Walk With Shiva

A Step-by-Step Guide to the Kailash Mansarovar Parikrama

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There is a mountain that millions of Bhagwan Shiva devotees spend their entire lives hoping to see once. Mount Kailash, rising at 6638 metres in the Tibetan plateau, is not merely a place. It is a reckoning: with the body, with faith, with everything the self has been quietly avoiding.

Giresh Vasudev Kulkarni made the journey at 87 kilograms, with a heart condition and no mountaineering experience. Walk with Shiva is the book that came out of it. Part spiritual memoir, part practical handbook, it takes the reader from the first inner stirring of the call through the sankalp, the Mansarovar bath, the three-day parikrama and the crossing of Dolma La, to the forty days of transformed living that follow the return.

For those planning the yatra.

For those waiting for the call.

For those who have returned and cannot yet name what changed.

Mount Kailash asks the same question of all of them: Are you ready to find out who you are when everything unnecessary is removed?

For Mount Kailash does not wait for the convenient moment. Neither should you.