India’s weirdest and mystical temple is India’s Himachal Pradesh state Bijli Mahadev Temple. It is a temple as well as a shrine of Lord Shiva and extremely popular due to its 12-year lightning phenomenon. It passes through an elevation of 2,460 meters above the Kashawari village of Kullu Valley, replete with divinity and shrine site of unimaginably religious and historical depth. Where so brilliant a light of size to be viewed as witness is witness to rule of Shiva and shrine location thus pilgrimaged to be by pilgrims and by all the custodians of faith through whom tread in darkness. Puranas and even very ancient books have described consecrating the temple at that time as well.
Highly Uncommon Phenomenon of Lightning Strike
The second largest surprise surprise about Bijli Mahadev Temple is that the Shivling of the temple shatters every 12 years with an enormous lightning bolt.
Scientifically, barely anything on the ground and thus bound to get hit by lightning bolt, religiously, of course, a piece of work created by God Himself, Lord Shiva, miraculously. The temple priest, by miracle, one would never have thought, constructs centuries-apart Shivling into holy mixture of butter, flour, and pulses and constructs it to its original shape. The pilgrims are strongly sure that it was actually done long, long ago and that it is the work and labor of omnipotence by Divinity and existence of Shiva.
Mythological Legend Behind the Temple
There was in Hindu mythology, Kulant of such enormity. He lived in the Valley of Kullu. He was the originator of all sort of crime and black magic, and even of his own murder, to strangle the Beas River and drown the valley, and to kill every human soul which had been the inhabitant of the valley. He started his career of annihilation in the shape of a gigantic snake.
Having done so, Lord Shiva came down and fought the demon in a huge battle.
Shiva, by his god-like avatar, trounced Kulant to victory butchery and restored calm once again to the valley**.
Bijli Mahadev Once domesticated, as it were, the demon giant’s form was rebuilt in the form of circumambient hills and sanctified with earth. One of them states that Lord Lightning and Thunder God Indra replenishes lightning pilgrims at Shivling every 12 years, and Lord Shiva’s spiritual energies are being refilled here at this temple.
Pilgrimage to the Temple: Treks’ Paradise
Accessibility and Location
The Bijli Mahadev Temple is 20 km from Kullu, but trekking the last 2 kilometers to the temple on foot. Adventure in and around the temple itself, and that too for the pilgrims themselves only excepting the nature lovers and the trekkers.
Route to Travel
- Also reachable from Kullu to Chansari village by taxi or bus.
- 3-km trek from Chansari.
- 2-3 hrs trek depending upon mid level physical strength.
Ordinary not-so-worse temple sightseeing destination. Trekkers’ route has emerald green grazing grounds, cloud forest, and Himalayas views to greet tourists. Higher reaches are once-in-a-lifetime with divine presence of purity of innocence of Kullu valleys and Parvati. Half-way treks tea houses and rest houses are tourists’ luxury.
Best Time to Visit Bijli Mahadev
Optimum time to visit the temple is March to June and September to November. These months are very easy to climb here, as well as the weather too. There are snowy cold winters and therefore not possible.
- Faithfulness and Devotion: Being religious, the temple is an altar of irreplaceable devotion to humanity. Temple tourism leads one to think seriously that temples one has attended are blessed by God, spiritually guided, and guarded by God from devil spirits.
- Festivals and Festivals: Temple activity is not limited to just the month of Maha Shivratri but even to the auspicious Shravan month. Thousands of devotees visit here during those months and obsequies themselves in the forms of milk, water, Bilva leaves, and incense to Holy Shivling.
- Traveler Destination: The adventure, spiritualism, and diversity of the destination all combine to make the temple an apt destination to travel to for adventure seekers in India as well as globally.
- God Power Point: Nearly all of the travelers attest that the temple possesses such divine power, which calms a human from inside outside, purifies the mind, and proximity to God makes a human closer.
The Bijli Mahadev Temple is sacred so much—though one that’s an experience of raw divine power, nature, and spiritual awareness.
The ominous lightning, offbeat mythological folklore, and serene yet ominous spiritual trail trek are all part of one of India’s most compelling religious tourism activities.
If you are among those travelers to Himachal Pradesh, then pilgrimage is your holiday schedule by default. It must be an adventure that will be inter-weaving a divine experience, a spark rise, and space to return again in awefulness before the miracle-ous magnificence of the Himalayas. Travelers, pilgrims, and nature lovers all agree to offer Bijli Mahadev Temple as one-time, devotional, and irrevocably devotional worship and prayer point.
Indian Temple: Bijli Mahadev
Source: Bijli Mahadev
