Guest guest Posted April 1, 2002 Report Share Posted April 1, 2002 The land's end of India is a legendary spot for several reasons. Swami Vivekanda, the renowned religious philosopher and freedom fighter meditated on the rocks here in 1892 and is said to have received divine knowledge. Tourist and followers of the Swami flock to the site where the landscape may be bare and arid and the atmosphere tawdry and frivolous, but the exquisitely tinted ocean more then makes up for these disadvantage. In ancient times when the legend of the perpetual virgin was still fresh in people's minds, her home, Kanyakumari ( Cape Cormorin ) was a great center of pilgrimage. Her temple, an unimpressive structure apparently reconstructed by the Pandyas in the 12th or 13th century, stands on the rocks today at the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula overlooking the newer Vivekananda Memorial on the rocks across the straits. Meanwhile, she awaits her lover, observing wistfully the mingling of the lucid azure, emerald and aquamarine waters of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. Om ParaShaktiye Namaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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