When you travel spiritual India you travel as a pilgrim - as a pilgrim you are willing to make the stride from this world of mundane realness to another world which is actually the same as the first. But your intention and reverential curiosity makes it a world in which your journey, your goal and you yourself become expressions of the same One Divine whole. It is a journey you undertake simultaneously within yourself and outside of yourself.

All the sacred journeys are circular in route what does this signify?
Simply that where you are is where everything is, again and again you return to the same spot. Where is there to go then? Nowhere but within yourself!

When you undertake a pilgrimage, the spiritual vibration and energy you shall experience on the way and at the particular spot are enhanced and perhaps only truly felt if you have worked on yourself first, and you have embarked on the journey when you have successfully practiced honesty, love and compassion in your daily life.

Remember that what you speak or do must be what your mind has thought too and must also be what your heart wants. A harmony of this kind makes you an aware person- and awareness is to live moment to moment in alert consciousness in a moment to moment response which is honest at all levels. An Aware person is never guilty or fearful. An aware person commits no wrong. His spontaneous and aware actions leave no residue. Leave no Karma. An act becomes a Karma when it is a reaction a result of memories and the past. An aware person is happy and peaceful. An aware person is the true pilgrim.

Some places are more scared these are the special sacred spots. At these spots your journey culminates in complete sacredness. A journey seemingly ordinary transforms into a sacred mission.

Choice of a particular sacred spots depends on the predilection of the pilgrim, the devotees of Krishna will go to Mathura, those of Ram to Ayodhya, Shiva to Haridwar, and Varanasi etc etc. Devotees of Sati to the Kamkhaya temples.

Most of the pilgrimages to tirth sthanas(sacred spots) can be linked with each other in concentric circles. This perhaps more than anything else prescribes the nature of the journey. Everything is where you already are. Hindus and non-Hindus can undertake pilgrimages. There is no rule that says that non-Hindus cannot undertake pilgrimages. There is no rule that says that non-Hindus cannot visit a scared site or follow the pilgrims route.

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