Gomat Giri Temple

On the way to Gomat Giri Temple

After a long wait of almost one and a half years I went to my home. I was very happy and excited to go home. I was so happy that I didn't realize when the journey got over. Though 27-30 hours journey by train is quite long and tiring, but I guess I am use to it now and spirit of going home makes it bearable. Recently, I developed hunger for visiting temples and religious places, whenever I go to Indore. This time when I went to Indore I visited famous “Gomat Giri” temple. I went along with my family. It is a Jain temple situated on the top of the hill. It is very peaceful and beautiful place.

View from the top

This time (14^th August) when I went to Indore the weather was good. The day we went to the temple, the sky was covered with clouds and the Sun was playing hide-and-seek. When we reached at the top of the hill, cold breeze welcomed us. I enjoyed the breeze there.

Gomat Giri Temple

Gomat Giri is a big religious place. It has one giant idol of Lord Mahavir along with other 23 idols of Tirthankars (Jain Gods). All idols are situated in the series of room adjacent to each other. We worshiped all the idols one by one. After worshiping all the idols I felt content.

Papa and my niece 'Mahy'

Navagrah Jinalaya

Gomat Giri is such peaceful and beautiful place; I was just amused by the beauty of the nature there. People come along with the family for pick-nick trip. When I was kid even we used to come for pick-nick.

On the return Journey

While returning I took the snaps and thanked God for everything. Finally I left the place with a peaceful mind.

The Club Cabana

For long time we didn’t have team outing so we all were eager to go out and have a bash. Finally the day came and we all went for team outing. Our team is small team of 9 people namely Anand, Amit, Niranjan, Nandkishore, Sarath, Ullas, Vasavi, Shilpa and last but not the least myself :P. 

The plan was to start early and reach the club around 9 am, play sports and leave early around 5:30 pm. This seems to be quite simple plan. But unavoidable circumstances (people know very well) made us felt that the plan was too perfect to follow. So we reached late around 10:30 am. We all had breakfast and we were ready to rock! Another ideal part of the plan was the 'day'; we decided ‘Friday’ as outing day, thinking that Friday being a weekday won’t be crowded. But presence of the crowd made us felt that Friday is no more a weekday rather part of weekend. 

The Enterance!

  

Warm Welcome 

 

The club has lots of games both indoor and outdoor. We all enjoyed playing lawn tennis a lot! Sarath’s is Ace when it comes to serve. Anybody who is picking up Sarath’s serve can be disguised by his physical appearance. Soon we started feeling hungry. After having good lunch near the Tide waves arena we joined the water sports. 

Nothing can beat the enjoyment when it comes to water sports. For me water slide was the top among the water sports. We all enjoyed like anything. Nandkishore and Anand were flocking together in the water slide. Given the number of rounds they did together in the water slide (with tube) made us think other way about their chemistry ;-). I found high tea ecstatic during the water sports. ‘Tide waves’ was fantastic. I was almost doing surfing with the tube on the waves. Great fun! ‘Lazy water’ has its own taste. In Lazy water the water flows in a narrow channel which goes around the park and touching the other water sport’s arena. I and Anand were taking rest on tube during our trip in the Lazy water. 

In the last we played ‘Bowling’. Everybody was waiting for bowling. We split into two groups, five people in first group and four people in second group. The ambience was fundoo! The combination of bowling, music and team was marvelous. It was fun watching people screaming, dancing and making funny actions over their bowling. In my first turn I turned all the bottles down. Bingo!! Great way to start! In the remaining frames I turned down 9 bottles in the first chance of the two chances in a frame. I finished first with a score of 76 followed by Niranjan(46) and Shilpa(46). Sarath was ‘Foul King’. He topped among us by achieving highest number of fouls. 

In the return journey we played ‘Dum Charades’ as journey was quite long. And considering the traffic conditions in Bangalore the journey time increases beyond the imagination. Anand wasn’t so spirited about the game. He was acting like a moron but Shilpa and I persuaded him to play. Only four of us were playing, Anand and Shilpa in one team and I and Vasavi in another. Shilpa gave the movie names which were as easy as pie. Even I was able to crack down with ease (My knowledge of movies is so limited that even ‘Pachavi Class Baccha’ can beat me ;-)). Movie ‘Hadd kardi apne’ given by Shilpa to me was cracked in nanoseconds and I didn’t have to even act for that. This was height (‘hadd hai’ Shilpa haina). Dum Charades was a good time pass. We all enjoyed the day till the last. The outing is memorable especially for Anand. We all will remember the outing.