his Guru.

He donated about 3640 Kg of Gold in the temple. This Gold has been utilized to create different knids of idols and domes of the temple.

The top of the dome of Temple made of Gold

The main temple is completely standing on pillars which counts to 282, no Girder no iron rod is placed in the pillars.

Temple pillars

There was an exhibition on the items that were made of Gold, these are taken out only once at the time of Brahmotsava, when a large Rath Yatra is carried out in whole of Vrindavan. The items are made of pure gold.

Surya Chakra

Hathi the royal sawari

There was also a Shishnaag on which according to Hindu beliefs Lord Vishnu sits, is also placed. That is made of pure silver.

Sheesh Naag

The temple is a purely divine place for a devotee. I spent few hours in the temple but still not fulfilled with the divinity of the temple. It is a strong belief that if anyone wishes anything from pure heart, than his wish will surely be fulfilled, Govindji will not let anyone go empty handed.

This is one of the  few temples in India that still follows the outdated rule of not allowing foreigners to enter the temple. They can enter the outside perimeter of the temple but not enter the place where idols of Gods are kept.

After this I went to the main temple of Vrindavan, which is known as Banke Bihari Mandir. The temple is situated in the main market of Vrindavan in a very conjusted area. Inside photography is totally banned, so I could not take the photographs of the temple from inside.

Banke-Bihari Temple

I reached the temple when aarti was about to begin in half an hour. The temple atmosphere was very much religious at that time. The aarti continued for about half an hour and then I stayed there for some more time as the atmosphere felt me like too energetic and like all my wishes have been fulfilled.

Banke-bihari means Krishna, the Supreme enjoyer. This temple was built in 1864. The deity of Banke Bihari was discovered in Nidhuvana by Swami Haridasa, known for his devotional bhajans  who was the guru of famous musician Tansen.

After this I went to the temple of Maata Vaishno Devi which is situated just at the beginning of Mathura Vrindavan road. Here too the Inside Photography was restricted.

Maata Vaishno Devi

The idol of Maata Vaishno devi is so much big that it is visible on the road to the Mandir. I was so much impressed by the idol that could not stop myself from visiting the temple. The temple is actually a small model to the yaatra of Vaishno Devi which is one of the religious places of Hindus. There are similar kind of mountains, caves and allover complete experience that one experiences in Vaishno devi. The yaatra there looks like is very small, but in fact it took us over an hour to complete the yaatra, and all the temples present there. The temple was a masterpiece of art and culture. It is created in such a manner that every one is attracted towards it and one cannot stop himself from visiting the temple. Not Only Vaishno maata but idols of Lord Rama and Krishna are also idolized there. The temple has a sense of divinity in itself. The time I spent there felt me like a fortunate person who got an opportunity to see maata vaishno devi.

That's all for this trip. I hope you like it.

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