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There is enough and more written about Badrinath. Suffice to say, whether you are driven by faith, curiosity or just happen to be visiting it, you won’t come away disappointed! Several years after I visited Badrinath, I happened to read a commentary on the life and works of Adi Shankaracharya. The Metaphysical side of the treatise aside, it has a mention that Shankaracharya found the statue of Badrinarayan (the deity of Badrinath) submerged in the Alaknanda river. He retrieved the idol and installed it at the temple. The temple itself at that time was an abandoned Buddhist shrine, WHICH was the original Badrinath temple. Apparently, the idol was hidden in the river to protect against raiders. Shankaracharya was aware of this fact since there is a mention of the temple in the Skanda Puran and the Vishnu Puran. In the mid 30’s, British historians had dated the Ramayan to be around 2000 years old. Acharya Chandrashekharendra Saraswati, the then seer of the Kanchi mutth had famously congratulated them saying: ‘If you keep persevering, I am sure you will find the true age of the Ramayana’. Point is, the Purans predate the Ramayan by several centuries (if you believe Western historians) or millennia (if you believe Hindu mythology). Either ways, the Badrinath shrine is way older than what we’ve been told!…
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Date of experience: June 2020
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We visited here in Nov 2020. The place is good and the temple is beautiful. It has a Hot spring. Lot of shops around. Temple is closed in the noon for Bhog and reopns at 5pm. You can visit in the evening too. The place is lively with lot of shops and eateries. Places to visit are Charan Paduka. Mana village is the last village before Tibet border and is 3kms away form temple. In Mana, you can visit Vyas Gufa, Ganesh Gufa, Bheem Tal, Saraswathi falls & temple. Vasundhara falls is 5kms away & should be trekked.…
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Date of experience: November 2020
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This temple is one of CHOTA CHARDHAM YATRA as well as CHARDHAM YATRA. A HOLY PLACE & can be accacable by car from mid April to DIWALI. Performed TARPAN at MARKANDEO Kunda adjacent to the temple.
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Date of experience: November 2020
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Recently my mother and aunt visited Shri Badrinath Ji temple, as a part of their Chardham Yatra. It was a great experience for them. They had started in Delhi with a rental car. The gentleman Rahul Gupta, who was both their driver and guide for the tour was really helpful. His contact numbers are 7895149799, 8191905851. He was covid conscious and had conducted the tour by keeping in mind all the safety precautions, which actually helped my mother and aunt enjoy the trip with great ease…
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Date of experience: October 2020
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Very beautiful temple. You feel really gud and possible when you go I side we sit there for 1 hour. There is lot of other God and goddess idol also. Darshan of Badrinath ji was really gud.
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Date of experience: October 2020
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