A Trip to Pandharpur

Hi Friends,
Recently I visited a place in Maharashtra named Pandharpur. It's a karm bhumi of Lord Vitthal. The credit for making me go to Pandharpur goes to my friends Rahul and Ganesh. Some night when me and Rahul were coming back from the lab he asked me " Chal yaar pandhar pur chalte hai". I said "OK". At that time we decided that we will go to pandharpur on Wednesday. Then hamari class ke jaane maane shaks jinke recently naukri lagi thi "Ganesh Bhau" unse humne pucha kya aap Pandhapur chaloge. He was ready on his foot and said "Chalo aaj hi chalte hai". We boarded the train the same night from Kalyan. We reached Solapur, there we saw the temple of "Sant Sidheshwar". Then we took a bus from Solapur to Pandharpur. It was a 2 hrs journey.

We finally reached Pandharpur at aroud 15:00 hrs. We took bath in river Bhima and then first visited the temple of Sant Pandulik. I would like to tell you the long story of Lord Vitthal in short.

There was a Sant named "Pandulik", he was busy attending his mother and father and the same time Lord Vitthal arrived there and asked for something. As Pandulik was busy he threw a brick towards Lord Vitthal and asked him to stand on it and wait. Lord Vitthal saw immense love in the eyes of Pandulik for his parent and didn't mind waiting there and stood there for ever. So this is how Lord Vitthal halted there and now there is a big temple which we visited.

There is one more interesting thing about that temple that, I haven't seen a temple in which you can be that close to the idol of the Lord that even you can place your head in feets of the Lord.

The temple was very old and made of black stone. It was a beautiful and nice experience.

When we thought of returning from Pandharpur we thought of eating something and the same time the most dreadful thing for a IIT student happened. Ganesh Bhau got a call from his guide. And told him that " Ab to placement ho gaya, kaam pe lag jao".

We enjoyed our trip. We returned back in the evening by a direct bus from Pandharpur to Thane. We sat in the bus. the conductor came and we asked for three tickets to Thane. He said Nine hundred and something. But we were having only 850 Rs. So he gave us the tickets to Panvel. Then in the middle we got an ATM and bought the tickets for the rest of our Journey.