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In the northern part there is a
mighty mountain by the name Himalaya, the abode of
perpetual snow, fittingly called the lord of
mountains, animated by Divinity as its soul and
internal spirit (or in other words, Divinity
incarnate). Spanning the wide land from the
eastern to the western sea, be stands as it were
like the measuring rod of earth.
At the
direction of the king Prithu the self same
mountain was used as a calf by all other
mountains. While the Mount Neru (KAILAS) stood as
an expert milker of cows and milched the Mother
Earth (as if from a cow) the milk of shining gems
and medicinal herbs of wonderful virtues and
supreme efficacy (in order to adorn the
Himalayas).
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865 Kms from Delhi, stand
Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar
constituting one of the grandest of the Himalayan
beauty spots. The perpetual snowclad peak of holy
Kailas of hoary antiquity and celebrity, the
spotless design of nature's art, of most
bewitching and overpowering beauty, has a
vibration of the supreme order from the spiritual
point of view. It seems to stand as an immediate
revelation of the Almighty in concrete form, which
makes man bend his knees and lower his head in
reverence. Its gorgeous silvery summit,
resplendent with the luster of spiritual aura,
pierces into a heavenly height of 6690 meters
(22028 feet) above the level of the
sea.