Age of Pilgrimage - 2nd Chapter.
Moving from Hall 29 and receivnig slowly towards the outer corridor of the Sri Venketesawara Temple at Tirumala filled with mixed emotions of happiness and remorse. Happy , because, I could visit Him for the second time and remorse as I regretted that why It took so long, I could have come to Him, a decade earlier. However, It was 2nd March 2024, after last year visit in April 2023. with family.
Started at ATC circle around 1PM. after waiting at various check posts and verifications, I reached along with the unmindful crowd , thinking nothing about the existence of others, toward the main door and inner sanction of the Temple. With Sparsh of the 'Dwar' I entered the temple of almighty. The crowd control army was steadfast at their duty of pushing and pulling by hand or anything they can hold on of the pilgrim. I have been pushed towards a que leading to the inner sanction from where the aam janta can tae glimpse of the God. tumbling and squassing, I reached the last mile. Trying to take shorter step to maximise the face to face darshan of the Sri Govinda, I could spent 5-6 seconds looking at the greatest truth of our existence, God Sri Venketeswara and thanking Him for his help in doing the impossible last year and wishing perhaps begging to do next to impossible task for me this years or in a year or two. It was between 3:42pm to 3:43 pm. Me, a greedy subject, has requested Him to help me small factor called LUCK. I am also going to help myself by doing the hard work, as He said to Arjun, "karm karo, Fal ki Chinta Vishnu karege". After putting hundi of 111+1, I exited the Temple of Believe in Impossible at 4:13 pm and went straight to collect the Prasadam.