About The Book
About Author
Rajendra Wadhwa, the author of, ‘The Yogic Secrets of Mount Kailas’, dons many caps. A High court advocate by profession, since his childhood, he used to experience this feeling that Mount Kailas was beckoning him. At that time he was not sure whether it was a normal calling or it had some higher purpose hidden underneath. He was determined to explore Mount Kailas.
In 1997, he decided to undertake the much-desired journey to ‘Kailas Manasarovar’. He was quite fascinated by what he witnessed. He had made up his mind to take forward his ‘mission’. In 2004, at the age of 50, he did a Diploma in Yoga. His Yog Guru described some resemblance between Kailas and human body. He was intrigued by the fact that there was a connection between the White Mountain and yoga.
To investigate the matter further, he undertook the same journey in 2005 and 2009. Then he authored his first book in Hindi, ‘Kailas Parvat – Ek Yog Rahasya’.
Not yet satisfied with his efforts and to investigate the matter further, he embarked upon thins voyage by visiting Mount Kailas again in 2014, (a Horse year, which is a significant year and occurs after every 12 years as per Tibetan and Chinese beliefs).
As he attained new insight, he was inspired to write ‘The Yogic Secrets of Mount Kailas’ in English. Apart from being travel guides, these books reveal many hitherto unexplored secrets of Kailas. The description is terse and telling and is illustrated by hundreds of breathtaking pictures of the journey. The volume will as well uplift readers spiritually.
Contents
The Yogic Secrets Of Mount Kailas
| Part I | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Did you know…? | i |
| 2. | The Origin of Mount Kailas | 1 – 10 |
| 3. | An Auspicious Start | 11- 24 |
| 4. | Kailas Kora (Circumambulation) in Horse Year | 25 – 68 |
| 5. | Kailas from Asthapada | 69 |
| 6. | The Holy Lake Manasarovar | 70 – 86 |
| 7. | Panchanan Kailas | 87 |
| 8. | Flora & Fauna around Mount Kailas | 88 |
| 9. | Kailas-Manasarovar via Nepal | 89 – 99 |
| 10. | Kailas-Manasarovar by Air and through Trekking | 100 – 102 |
| 11. | Kailas-Manasarovar via Nathula Pass (Sikkim) India | 103 |
| 12. | Kailas-Manasarovar – other routes from India | 104 |
| Part II | ||
|---|---|---|
| 13. | Yog – An Introduction | 106 – 119 |
| 14. | Kailas as an inner image of Divinity | 120 – 123 |
| 15. | The Reality of Kailas | 124 |
| 16. | Yogic-Tattva (elements) in Mount Kailas | 125 – 130 |
| 17. | ENLIGHTENMENT (Through the mystery hidden in Divine Mountain) |
131 – 133 |
| 18. | Siva and Siva-Tattva | 134 – 136 |
| 19. | Spiritual Flight | 137 – 138 |
| 20. | The Significance of Mount Kailas | 139 – 141 |
| 21. | Planning for the Pilgrimage | 142 – 143 |
| 22. | Questions and Answers from Yog Guru | 144 – 145 |
| 23. | Map of Kailas-Manasarovar routes from India | 146 |
| 24. | Map of Kailas-Manasarovar Region | 147 |
| 25. | Map of Kailas Kora (Circumambulation Path) |
148 |
Kailas Prologue
The origin of creation is shrouded in mystery. The advent of the silvery Mount Kailas from earth’s crust was also not witnessed by human being. As per geological facts, Himalayas and silvery Mount Kailas, millions of years ago, lay under the tropical sea of Tethys and through some geological process the land arose to form mountains. Kailas and Manasarovar are as old as the creation itself. Mount Kailas is also called Swayambhu : ‘the self-created’.
The sacred mountain is the ‘Navel of the earth’ and ‘Axis Mundi’. Although its summit is of 22028 ft and cannot compete with other snowy peaks in the Himalayan range but its neighboring mountains cannot dwarf its beauty. The snowclad pyramid mountain is seated on lotus-shaped and its subordinate holy mountains – Ravana, Hanurnan, Padmasambhava, Manjushri, Vajradhara, Avalokiteswara, Jambeyang, Shavari & Norsing are as its vigilant sentinels.
Rising in Asia at Gangdise, Trans Himalaya, west Tibet, Mount Kailas has mythological, yogic and geographical significance. Mount Kailas has its other name Meru, Sumeru, Sushumna, Hemadri (golden mountain), Ratnasanu (jewel peak), Kamikachala (lotus mount), Amaradri, Deva Parvatha (summit of gods), Gana Parvatha, Rajatadri (silver mountain).
Four religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Bonpoism) approach sacred Mount Kailas to attain salvation. Several inquisitive people from other parts of world also visit it out of wonder and curiosity.
Hindu speaks of it as Siva’s throne who sits with his consort Goddess Parvati. Buddhist knows it as abode of Demchhog (God of asceticism and tantrism). He is always mutually interlocked with Dorje Phakmo the yum or divine consort. Jain considers it where there founder Tirthankaras (Saviours) Rishabanatha had dropped mortal frames, ascending to their final abode. And for Bonpo, it is Naro BonChung.
Mount Kailas is also a natural structure on the earth that holds within a great secret of human life. Different religions speaks in different ways but the Divine message encoded in Mount Kailas is – ‘KNOW THYSELF’