Spiritual Journeys to Incredible India, Spiritual India, Religious tours in India

			Spiritual Journeys to Incredible India “There are plenty of reasonable reasons for a spiritual seeker to go to India. You can go because it's the birthplace of four of the world's great spiritual traditions - Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh - and the home to a profusion of others. You can go because you want to experience the teachings of yoga and meditation in their original cultural context. You can go because it's the land of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Mahabharata; the place where the Buddha proclaimed the Four Noble Truths to a band of ascetics in a deer park, where Krishna taught dharma to Arjuna as he prepared to drive his chariot into battle, where Shiva gave the first hatha yoga teachings to the king of the fishes. You can go there because for thousands of years, its rishis and sages have devoted themselves to the pursuit of the question: Who Am I? - and because, in snowbound mountain caves and smoggy city ashrams, that question is still being asked.” “But ultimately, the reasonable reasons are not why you will go. You will go for unreasonable reasons - a picture of Kali in a library book that tumbles off the shelf as you're reaching for something else, a pair of luminous eyes in a dream, a longing that quivers at the edge of your consciousness like an unscratchable itch. The real reasons will probably not be the ones you tell your mother. They may not even be the ones you tell yourself. And you may not know what they are until long after your trip is over. In the end, each story is different. You will write your own.” From Here to Nirvana by Anne Cushman, Jerry Jones The home of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, this country has over the ages welcomed religions - Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Judaism and the Bahai faith - and has embraced them with as much enthusiasm as it has for its own home-grown faiths. A country which literally seems to subsist on religion, where incense and prayers, hymns and temples are as much a part of daily life as eating or drinking. • Hindu Sacred Sites • Buddhist Sacred Sites • Jain Sacred Sites • Sikh Sacred Sites • Islamic Sacred Sites