Episode 38 - A glimpse of the Lord - Kailash Chora

Relax with Meditation

I desired for years, to do a Kailash Chora…. Was it an Ego trip, or Challenge or spiritual desire?

The Kailash Chora is the most famous Pilgrimage for the Hindus and Tibetans. For the Hindus represents Mount Kailash, Mount Meru the place where the God Shiva lives. It is not allowed to climb Mount Kailash, so the pilgrims go around Kailash, which is called Kailash Chora. The stunning altitude is on this pilgrimage trek mainly between 5200m and 5700m and is about 50 km long…

Finally, I booked the Kailash Chora, and we drove with the bus from Kathmandu to Dunche, the starting point of the Kailash Chora trek. I repeated always in my mind the famous Shiva mantra and got blissful, sometimes I cried for Shiva,... Awesome experiences...

Just before we arrived there was a terrible accident just in front of us… A car passed by our bus and crashed with the speed of 80km/h in another car…. Both cars were destroyed and one car flipped upside down… I just saw a hand hanging out of the car that flipped upside down … Nobody wanted to help.

I shouted stop I have to help, and the guide tried to stop me…

The driver of this flipped car was mooring, the roof was nearly flat to the level of the crashed front of the car…

Is he still alive?

How to get him out of the car….

We tried many ways… nothing worked out, and we were desperate, finally, I got the idea to remove the plastic from inside the door… Then we got him out and nursed him… His shoulder and some ribs were broken, severe head injuries…. Still, he could breathe… Luckily he had survived and there was no other person inside the car...

Then we continued our drive to Dunche…

I took my pilgrimage seriously and meditated in the morning and night repeating the name Shiva mantra with every step that I took…

The first day we trekked from the altitude of 4600m to 5200m and 20Km length and the last 5 Km was so exhausting… I had to reduce my speed, my 16kg backpack made it even worse. I enjoyed the beautiful mountain area and even more my rest! On this day, was the Tibetan Saga festival and 1000 Tibetan pilgrims were doing the trek… And that was so motivating….

On the second day we stayed at the monastery to trek close to the Kailash and touch the Kailash instead of continuing with Chora….

Unexpected this day became the Highlight for most Tourists and pilgrims…

Just when I started I was so overwhelmed by love, that I cried … Incredible

And all people who touched the Kailash had a high spiritual experience, regardless if they had faith or not….

A friend of mine took a stone from Kailash and brought that to our Guest house for the people who could not touch Kailash…. One Indian woman cried when he gave her the stone and so me…

She decided that we couldn’t bring the stone home and should give the stone back.

Half of our group, could not continue the Chora because they suffered from symptoms of altitude sickness and went back and one woman rode a horse to the 5700m high pass…. This 5700m high pass got steeper and steeper, and I switched to snail gear… stopped every 5 minutes… the backpack drew me back… Still, it was not as hard as the Thorens la pass, because I trained every morning on the treadmill… Our group and guide supported me a lot, and thought I could do that… So I did… I lost 5 kg body weight because I could not get my raw food, and could not eat much-dried fruits and ground nuts…. The digestion didn’t work properly at high altitudes, hard to sleep… Congestion of the nose...

I had the fortune to complete the Chora.

The Tibetans needed only one day to complete the Chora and we required 4 days, including touching the Kailash.

I think everybody should be well-trained before starting the Chora…

It will be an unforgettable experience, - a life time experience. For sure we don’t get holier, but a glimpse of the Lord will be worth it.

And You strengthen your perseverance and stamina … Regardless how difficult it is, you learn to do it in baby steps when there is no other choice.