Gokarna!

I watched gokarna movie in the good old DD channel..It looked like the movie had been taken in 50 B.C and showed the original 'garbha gudi' of the place.Of all the three Lord shiva, Ganesha, and Bhadrakali Amma. ..and i was carried away for a moment to my own trip to the place..The one place where you can feel that shiva has placed his foot on this earth is gokarna..and the funniest part is the place being dominated by Ganesha temples everywhere..ganesha in the form of a small Brahmin's boy with a deep hollow spot on his head ..so deep that people actually put flowers and pour water in the shallowness ,standing erect and almost making you feel like he is a small boy from some world , who came to bless the world .

The shallowness comes from the knocks that ravana gives on his forehead when he puts down the atmalingam on the earth and thus was gokarnam formed and the atma lingam saved from going to Sri Lanka and sits now comfortably in the mountain wraps of western ghats...Ravana in his desperation to take the lingam from the sand there fails bitterly to root it from that place and twists the lingam so badly that some part of the lingam actually went into the earth and the opening took the shape of an cow's ear.(so it was called gokarna)..

I in my naiveness initially thought that the lingam would be in the shape of the cow's ear ..but the actual lingam which u get to touch now is just a small piece of the twisted lot and feels soft and warm..

..and the most amazing part of the whole place is the camp of foreigners who live around the beach there .it has one of the most beautiful beaches in India..with the water almost on the same level to the shore..and i heard that the last time after we left the place , the sea water had almost come till temple ..it wont be more than 3 km.s.