Inner Trek

Purandara Dasa’s words, “All that happened has happened for good. All that is happening is happening well. All that will happen will also be for good. Why are you repenting for what you have lost? What have you created that is destroyed? What have you brought with you to lose?”

Four of the largest Indian rivers: Sutlej, Brahmaputra, Indus, and Karnali (a tributary of the Ganges) had their sources in the vicinity of Mount Kailash.

Dr. Ernst Muldashev, a Russian ophthalmologist based in Ufa, came up with a theory that Mount Kailash was actually an ancient man-made pyramid that was surrounded by smaller pyramids and linked to pyramids in Giza and Teotihuacan. As he described, “The [mountain’s] dividing lines show up clear and distinct which gives the mountain the facade of having been built by giant hands of huge blocks of reddish stones.”

The deadly combination of high altitude and an unexpected drop in temperature plays havoc with untrained Kailash pilgrims and often takes their lives. Above 10,000 feet, the oxygen level in the atmosphere drops by about 10% for every 2,000-foot gain in elevation. As an example, although the oxygen content on Mount Everest is the same as in Mumbai, due to the low atmospheric pressure, on Everest only about 30% of the available oxygen can enter our lungs.