A friend had booked for stay in Valparai and since she
couldn’t go due to some reason, we got to avail the facility. It was a tough
journey, there were 40 hair pin bends on the way to reach there, but once we
arrived, it was magical. There were tea plantations all around and a plethora of
birds with unique colors, singing melodies!
In the evening time we sat in the balcony, trying to absorb
the beauty and serenity around. My eyes stopped at the mountain top straight
ahead, visible between trees, and I was strongly guided for an open eye
meditation.
It was a very powerful
experience and after a while I began seeing images on the mountain top. First
it was a shivling that appeared. I have superimposed the divine images from the
net onto the photographs I had taken, just to give an idea of what I saw. But
the images that I saw were lifelike, not like pictures.
After I meditated on the Shivling for some time, it slowly
faded out and the image of Shiva appeared in its place.
Sometime later Goddess
Parvati appeared to his left side and
the divine beauty exuding from her face was mesmerizing! Then came Goddess Saraswathi
and for quite some time I could meditate on those celestial beings.
The evening turned to dusk and it was somewhat dark when I
finished meditation. Suddenly a bird came and sat in front of the
balcony.
There were no other birds visible at that time; probably they were
already in their nests. It looked black,
but I knew it was not a crow. It spread its tail like a fan for a few seconds.
Turning to left side, it spread its tail again. Further it turned ninety
degrees, spread the tail, again ninety degrees and fanned tail. Now it sat
there, looking at us (my husband, daughter and me) for some time and flew off.
Next day I saw the bird in day light and realized it had a very beautiful blue color; the Malabar whistling thrush let us listen to its
divine melody during brahma muhurt and dusk time. I managed to record it at 4.30 am. Click here to listen.
It was a surreal experience to me and I am indebted to the
friend because of whom we visited Valparai.
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