Mt. Kailash

TARGET
	Mt. Kailash Entering Shiva's Abode
	The Target is the inside of Mt. Kailash and immediate surroundings looking for a portal to the Inner Earth and historical drama of energy of the area.
	Hollow Earthers' View: India and into Tibet is seen as being built on a huge shelf, beneath it a great cavern of light, a realm of paradise beneath our feet. Where are the openings leading into this paradise, and who is the Lord of this realm? Mt. Kailash will reveal these secrets through the continual embrace of the magnificent mountain, long known as the crown abode of Lord Shiva. Dwell upon this place and see the many seekers who have entered and received the wisdom of Shiva.
	Mt. Kailash

METHODOLOGY	Gaze on maps and satellite images of Mt. Kailash getting a feel for the location, examining with your third eye Enter the vibration state and envision you are looking down on the surface from approx. 2 miles above Look for light energy spikes in and around the mountain, look for tunnel entrances, remain calm, serene. ask the Earth to help navigate you Ask Shiva for guidance and the saints who wish to share to the ardent seeker the secrets of this profound area.
DEITIES	Creating the Ritual to Enter the Portal is the First Step The definition of the word ‘deity’, is the word ‘doorway’. For the Inner Earth traveler to gain access to the particular geographic region they wish to enter, the study of the divine hierarchy of the area will assist the traveler to understand the surface matrix and the underlying properties for the native mythology. Creating the ritual to enter the portal is the first step. Repeat the ritual to Shiva until you sense the bridge into the area. Lake Manasarovar and the surrounding area has many secrets as well. Ritual to Shiva:
ORIGIN of QUEST	Long addressed as the Abode of Shiva on Planet Earth, this mountain has revealed its deepest secrets to but a few seekers pure in heart.
	Hindus believe that Goddess Parvati has taken the form of the Manasa Sarovar lake and that deliverance is assured for people taking a bath in Manasa Sarovar. It is believed that Gods come to bathe every morning in this lake between 3 to 5 am and this time is called 'Brahmamuhurta'. The word Manasa Sarovar is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Manas' which means mind & legend has it that Lord Brahma created this lake from his mind. Mount Kailash Mt. Kailash is most bewitching! Its beauty is over powering and from a spiritual point of view, it possesses a subtle magnetic vibration of a supremely high order. Mt. Kailash is considered to be the abode of Shiva and Parvathi, along with Devatas, Ganas, Yakshas, Yogis, Siddha purushas and Gandharvas. Mention of the Mt. Kailash Yatra is made in the Ramayana, Mahabharatha, Skanda Purana etc…. Kalidasa has mentioned about this holy Yatra in his Meghaduta. In the book ‘Yoga, Enlightenment and Perfection’ describing the thrilling spiritual experiences of Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Maha Swami - 35th Shankaracharya of Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham, the Swamiji himself has stated that the night he took Sanyasam at his thirteenth year, he had a dream. “I found myself on the amazingly scenic summit of a tall, Ice clad Mountain... Though the mountain was icy I felt no cold. In front of me, I saw a huge crystal Shiva linga... suddenly there was a great flash of light and from the linga Lord Shiva manifested. The lord had one face and two arms”. The hill referred in this dream is of course Kailash and the crystal Linga refers to the crystal mount which is again Mt. Kailash. He became a Jivanmukta (one liberated while alive). Very few get to even hear of such a state and after hearing about it a much smaller fraction can comprehend it. To understand such a mindset requires a dimentional change in the manner of attitudes. For example, is it not difficult to even conceive of actions that do not stem from selfishness? On the contrary, a delightful description of a Jivanmukta is a follows: " There dwell calm, great noble ones who move about effecting like the spring season, what is beneficial to people. Having themselves crossed the dreadful ocean of transmigratory existence, they without any motive, cause other persons to do the same" The scriptures abound in the description of a Jivanmukta's state and it is repeatedly emphasized that the attainment of Jivanmukti is the greatest of all achievements. Mt. Kailash has other names....Meru, Sumeru, Sushumna, Hemadri, Deva Parvatha, Gana Parvatha, Rajatadri, and Ratnasanu. It is the pillar of universe and provides an environment to forget the outer world and experience the full truth - the divine self, a blissful state. Mt. kailash's East face is filled with Crystal, West face is filled with Ruby, South face is Sapphire and North face is Gold. That is the reason it gets the name "Ratnasanu". Nobody has even attempted to climb this holy mountain. source: http://www.drsethufoundation.org/
	Hindus regard Manasarovar as a venerated lake. Lord Brahma, the creator of the universe planned the creation of this lake and hence known as Manasarovar or created by mind. The sacred Mt Kailash that stands near the lake in the north represents the Shiva's Lingam and holy lake as Yoni. Tibetans don’t hunt fishes as they consider it as their sacred aquatic animal. According to mythology Manasarovar and Mt Kailash possess many riches. It claims Mt Kailash as the home of Lord Shiva, always twinkling with jewellery. In fact many gold mines have been found in the North West corner of the lake. source: http://www.kailashtrips.com/kailash-arogya.html
stats	Mt. Kailash Elevation 6,638 m (21,778 ft) Location China (Tibet) Range Trans-Himalayas Prominence 1,319 m Coordinates 31°04′00″N, 81°18′45″E source: Wikipedia
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History

Both geography and mythology play roles in the sacred significance of Mount Kailash. At just over 22,000 feet, Kailash can’t compete with peaks in the nearby Himalayan range, which includes Mount Everest. Its grandeur lies not in its height but in its distinct shape—four sheer faces matching the cardinal points of the compass—and its solitary placement, free from neighboring mountains that might dwarf or obscure it. Kailash is regarded as the earthly manifestation of mythic Mount Meru, or Sumeru, the spiritual center of the universe in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain cosmology. This great mountain was believed to be the source of four life-giving rivers, and indeed, the Indus, Brahmaputra, Sutlej and Karnali, which is a major tributary of India’s sacred Ganges, begin in the area surrounding Kailash. To Tibetan Buddhists, Kailash is the abode of the tantric meditational deity Demchog. Hindus see Kailash as the throne of the great god Shiva, one of the most significant deities. Jains revere Kailash as the site at which their first prophet received enlightenment. And long before Buddhism took root in Tibet in the 7th century A.D., Kailash was venerated by the Bönpo, practitioners of the indigenous religion of the region.

Pilgrims journey to Kailash to complete a 32-mile ritual circumambulation. Most take one to three days to complete the circuit, although some devotees spend up to a month doing full body prostrations along the ground. All pilgrims respect the sacredness of the mountain by not climbing it. Along the route are monasteries and points of spiritual significance and ritual: natural stone carvings revered as footprints of the Buddha, rock formations representing mythological forms, places where pilgrims gather mementos and others where pilgrims leave behind offerings such as a lock of hair or a tooth. Kailash, which lies in the remote southwestern region of Tibet near the borders of India and Nepal, is far from any population centers and is not easily accessible. However, for most Buddhists and Hindus of Tibet and India, the journey to Kailash is the most important pilgrimage they can make.

From the 7th century, when Tibet began to emerge as a unified nation, the country enjoyed relative autonomy. However, in 1950, Communist China invaded Tibet. The Tibetan government, headed by the recently enthroned 14th Dalai Lama, was forced to sign an agreement for the “peaceful liberation” of Tibet or face further military action. In 1959, following a failed Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama fled to India and established a government in exile. At that time, the Hindu pilgrimage route to Kailash was closed. China abolished the Tibetan government and imposed societal changes based on Marxist principles. The situation worsened during China’s Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, when religious practice was forbidden and Chinese forces set about destroying Buddhist and Bön monasteries, including six at Mount Kailash. In the mid-1970s, China began to soften its stance and by the '80s, Tibetans had regained some religious freedom. Monasteries that had not been destroyed began to reopen and confiscated religious artifacts were returned. Indian pilgrimages to Kailash resumed, and in 1984, the area around Kailash officially opened to Western visitors. Nevertheless, incidence of human rights abuses and religious repression remain high and Tibet’s political situation is still volatile. More than 50 years after the so-called liberation of Tibet, more than 1.2 million Tibetans have died, tens of thousands more have been forced to flee the country, and more than 6,000 monasteries have been destroyed by Chinese forces.

good source on pilgrimages and preservation of Kailash: http://www.sacredland.org/world_sites_pages/MtKailash.html

In Hinduism

According to Hindu mythology, Shiva, the destroyer of evil and sorrow, resides at the summit of a legendary mountain named Kailāśā. This Kailāśā is regarded in many sects of Hinduism as paradise, the ultimate destination of souls and the spiritual center of the world.

Some traditions also aver that the mountain is Shiva's linga and Lake Manasarowar below is the yoni of His consort. According to one description [citation needed] found in the Puranas, Mount Kailash is the center of the world, its four faces are made of crystal, ruby, gold, and lapis lazuli. It is the pillar of the world; is 84,000 leagues high; is the center of the world mandala; and is located at the heart of six mountain ranges symbolizing a lotus. The four rivers flowing from Kailash then flow to the four quarters of the world and divide the world into four regions.

The largest and most important rock-cut temple at Ellora in Maharashtra is named after Mount Kailash. Many of its sculptures and reliefs depict episodes relating to Shiva and Parvati, including the demon Ravana's attempt to shake Mount Kailash.

In Buddhism

The Tantric Buddhists believe that Kailash is the home of the Buddha Demchok (also known as Demchog or Chakrasamvara)[1], who represents supreme bliss. It is said that Milarepa, champion of Tantric Buddhism, arrived in Tibet to challenge Naro-Bonchung, champion of the Bön religion of Tibet. The two magicians engaged in a terrifying sorcerous battle, but neither was able to gain a decisive advantage. Finally, it was agreed that whoever could reach the summit of Kailash most rapidly would be the victor. While Naro-Bonchung sat on a magic drum and soared up the slope, Milarepa's followers were dumbfounded to see him sitting still and meditating. Yet when Naro-Bonchung was nearly at the top, Milarepa suddenly moved into action and overtook him by riding on the rays of the sun, thus winning the contest and bringing Buddhism to Tibet.

[Note: There appears to be some confusion in the account above between the stories of Milarepa (Great Tibetan Yogi) and Padmasambahava (also known as Guru Rinpoche, or Precious Guru by the Tibetans), who is said to have brought Tantric Buddhism to Tibet.]

In Jainism

The Jains who refer to the Kailash as Mount Ashtapada believe the founder of their faith, Rishabhadeva attained Nirvana at this place.

In Bon faith

The Bön, the religion which predates Buddhism in Tibet, maintain that the entire mystical region and the Nine story Swastika Mountain is the seat of all Spiritual power.

source: Wikipedia

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Is there a hidden tunnel between the Kalisha Temple in the Ellora Caves near Aurangabad and Mt. Kaliash in Tibet?

Mt. Kailash....a great mass of black rock soaring to over 22,000 feet, Mt. Kailash has the unique distinction of being the world's most venerated holy place at the same time that it is the least visited. The supremely sacred site of four religions and billions of people, Kailash is seen by no more than a few thousand pilgrims each year. This curious fact is explained by the mountain's remote location in far western Tibet. No planes, trains or buses journey anywhere near the region and even with rugged over-land vehicles the journey still requires weeks of difficult, often dangerous travel. The weather, always cold, can be unexpectedly treacherous and pilgrims must carry all the supplies they will need for the entire journey.
How long have people been coming to this sacred mountain? The answers are lost in antiquity, before the dawn of Hinduism, Jainism or Buddhism. The cosmologies and origin myths of each of these religions speak of Kailash as the mythical Mt. Meru, the Axis Mundi, the center and birth place of the entire world. The mountain was already legendary before the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, were written. Indeed, Kailash is so deeply embedded in the myths of ancient Asia that it was perhaps a sacred place of another era, another civilization, now long gone and forgotten.
Hindus believe Mt.Kailash to be the abode of Lord Shiva. Like many of the Hindu gods, Shiva is a character of apparent contradictions. He at once the Lord of Yoga and therefore the ultimate renunciate ascetic, yet he is also the divine master of Tantra, the esoteric science that regards sexual union as the most perfect path to spiritual enlightenment. According to legend, immortal Shiva lives atop Kailash where he spends his time practicing yogic austerities, making joyous love with his divine consort, Parvati, and smoking ganja, the sacred herb known in the west as marijuana, Hindus do not interpret Shiva's behaviors as contradictory however, but rather see in him a deity who has wisely integrated the extremes of human nature and thus transcended attachment to any particular, and limited, way of being. For a Hindu, to make the arduous pilgrimage to Kailash and have the darshan (divine view) of Shiva's abode is to attain release from the clutches of ignorance and delusion.
Kailash is sacred to other religions as well. The Jains call the mountain Astapada and believe it to be the place where Rishaba, the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras attained liberation. Followers of Bon, Tibet's pre-Buddhist, shamanistic religion, call the mountain Tise and believe it to be the seat of the Sky Goddess Sipaimen. Additionally, Bon myths regard Tise as the sight of a legendary 12th century battle of sorcery between the Buddhist sage Milarepa and the Bon shaman Naro Bon-chung. Milarepa's defeat of the shaman displaced Bon as the primary religion of Tibet, firmly establishing Buddhism in its place. While the Buddha is believed to have magically visited Kailash in the 5th century BC, the religion of Buddhism only entered Tibet, via Nepal and India, in the 7th century AD. Tibetan Buddhists call the mountain Kang Rimpoche, the 'Precious One of Glacial Snow', and regard it as the dwelling place of Demchog (also known as Chakrasamvara) and his consort, Dorje Phagmo. Three hills rising near Kang Rimpoche are believed to be the homes of the the Bodhisatvas Manjushri, Vajrapani, and Avalokiteshvara.
Pilgrims to Kailash, after the difficult journey getting there, are then confronted with the equally arduous task of circumambulating the sacred peak. This walking around the mountain (clockwise for the Buddhists, counter-clockwise for Bon adherents) is known as a Kora, or Parikrama, and normally takes three days. In hopes of gaining extra merit or psychic powers however, some pilgrims will vary the tempo of their movement. A hardy few, practicing a secret breathing technique known as Lung-gom, will power themselves around the mountain in only one day. Others will take two to three weeks for the Kora by making full body prostrations the entire way. It is believed that a pilgrim who completes 108 journeys around the mountain is assured enlightenment. Most pilgrims to Kailash will also take a short plunge in the nearby, highly sacred (and very cold) Lake Manosaravar. The word 'manas' means mind or consciousness; the name Manosaravar means Lake of Consciousness and Enlightenment. Adjacent to Manosaravar is Rakas Tal or Rakshas, the Lake of Demons. Pilgrimage to this great sacred mountain and these two magical lakes is a life changing experience and an opportunity to view some of the most magical scenery on the entire planet.
Additional notes on Tibetan pilgrimage:
For Tibetans, pilgrimage refers to the journey from ignorance to enlightenment, from self-centeredness and materialistic preoccupations to a deep sense of the relativity and interconnectedness of all life. The Tibetan word for pilgrimage, neykhor, means "to circle around a sacred place," for the goal of pilgrimage is less to reach a particular destination than to transcend through inspired travel the attachments and habits of inattention that restrict awareness of a larger reality........By traveling to sacred sites, Tibetans are brought into living contact with the icons and energies of Tantric Buddhism. The neys, or sacred sites themselves, through their geological features and the narratives of transformation attached to them, continually remind pilgrims of the liberating power of the Tantric Buddhist tradition.......Over time pilgrimage guidebooks were written, giving instructions to pilgrims visiting the holy sites and accounts of their history and significance. These guidebooks, neyigs, empowered Tibet and its people with a sacred geography, a narrated vision of the world ordered and transformed through Buddhist magic and metaphysics.
Kelly, Thomas and Carroll Dunham and Ian Baker; Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life; Abbeville Press; New York; 1993

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Mt. Kailash 2nd Journey

Evening March 19, 2007

To Shaman Guide: Around quarter to 9pm I felt your vibe and saw Mt Kailash in front of me, it was cold full of snow and ice and a strong wind blowing (like outside here) with the blue sky behind it.

I settle in at 10:10 and wait.

I am looking now over a mountain range, the Tibet mountains, and I am feeling an expanse that is vast, I am very fragile but yet full of power. A human entering a dynasty of past lives, obligations, with a stillness of heart. Whatever happens is pure of dignity. This place is noble, holy, greatness personified in the profile of God’s power on the face of the Earth.

My goal – to find out what exists at the heart of Mt. Kailash, what pulls people here for their inner peace, what is the inner geological resonance. Are there Chambers for the Immortals inside?

I now rest on the area of Mt. Kailash, instantly I see my Shaman Guide standing on the crest with a white fur hat and boots. I realize that now I will enter the mountain alone and thank my guide for energizing the passage here.

I can not say in great detail what I experienced, as this was a ‘soft’ drop. A checking out of the area, as it were.

I had two experiences which came firm to my mind 1) Shiva’s Chamber, quite deep, directly below at the base of the mountain. And a tunnel passage that goes through the mountain range, of which 3 chambers or centers were experienced from my subterranean horizon of vision, going into other mountains. If one were to take a cross section of the mountains these three centers would be slightly up from the tunnel path, for reasons of safety, water level. I see one main tunnel, no shoot offs.

The Shiva Chamber was very powerful, and full of artifacts, jewels perhaps. I am seeing it covered with dust for centuries, reddish brown. It appears to be from an Imperial age, or a great age of exaltation and then sorrow. This Chamber is a bridge to the Absolute in many ways.

This morning March 20, 2007

Entered the altered state, and saw looking at the Goddess Kali peering at me sitting on a Himalayan mountain. She is using two feathers waving on embers of a fire, she has on a shawl with blue drops of light falling off it. Her long pointed fingernails have black spirals (symbol for portal) on them, one fingernail has the first letters to a book written. I am sensing a dark impenetrable zone, but also keys – the immortal vein will be opened once I understand what it is that Kali is trying to tell me or exercise. I am sensing that Shiva has something to do here, as they are working together in a divine alchemical covenant, which stretches through these mountains.

Much to see. My Shaman Guide and I talk about leaving pieces of ourselves in the mountains that we are guided back to whereby…we are walking in other places as well as here in our homes.

Greg