


Undeterred by the deadly flash floods that have claimed at the very least 16 lives at Baltal, devotees thronged the Amarnath Yatra foundation camp in Jammu on Saturday with a “significant diploma of enthusiasm and devotion” for their onward journey to the cave shrine located at a height of 3,880 metres in the south Kashmir Himalayas.


Expressing grief over the tragedy that occurred on Friday, the pilgrims explained they have no fear as they have total faith in Lord Shiva, incorporating that it would be a great privilege for them if they die in the abode of the god.

The 43-day annual pilgrimage started out on June 30 from the twin routes — the regular 48-km route from Nunwan in Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag and the 14-km shorter but steep Baltal route in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir.


Above 1 lakh pilgrims have paid out obeisance at the cave shrine as the yatra is scheduled to stop on August 11 on the event of Raksha Bandhan.


“We reached Jammu on Saturday. We have no panic. We have come here taking the identify of Lord Shiva. If the god normally takes our lives listed here, we will accept it. But we have arrive to have darshan of Bholenath and nothing can cease us from doing that,” Anantajit, who has come alongside with his wife and two youngsters from Tripura, stated.


Pointing out that individuals who have been born will also have to die one day, he said, “If the loss of life occurs in the abode of Shiva, it would be the most pious thing to occur to any one.”
Chanting “Bam Bam Bhole”, “Har Har Mahadev” and “Bholenath Ki Jai”, a group of 60 enthusiastic pilgrims from Rajkot in Gujrat entered the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for their onward journey to the twin base camps of Pahalgam and Baltal on Sunday.


“We have no anxiety in our hearts and minds. Whether or not there is a cloudburst or flash floods, we will go to Amarnath with the blessings of Bholenath. We are enthusiastic to have darshan of the ice lingam as we could not take a look at the shrine in the final two a long time thanks to COVID-19,” Surinder Singh of Kanpur reported.


More than 6,000 pilgrims have arrived in Jammu from different components of the nation for their journey to Kashmir to pay out obeisance at the cave shrine. A significant hurry was noticed at the registration counters, token centres and lodging centres, aside from the base camp in Jammu.


The shrine properties an ice stalagmite construction known as the “lingam” that wanes and waxes with the phases of the moon. Devotees imagine that the “lingam” symbolises the legendary powers of Shiva.


The flash floods activated by hefty rains have failed to change the religious fervour and devotional mood in Jammu, officers reported.


“Pilgrims devoid of panic and with high enthusiasm are coming in hundreds. There has been no fall in pilgrim arrivals,” an official stated.


Over 3.42 lakh pilgrims had compensated obeisance at the shrine from July 1 to August 1, 2019, right before the Centre cancelled the pilgrimage midway, in advance of the abrogation of Posting 370 of the Constitution and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into Union territories.


At minimum 16 persons have been killed although 15,000 pilgrims, who were being stranded in close proximity to the holy cave owing to the flash floods, have been shifted to the lower base camp of Panjtarni, officials said.


A large operation is on to trace the missing people.
(Only the headline and image of this report may have been reworked by the Small business Standard employees the rest of the material is automobile-created from a syndicated feed.)

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