Some astonishing facts about 🔱 (Kedāranātha) Sri Kedaranath , Vastu miracle

Some astonishing facts about 🔱 Sri Kedaranath , Vastu miracle

Śrī Kedāranātha (kedarnath) standing majestically on snowcapped Himalayan peak today is a witness to thousands of years of history and events. It survived everything and witnessed everything as if it is there to give us a story of what it has witnessed.

It’s construction is been attributed to Pāṇḍava from Mahābhārata and reconstruction to Sri ādi śankarācārya in 8^th century AD. There is a claim by geologists that it was under snow for some 400 years. The word Kedār means mountains or a meadow under water. Kedāranātha means the lord of the mountains. The interesting thing is that it falls in the water path of glacier-based river which must have flowed through this north-south path some few thousand years back. The crevasse in the mountains is often caused by shifting glaciers or river paths. Hence the name seemed appropriate and suggests that this region was once under ice or there was too much water nearby. According to texts, the crops of liberation or Moksha grows over here.

Sthāpatya miracle 🔱:

The nagara style temple is made of gray hunk of stone slabs which are interlocked with each other.

The interesting thing is that cement or mortar is not used for binding these slabs. They are very heavy stone slabs which use interlocking mechanism. Building a structure of this feat at a height of 11,755 feet is no ordinary work and requires super human efforts. If we want to reconstruct the same , then it will require months and years of work even with all our modern technology. It appears to be the work of some divine beings rather then humans. The slabs are too heavy and it is unimaginable that how these were bought to top of mountain. Even if they were cut from nearby mountains then they require heavy machinery and work.

The interlocking mechanism is used for fast construction and is good in earthquake prone areas and can bear harsh attacks of nature including floods. So, someone who designed it was well aware of the topography of this Himalayan region. The temple faces South and is built with almost 90-degree alignment to geographic North. Someone who designed it was adept in directions considering that it was built many years back without compass or anything.

The temple carries Yamavīthī and the direction is ruled by Yama and Ṃatrika Māheśvarī. The Plava is called Yamavīthī. It is very inauspicious as it causes unwanted or sudden death. Āparajita Priccya mentions further results like regular diseases and loss of wealth. It makes lot of sense as Pāṇḍava came her for ṃokśa rather then any material achievement.

According to the hagiographies based on Madhava’s saṃkṣepa ṣankar vijayā, the 8th century philosopher, Sri ādi śankarācārya died at the mountains near Kedāranātha. The ruins of a monument marking the purported death place of Sri ādi śankarācārya are located at Kedāranātha (kedarnath) .

This makes a lot of sense when we study the sthāpatya of the temples it is a ṃokśa dhāma.

The temple has a vali ṃukha below the top shikhara which is a style of nagara temples. You will not find vali in most of the North Indian temples because they were destroyed and rebuilt over years. However, the purest forms can be seen in Himalayan regions where the original style remain intact.

All the above factors point to a fact that this temple is not ordinary in any sense. It was built for attaining spiritual upliftment and was definitely not built by ordinary human beings.

Studying the topography of this region and the temple, it seems that someone was definitely been aspiring for moksha and was walking towards the same . Those representatives of panca tattvas built this colossal structure to establish their feat in search of ṃokśa.