Introduction
Girnar is an ancient temple in Junagadh, Gujarat, with many Jain temples. 9500 steps to climb the entire mountain, we did 4000 steps to reach Lord Neminath temple.
On the 13th of Jan, we all have to meet up at one place for going to Airport together. But I was so excited that I woke up at 11:00 pm on the 12th night itself. At 1:00 am I got ready for my trip to Girnar. At 2:30 am we took our car and went to a building called R.K. Bhavan, nearby only. I met all with whom I was going to have my trip.
But with the adjustment, we did not need our car. I was going without my family, but I was going with my friends. I said Bye to my family and they went back in our car to home. We took 4 cars: 2 Innova, 1 Hexa and one Creta. I was in the Creta to Hyderabad Airport. We parked all the cars for 3 days and one Innova went back. Then we went inside the Airport and did the check-IN.
We waited for 1 hour for boarding the flight. On the flight, we saw a beautiful sunrise. The air hostess wished us all the best for our mission. It took us 1 Hour 30 Mins to reach Ahmedabad airport. And then we were playing in the airport like this
Then we had clicked a photo for our memories.
For us, a bus was waiting in the parking. As we came out of the Airport, there was horrible cold in the parking. I was wearing a blue jacket, but still, I was feeling cold. I had a handbag and another big bag for my clothes that was going in the dicky. I wore the sweater and then I wore the jacket again but it was still cold.
It was 8:30 am, we went on the bus and we had our breakfast on the bus itself. After we did breakfast, we came out of the bus and played for five mins then went back to the bus. Beside me, my friend Kriya's grandma was sitting. After the bus started, we play a game then all the adults went to drink tea. After they came back, all of us went to sleep.
After one hour, I woke up and the grandma was sleeping on my shoulder. When everyone woke up, it was 12:30 pm, lunchtime. We went to a hotel and had lunch where we all ate paneer butter masala, my favourite.
After our lunch, we played for some time and then we went on the bus. then I sat near Ayan he said please sit somewhere else, so I said ok then sat near Dhariya. Then we played a game called Antakshari. While playing the game, Dhariya said, Vihaan, look there is an accident!
The upper body was somewhere, the brain was out, and from his legs, blood was bleeding It looks like he has died. I looked at it for 1 sec at that accident spot. After seeing it I felt scared. then everyone started talking about it even Dhariya was talking about it.
We reached our destiny Kutchi Bhavan. We had our dinner at 6:30 pm. Then we went into our room the next day packing and had steam for precaution, as the new variant Omicron of Corona was spreading very fast.
The next day we woke up at 4:30 am and changed our clothes and went to the bus because Giranar was 1 km. away from Kutchi Bhavan.
As we reach Taleythi, we went down the bus and went to a temple to worship. After we went to worship Ambika Mata Mandir and prayer that our journey goes good. Then we started our journey by climbing Girnar Mountain.
We were divided into four groups. 2 groups of boys and two groups of girls with adults. One group of boys went away to the top very fast. Then went one group of girls. I was with Mehul Chachu, Pooja Chahchi and Bhavana Chachi then we met the girls on the way.
But they again went faster than us. We met Dhariya. So I and Dhariya become buddies to climb the mountain together. so we were the last ones to reach Girnar temple along with Mehul Chachu, when we reached the top, we were full-on tired.
I was crying because of leg pain. It was 8:30 am when we reached the top of Girnar Mountain. Outside the temple, the floor was very cold and even with a cold wind coming, we were feeling like an ice floor. In the temple, socks were not allowed. The floor was as cold as ice, we were not able to stand on that cold floor. But as we went inside the temple, the floor got warm. It was time for pakshal. The Girnar pakshal is very famous and Magical. There was a huge crowd for the pakshal, you don't even have a place to stand. In the pakshal Lord Neminath, the black statue turned white. It was with lots of music of drums, bells and many more instruments. Enjoy it and saw the first time a pakshal like this.
After the pakshal was over. At 10:30, we went for breakfast. we ate kaju kati, chudwa, thepla and milk. After we ate our breakfast, we all have to go for a bath. we had to get one small bucket in that we had to fill water and then go for a bath for which there was a line for both.
Then we wore pooja clothes and went for pooja. There was a big line for it, which took 1 hour for us to go to the temple. We got only one second to put on one tika on the main Lord Neminath Idol's right foot thumb only. Then we did pooja everywhere as there are lots of other temples too and then we changed our clothes. We were ready to go back down. Few of the boys still went to the top and worshipped Ambemata and others came down. After we reached down, we drank sugarcane juice/lemon juice and we all went back to Kutchi Bhavan.
After we came back, we had our dinner and then played for some time. Then went to girnar darshan. It was evening and in a live view of girnar mountain and there was an aarti of Lord Neminath and an aarti of a mountain. Then we went to watch a very scary movie about narak and do you know that narak is very dangerous after your death if you do anything wrong in your life, in narak they will cut your legs and hands even your head.
Then we went to the most famous Maharajshaheb (Monk) in the world he has done 8000 ambil and did 3343 jatras of girnar. We boys were lucky to meet him. He is very kindhearted and he speaks very soft. After we met him, we went back to Kutchi Bhavan, then we had gifing session. Every one of us got a gift . Then we did the packing for the next day.
The next day we woke up at 6:45, grabbed our bags and went to the temple. Then went to the bus. We were 5 kms away from girnar, Someone forgot something, so we had to go back to Kutchi Bhavan, We got it and went back. In halfway, our bus got punctured. It took us half an hour to start the bus. Once the bus started, we all fell asleep as we all were tired. After 1 hour, we all woke up , we had our breakfast in the bus. We played a quiz game for a long time. At 11 am, we had our lunch at the same hotel, we had during coming time.
Then we went on the bus and we continued to play our game. My friend kriya's father Chirag chachu told us the history girnar. There is a small pond called Gujapata kund and it is very magical. It that because 14 thousand rivers have touched it and you should never drink it. You should keep it in your home temple or you should keep it in your locker, so your health will be good. Then we were almost reaching the airport. The flight was at 9:00 pm and we reached the airport at 6:30 pm. We took our bag and went for the check-IN then to the airport and had our dinner at 7:00 pm. One by one everyone went for the washroom, then we went for boarding. we went to the flight. In the flight, the air hosters wished congratulations on our successful mission.We reached Hyderabad, we went to the flight bus
We took our bags from the check-IN then we took our car. I went to the Creta then we reached R.K. Bhavan. I saw my mom, dad and my grandma. We tried to give them something special but they did not take it. then we said bye to everyone and went back home.
-Vihaan Shah
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