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It’s hard to consider some of these as “caves” but they really are carved into the mountain. There’s a cool story about why the main structure was carved out of the mountain rather than built like a normal building, but that’s for another day…

This day was both spectacular and—for the lack of a more eloquent phrase—spectacularly-shitty….

What made it spectacular? Well, the caves are pretty impressive. Imagine a mountain out of which dozens of caves have been carved. Some of the structures carved out were even three stories high. Imagine also that in one stretch of caves you can see some amazing sculpting representing Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religions, and even for a non-religious person like myself, it was pretty impressive.

We hired a guide for the main structure, and for the most part, he was OK. He truly did over-simplify things though, although in retrospect, maybe that was good for Henny and Karin.

This cave had an amazing natural reverbation when you hummed. Good for chanting, I guess….

Here are two memorable oversimplifications:

Many people think Hinduism is confusing because they think there are too many gods. But in reality there is only one god. The three main forms of this god are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Brahma is the germinator, Vishnu is the organizer, and Shiva is the discipliner. Germinator. Organizer. Discipliner. G-O-D. What does that spell?

Can you remember what Veda means? No. OK. I will help you. Reverse the syllables of Veda, and what do you get? Da ve. Veda is da ve of life. See, it is simple, really.

I know it’s bad, but stop cringing….

I think the Amar Chitra Katha comics tell the story much better (and if I get a chance to scan in the comic, I’ll be sure to post it…).

So, what made the day shitty? Stuff….

Anwyay. Of course, with such cool stuff, I had to take a lot of photos….