The CLARIONGANG OF SIX VAGABOUNDS
Project: A jaunt in the heartland of vrindavan and Agra
Location: Some pre Harappa or post Mohenjo-Daro site which founds its mention in Bhagavata Purana
Human capital: SANDEEP KHARB, RAGHU, SAURABH, VIVEK SHAILY, KARAN GUPTA, KARAN SHARMA
Financial resources: $ 785(US DOLLAR) per person( value must have eroded especially after subprime crisis)
Let me start our verisimilitude megillah which have its origins to the fine morning of 24th December 2007(I miss the year), we all are supposed to meet at 7 am at Delhi university metro station. Suddenly I got a call from karan at 6: 45, “where are you” (still rubbing my eyes), now I have got just 900 seconds to reach metro station, then with some military exercises me and vivek were at the metro station with showing great dexterity at packing and using some mountainous(pahari) jadibutis to satisfy our hungry left intestines. From metro station we went to New Delhi railway station and from there we took the ticket of AC FIRST CLASS to Mathura from Delhi railway station. As expected the journey started with usual comfort which we had expected. We all of six were sitting in the comfortable compartment of Indian railways and we were told that Mathura is around 2:30 hrs from Delhi railway station. All of us have fun on the way because we got enough space and time to discuss and comment about the crows of Delhi and beautiful sparrows of Mathura, on our way we experienced the enchanting lagoon of Kerala( correct me if am wrong). In the comfortable confines of Indian railways we were deliberating about the mangy condition of Indian railways well on our journey we have our guide with us and his name is karan Sharma. As soon as we reached the Mathura junction, we knew what new things we are expecting. Let me give some information regarding this place-
Brajbhoomi - the land where Shri Krishna was born and spent his youth has today little towns and hamlets that are still alive with the Krishna legend and still redolent with the music of his flute. Mathura, a little town on the River Yamuna was transformed into a place of faith after Lord Krishna was born here. Vrindavan, a village - once noted for its fragrant groves, is where he spent an eventful youth. There are numerous other little spots in the area that still reverberate with the enchantment of Shri Krishna.
We have our own plans of visiting famous temple of Mathura, but unfortunately it was closed at 10:30 and it will again open for d common people at around 4:00 clock in the evening. Therefore we decided to spend our time in Mathura itself and later in the evening we decided to go to vrindavan. On our way we decided to take the Tonga to Yamuna. Within in 20 minutes we have reached the banks of Yamuna. Now we haven’t eaten anything since morning therefore we decided to have a go at the local hotels. Here we have tasted d mast tea of Mathura. Then after this we have a go at the local milk which is the speciality of Mathura. Now comes the boating part. We decided to take a boat to getting the feeling of this holy river. Now here starts the photo session and rahgu was in its sublime form, we were singing the popular songs of radha Krishna. When u get to this place you get the unknown feeling of something great an really deep which transcends u. now comes into picture saurabh( may I tell u this man have got great sense of humour). Now raghu tried his hand on learning the nuances of boating nd in d process infuriating the boatmen (he wasn’t impressed by a jaipur marauder trying to sink his boat). Then on seeing his finesse and obstreperous behaviour me and karan Sharma decided to have a go at boating, both of us have in fact tried to squeeze d pedals from the hands of the boatman, but again Sharma showed some of his skills in boating, then we decided to have some adventure on the shores of Yamuna. There was an isolated temple where all of six decided to give our obeisance. There was a railway track where we decided to kill raghu but unfortunately the boy has showed great gumption and has got enough balderdash to understand the Machiavellian behind our moves. Here a local person told us the importance of the word “Radha”; he told that the person who says the word Radha even once at this wholly place then all his evil acts get washed away by the holy Yamuna and that person gave us the popular hymn regarding Radha-
“Radha tu badi bhagini,kaun tapasya keen,
Teen lok taran taran hai taure adheen.”
Now its already 2 o clock, therefore we decided to go to GOVERDHAN temple. We reached there from the VIP GATE which we already have passes with us, but we were not allowed to take our cameras and mobile phones with us, therefore we don’t have any chance of taking any snaps of this beautiful temple. Then we came visited this beautiful temple and it was a great experience and raghu was showing his usual freaking behaviour. Now it’s getting late therefore our caravan decided to head towards vrindavan. I always thought how beautiful its to visit a place which have its history and past embellished with greatest human emotion i.e. love which Is artistically demonstrated through its amazing structures of radha and Krishna in various temples , now we took an auto rickshaw from Mathura to vrindavan and we reached there approx in 30 min. now the first thing which we decided to visit there was iskon temple, The Sri Krishna-Balrama Temple built by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in a location known as 'Raman-Reti', is one of the most beautiful temples in Vrindavan today. The principal deities of this temple are Krishna & Balaram, with Radha-Shyamasundar and Gaura-Nitai alongside. Adjoining the temple is the Samadhi of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON, built in pure white marble. Now here starts the real fun, all of 6 have danced here continuously for 3 hours on the tunes of aartis, here our dear friend PAHARI have shown some the most exotic mudras of radha dance which still stirs the emotions of anyone. Now each one of us be it gupta, sharma, raghu have showed something which we can at least proud of be it mudras which are explainable to us only and we were the cynosure and each as usual many visitors came and gone but we were adamant enough to show our overweening baloney and any marketing manager should be proud of how to get attention. Now it was already getting late therefore we decided to put our tents in some hotel room, and luckily we got one near the popular the Banke-Bihari temple. Now we have decided not to sleep that night and therefore we decided to have a hand at cards. Here I and saurabh have a shot at bluffing, sorry saurabh I have to say that I am good at bluffing. Now at this moment raghu and our vivek sir at his roaring best which somehow instigated the emotions of the owner of the hotel and we have to confine our confabulations in a milder tone. Now this is the whole story of first day and all of us were really exhausted therefore we decided to go to sleep. I know we have become lucubrate because we are students of mba, but we thought its right time to go to sleep, I don’t know when I went to sleep. Now comes the next morning we decided to go to Agra (it’s around 58 kms from vrindavan) and before that we went to the Banke-Bihari temple. Then after giving our prayer we took the taxi from vrindavan for Agra and may I tell u that these taxi Walla charges too much of money which have almost bankrupted us. Now we reached Agra at around 12:30 since we have to go back on the same day therefore we decided to book the return tickets to Delhi from Agra railway station. Then we hired another taxi from here and we headed to world wonder Tajmahal. All of us were really excited to see this place and especially me and saurabh and vivek who haven’t seen it before. But when we reached there the crowd was amazing and we were sceptic whether we will go to see it or not. Then comes to the picture my best friend (and we never fight with each other) karan gupta, one of guptas friend live in the nearby locality and his name is Imraan. He was a nice person to meet with, and then he has taken us through the shortest route. There are three gates for entering Tajmahal. He have taken us through the other gate than the main gate at the entrance, and luckily we get in. all of us have our own feeling regarding Tajmahal especially for the people who haven’t seen it before and the first look of Taj was amazing and I can never forget that look, the feeling you get when you see it for the first time is amazing and wonderful which cannot be explained in words. Now all of us fell in love with Taj and raghu was at his photographic sense by tasting our ever beautiful and embraceable mother earth and in the meanwhile increasing the odour of his body which he hasn’t washed for years . Each one of us has taken snaps of not only of Taj but also of some little white creatures which were a rarity in Delhi. Now there were some professional photographers who are government approved and all of us decided to have our snap from one of these photographer, then we roam around the whole structure and we entered the beautiful monument and inside it the whole structure was amazing. Now inside the building we were amazed at the architectural beauty of the structure and the skills which are required to create this beautiful structure. Now inside the Taj our popular and smarty karan Sharma got a compliment from a foreign tourist lady that he looks like a bollywood star and on hearing this Sharma was not on his feet and he couldn’t control his beautiful smile throughout the whole journey. Now inside the Taj me and gupta showed great bonhomie which even shahjahan wouldn’t have shown for her mumtaz and on seeing our friendliness even foreigners were impressed and they have taken pledge to come to this place again and again because here they have just seen the most friendly behaviour. Well after this we visted the masjid in tajmahal where shahjahan usually prays and we were really intoxicated by the beauty and grandeur of this whole structure and it is truly the greatest and most beautiful wonder of the world.
Now it getting late and we had our train from Agra railway station at around 7 in the evening, so we decided to pack our luggage and decided to go back and before that we had our evening dinner at PUNJABI Restaurant and there were many Photostatted repeats were made and the water here was mind blowing and everybody was insisting me to have more and more water of this sacred and holy Agra city. Then we boarded the train and to while our time we decided to play cards and Mr pahari had very rough time playing against Mr Sharma’s apparition( oh god why am I using this word probably because ghosts are common in Himalayas) . On the other hand saurabh, gupta and raghu have their own sessions and I went to sleep and then suddenly I woke up because raghu was showing his balderdash kinky behaviour to the whole train (this person is full of life). Then after 4 hours journey we reached the Delhi railway station and we decided to have our midnight dinner and then all of us have taken auto rickshaw to our house and I have one complaint against these people that they haven’t given mathuras pedas to me and vivek. Overall this was a great experience and we came to know each other in a better way and some of the incidents volte face our understanding regarding each other and become friends for whole life time.
