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The revered temple is located few meters away from the banks of Bhagirathi River. Rishikesh and Dehradun Railway stations are the closest from the temple and is located kms from Uttarkashi, while Jolly Grant in Dehradun is the nearest airport located kms via Mussoorie Road and kms via NH34 from Uttarkashi. Contact us for planning your Uttarkashi tour with best travel packages of as per your requirements! Send us your travel details and we will help you with making best travel itinerary at the best offer price!

About Kashi Vishwanath Temple Uttarkashi. Inside Kashi Vishwanath Temple Lord Shiva is manifest here immersed in deep meditation, showering his blessing upon all humanity. Read How to Reach guide for Uttarkashi.

What is Kashi Vishwanath Temple Uttarkashi famous for? Places to See in Uttarkashi Gartang Gali. Sangam Chatti. Bharkot Airport. Barsu Village. Nelong Valley. Maneri Dam. Plan your Trip Full Name. Guests No. Travelling to Uttarkashi in ? The people who are doing it now do not know anything about it, but they are just keeping the process up. It is like using a cellphone — you do not really know how it works, but you just learn to use it and it works for you.

Like this, these people do not know the technology of it, but they know how to make it happen. They just kept the system as it is, and they did this process in the evening for about one-and-a-half hours. They built stacks and stacks of energy. I was just sitting there and I could not believe these priests are doing this. I would have never imagined they would be able to do this. I know what it takes to do it, but not like this. To do that in Isha, we have to do a lot of things because we do not have a process like that.

We build people into that kind of situation and build a heap of energy so that everyone can experience this. These priests know nothing about their own energy or what can be done, but they have stuck to the process and built such a phenomenon there.

It was absolutely fantastic. The participants visit spiritually significant spaces and have the rare privilege of a special satsang with Sadhguru in Kashi as part of the sojourn.

Click here to find out more about Kashi Krama. Sadhguru : As long as you are in pursuit of liberation, what you do and how you do it is not important. As long as your basic intention is dissolution, it does not matter how you do it. There is a certain temple in Kashi where if you want to attain, they had a timber saw, which is called karvat in the local language. Even now, the linga is called Karvat linga. People traveled from long distances, and they wanted karvat, that is, they wanted to be sawed into two pieces in the temple in front of the linga.

This linga was made for that purpose. They used the saw to cut a human being from the top of the head. Initially, this was done only to cut to a certain point to open up the sahasrar. It was done carefully by people who know what to do so that life is liberated.

Clearly separating two dimensions of who you are, and liberating you from within. Do not try it now! It has been banned for some time. I am just trying to tell you the extent to which they were willing to go because that is how significant mukti was considered to be — you must attain in this life.

There are many sages and saints who have referred to Kashi Karvat, for example Mirabai and Surdas. Then they removed the saw. It is said that the saw is in some British museum right now. The Panchakroshi Yatra is one of the most significant pada yatras done by pilgrims around the sacred Kashi Mandala. Along this route, there are shrines, to which pilgrims travel by foot. There are five major villages, where pilgrims can rest and stay overnight.

Even today, choultries built by kings a few hundred years ago are still intact. As one travels in a clockwise direction on the Panchakroshi route, all the temples are located on the right side of the road, marking the outer limit of the Panchakroshi sphere.

The first major temple on this route is the Aadhikarmadheshwar temple. The Linga here was consecrated by Sage Karmadeshwar. In the Kashi Khanda Purana, it is said that yakshas and ganas always lived on the trees and near water bodies. On this route, their shrines have also been placed in the same way.

The second temple on the route is the Bhimachandi mandir. This Durga temple is said to have been established by a Gandharva who worshipped Devi here. She is said to protect all devotees who seek her grace as her own child, blessing them with health and wellbeing.

The third is Dehali Vinayak temple. This temple is directly in line with the Kashi Vishwanath temple, marking the halfway mark of the yatra. It is said that before entering Kashi, Lord Rama meditated here. The fourth is the Rameshwaram temple. This temple is said to be a replica of the Rameshwaram temple in southern India. It is situated on the banks of the river Varuna, and marks the northernmost point of the yatra.

It says in the scriptures, that all the lingas of the Kashi Mandala fall under forty-two kinds. In the Kapiladhara temple, all forty-two kinds are there in a single form.

Sadhguru: Bhairava is one who takes you beyond fear. Kala Bhairava is the fear of time — not the fear of death — because time is the basis of fear. If you are free from the fear of time, you are absolutely free from fear. Kala Bhairava is a deadly form of Shiva. It was guaranteed that if you come to Kashi, whatever kind of a lousy creature you have been all your life, you will attain to mukti.

That means when the moment of death comes, for all that you have been, your many lifetimes play out in a moment with great intensity, and whatever pleasures and pains that need to happen to you, will all happen.

What would have spread over many lifetimes will happen to you in a microsecond but with the kind of intensity that you cannot hold. Yatana means ultimate suffering. It is something that happens to you in hell, but he will make it happen to you here. When you want to do that kind of a job, you need a right kind of costume. Shiva put on the right kind of costume and became Kala Bhairava to create Bhairavi Yatana for you.

He creates such phenomenal pain that you have not imagined possible, but just for a moment so that after that, nothing of the past remains in you. The eight Kala Bhairava temples are located in eight cardinal directions of Kashi, protecting the whole Mandala. In the Kashi Khanda Purana, the Kashi Kshetra is said to be standing upon Shiva's trishul — and three main temples form the three main points of the trident.

These three main temples act as the fulcrum for the mandala. They are: Omkareshwara in the north, Vishweshwara in the middle and Kedareshwara in the south. Each temple forms their own khanda, or sphere of influence.

Sadhguru : Kashi is full of rituals. It was the center of rituals. There is nothing as sure-fire as doing something internally — that is the best way to do it.

Once you have been initiated into a spiritual process, that is what you should depend on. But these rituals were for the public. They do not know how to do anything with themselves, but they know enough that something needs to be done with them. When that is the case, an instrument like Kashi, and the complex rituals that came along with the instrument, are very useful because it handles people en masse. Sadhguru : Water is an important element of your survival.

Seventy percent of your body is just water. So we recognize the water that is flowing in the river as the source of our survival. The Ganga Arati is traditionally performed every evening at the time of sunset on the banks of the river in Kashi. It is a beautiful atmosphere that you can enjoy, and a powerful process if you allow it to be.

The most fundamental aspect of Yoga is known as Bhuta Shuddhi, which is about working towards creating a certain freedom from the five elements, because creation is just the mischief of the five elements. In Bhuta Shuddhi, there is a whole lot of sadhana with every aspect — with earth, wind, fire, water and space.

We not only bow down to the five elements so that they function well for us, we also learn mechanisms to make them function well. Only if these five elements are in cohesive function will you have a proper body and a proper life. A tower of light of immeasurable height The cosmic reach of the blessed city drew men of all kinds. Craftsmen and tradesmen scholars and priests, merchants and mendicants builders and boatsmen. Seekers of every kind flocked to suck at the teat of eternity.

Mother Ganga took an odd turn to embrace this sacred space. Even ensnared the Great Lord Shambho by its charm. The great Kashi lost in the folds of human memory Now left graceless by the invading hordes and the callous kind who administer bereft of the sacred touch, but of greed and indolence of the worst sort. May blessed Kashi rise again And touch one and all with its Sacred light. Domes and towers of stone and metal Palaces and parliaments for pleasure and purpose.

Schools and temples for pursuits of here and beyond, all these and more make a city that people build. But a city with a tower of light and cremation ghats that burn eternally with only aspiration to dissolve. Where Death is sacred beyond life. A city built for Death and Dissolution where life happens with the knowledge that there is no tomorrow. Sadhguru: There are stories behind how Manikarnika Ghat came to be.

Parvati dropped her earring by Shiva's instruction. Vishnu, being chivalrous, wanted to pick it up, but it went into the earth. So he used his discus to dig the place. He dug and dug and dug. He started sweating so much that the pit filled up with his own sweat, but he could not find Parvati's earring because as he dug, it went deeper and deeper. But you keep this place because you put your sweat into this.

Question : There is a saying that if you get cremated at Manikarnika Ghat, you will get enlightened. Is it so? Sadhguru : Do not misunderstand the marketing for the reality! It is not all marketing, but there is always a product and then there is marketing. Sometimes in a society, marketing becomes bigger than the product. Now, after 28 January , this temple becomes the property of the government of Uttar Pradesh and it is managed by Dr.

Vibhuti Narayan Singh, then by the Kashi Naresh. How to reach to the temple : You can reach to the temple by having an auto rickshaw or taxi. Location of the Temple : Kashi Vishwanath temple is located almost 5 km away from the Varanasi railway station and almost 6 km from the BHU.

Kashi Vishwanath Temple located at the western bank of the holy river Ganges. The Jyotirlinga present in the Kashi Vishwanath Temple is considered as the 12 th of all the Jyotirlingas. Lord Shiva is the main deity in Hinduism and also known as the Vishwanatha or Vishweshwara means the ruler of the universe.

Kashi is the oldest city of the world in history and known as the city of Lord Shiva. According to the Shaiva philosophy, it is considered that Kashi Vishwanath Temple is the midpoint of the worship for a long time. There is a Gyanvapi Mosque located adjacent to the temple. During spiritual occasions such as Shivratri, the king of Kashi Kashi Naresh comes to the temple. At that time nobody is allowed to enter the temple.

Other devotees are allowed to the temple only after Kashi Naresh has completed his worship. There is a well in the campus of the temple called Jnana Vapi or wisdom well. There is a history behind the well. It is considered that the Jyotirlinga was veiled in the well in order to get protection from incursion. The main saint of the temple was jumped in to the well with the Jyotirlinga to protect from the intruders.