First thing that I want to state is that, this is not Vaishno Devi Temple of Katra, this is situated in the borderline of Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad.
I was then in Radhanpur. For every piece of luxury that we intended to buy, we used to come down to Ahmedabad. On the highway, we came across this temple. Every time we used to look forward to its sight as because if the temple is in vicinity that means our destination is not far. But never it happened that we could stop buy and enter.
Then during my son’s B’day my parents came down to Radhanpur. There is nothing much to see in Radhanpur, so on the day of their return I planned for a on the way stop overs. So we started out early morning from home, drove from Radhanpur to Gandhinagar. Their flight was in the afternoon, we had ample time in hand. So I suggested why not visit “Vaishno Devi”?
Actually, my husband and my father both had the chance of visiting the Katra’s “Vaishno Mata”. So I thought, don’t know whether in this life I’ll ever be able to climb that far so why not have a demo feel of the same?
Here as you can see in the photo, replica has been aimed at. Its like a round and round climb on bare foot. At times you need to wait in line. Then finally when we reached the top, there in front of us was a cave opening where we had to bend our back and splash – splash through water and enter into dark. My son instantly started crying aloud and with his small body, did his best to pull us away from that place. So we came to the side and were totally at loss what to do! We climbed this far now darshan beena kiye chale jayenge? Then there was a pujari pandit who was watching us for some time, he came over and said don’t worry come through the VIP gate. So there we were, thanks to my son his wails saved us from the “follow the line ….through the dark …..all bent with a kid – Ordial”.
And darshan to jo ache hua ki kya batayun, janam safal ho gaya bhai. He handed me over a coin with mata’s photo engraved on it and said “keep it in your tijori” (which I did).
I Had a wonderful experience.
