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Tara Devi Temple, Shoghi, Shimla, India

Situated 1851 meters above sea level, Tara Devi temple is situated on the Tara Devi Mountain between Shoghi and Shimla. The location of the temple on the Hill top makes it appear that the goddess seems to keep everyone  under the protective gaze ,showering  innumerable  blessings on her worshippers From here one can get a panoramic view of Shimla and snow-clad Himalayan range on one side, with the other side revealing the plains at a far distance.

With the majestic forested mountains around, this place has high spiritual value that has a soothing and rejuvenating effect, being away from the din, noise, pollution, crowd and urban infrastructure.

The Tata Devi temple has a great spiritual and heritage value. The temple was built approximately 250 years ago. The road connectivity of the temple from Shoghi recently has increased the devotees coming to this temple manifold. The road has also helped to boost up the construction and development activities at the temple. New langar halls, kitchens and other facilities for the devotees have been added at a fast pace. The langar is served every Sunday, and is generally offered by the devotees who have pledged to do so after fulfillment of their wishes.

There are two routes to go to this temple.

Mountain walk

The best way to appreciate the mountains in Shimla India is by taking a scenic walk.

This is from Shimla end and the walk starts from Tara Devi station on the national highway 7 kms before Shimla. From this place one has to walk / trek about 4 kilometers to reach the temple. When out walking, it is recommended that you do not wander off the tracks and that you wear sensible, comfortable shoes or sneakers. The meandering foot path to the temple is uphill, through the pinewoods and green meadows, accompanied by the chilly mild wind. Atmosphere of the hill rejuvenates the pilgrims and common tourists visiting this sacred temple.

Walk Grade
Easy to medium: May not be suitable for all ages, some steps and inclines; for people who walk occasionally. Distance about 4 kilometers

By road

The second one is from Shoghi 13 kilometers before Shimla on the national highway. The temple is about six kilometers from this place and is connected by road. If you do not want to trek to the temple this is the best option. Government buses and taxis are available to go to this place. The road to the temple is narrow and inclined with lots of U turns and it needs an expert driver to  drive the vehicle from Shoghi to Tara Devi temple.  Tourists with less experience of this kind are advised to avoid this drive themselves. The temple is about 200 meters from the parking near the temple

There is also a mountain walk route to go to the temple from Shoghi also, but the other route from Shimla end is much better compared to this.

Walk Grade

Hard: Steep steps and inclines; for people who walk regularly. Visitors with heart or respiratory problems should not attempt these walk. Distance 2.5 kilometers.

 

Stay in Shimla

Sunrise Villa Shoghi Shimla is a good homestay budget hotel in Shimla. It is located at Shoghi on the road going towards Tara Devi temple. Shoghi is 13 kms before Shimla. The railway line crosses near Sunrise Villa. Refer Shimla city guide for travelling to Shimla

 

Travel to Shimla

The train to Shimla (UNESCO listed heritage toy train) is the best option to travel to Shimla. Check the Shimla Kalka rail time table to plan this trip

 

The Kansas Jayhawks ran their home court winning streak to 30 with a 71-59 win over Temple. The Owls were coming off of an upset over Tennessee last week, but they couldn't stop Sherron Collins yesterday.

Collins scored 19 points and dished out 6 assists to lead KU. Cole Aldrich added 13 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.Tyshawn Taylor had 11 points, 8 assists and 4 steals. Brady Morningstar also scored 11.

KU is now 8-2 on the season. They are 6-3 all-time against Temple. Bill Self won his 150th game as head coach for KU.

Kansas will travel to take on Arizona on Tuesday.

Well, my girlfriend has been on my case to post again, and I have a few minutes right now to do so.

The most significant event in my life right now is the advent of Katies' return. The apostrophe goes where it does because both of them are coming back. (Speaking of Apostrophe, Hook was on last night. DANG I forgot how much I love that movie!!!)

That's right. The Katies are returning to Utah Valley and attending UVU for the spring semester. I'm turning in Kate's application today, in fact. We've signed up for a bunch of classes together and hope that she gets into them all. They've found an appartment they really want and have their eyes on a few more if they can't get that one (they REALLY want that one! It's a stone's throw away from Hannah's dorm and is incredibly cheap). They plan on working on campus and I'll get to see them all the time and life will be wonderful. I'm really looking forward to that!

Let's see...what else...oh yeah. HR came after Darel again, and he's basically told me that I am going to be fired at the end of April. He says that he doesn't like it but he can't fight it any more. He's already been VERY merciful and I know that his guaranteeing my job this long has been better than I should expect. So, that sucks, but at least I have plenty of heads up. I can't tell you how grateful I am that Darel has fought this long to keep me.

I'm going to take time out of this post to comment on the times. Retrospective readers will look at this post and note that it comes in the weeks following the passing of Proposition 8 in California. The Church has been the biggest and most vocal supporter of the proposition, donating millions of dollars to aid its passing. The persecution that ensued has been monstrous. If there was ever any relevance to the pro-homosexuality movement as the modern civil rights movement, all credibility for that status has been lost with the desecration of the holy temple. Activists flood the gates every day and spread their "pro-tollerance" rhetoric all over the gates. People climb the gates and graffiti the temple walls. They turn violent whenever anybody tries to remove the signs. This is not the reawakened unity and non-violence we saw come out of the fifties under Martin Luther King (a reverend). No. This is new Missouri.

I bring this up because anybody watching is seeing it finally begin to happen. The signs of the times have been imminent for a hundred years, but never TOO imminent because we've always expected a mass polarization, when the forces of evil from all ends of the socio-political spectrum unite in one mass stand against the church. Obviously that's still a long ways off, but it's definitely beginning. Suddenly, taking a firm stance requires a little courage. Faith is being tested like never before in my lifetime. I'm sure this is only a tiny shadow the real end of times, but one would have to blind not to see this as a step in that direction. As terrifying as it all is, it's also very exciting.

Hang on. I've gotta lab hop.
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Okay. Half a day later, let's try and get back to the point.

It's weird that a constitutional amendment in California is affecting the tentative truce of religious opinion all the way in Utah.  Days after the election results were posted, my institute building had an entire wall full of anti-mormon graffiti, weak sauce though it was. Persecution again. We must be doing something right. And we see the hand of God working everywhere against our oppressors.

Areas very near the LA temple, which has caught the brunt of the anti-8 reverberation, are now completely engulfed in flame. Those mountains see a lot of fires, but this one has the whole community in a panic because of its proximity to the residences. It has already consumed achres and achres of residential land. As a result, the community cannot focus on political rallies; they're worried about their homes. Thank heavens nobody has yet been seriously injured, as far as I know. I am, of course, in no position to state God's purposes or their role in events such as this. Yet, it gives one pause to recollect the cleansing of the Jerusalem Temple by Christ himself in the New Testament. Is this not the same God that took a bullwhip to the moneychangers?

Yet, much of the anti-8 community feels very threatened. Alisa sought me early this morning. She felt frightened. Her delicate coexistance of faith and sexuality had been again thrown out of balance, and she sought comfort. I don't expect she liked what I had to say. Though I tried to be sensitive, loving, and comforting to my life-long friend, I did not bite when she called the actions of the church into question. I stood in a room with President Monson, the councilors and the twelve and raised my hand. Though the ferocity of the church's involvement in this issue surprised me, I stand by the decisions of my leaders because I believe they speak for Christ on earth. I was sympathetic to her plight, supportive and caring, but I was also honest. Those that pass judgement on homosexuals or anybody else for that matter are not at all within their rights. And yet principles, unlike people and all their circumstances, are absolute.

The point that I'm failing to get to is that this whole experience has revitalized the practical element of a latent testimony. Though I have always believed, it has been a long time since my actions have reflected my faith. Lines are beginning to be drawn, and people are being forced to take sides. Well I know what side I'm on. I just needed a little wake-up call and this was it.

I'm probably going to tag this post. The moment I do, anti-mormon rhetoric will flood my inbox. But I don't care. I've heard it all before and it doesn't bother me. I know where I stand and I know why, and not even the most ingenuous blogger can change that.

Israel "palestine" 101

BLOODSHED

'Violence on both sides'? Fair & more accurate is to say that there's so much blood on the Arab Palestinian hands, whether directly on Israelis or on their own civilian population by using them as shields when firing on Israel.


'PALESTINIANS' FORCING TO SHOOT AT CIVILIANS

Though Israel goes through great length to avoid hitting any by stander, the coward criminal 'Palestinians' know very well how so cynically to use their own people as human shields, their favorite ones are their kids.

REALITY CHECK

[To those that think they have an "even handed" view on the middle east by saying: 'They have a good cause but they go wrong about it using violence', ] 'Palestinian' Islamists have in mass murder in itself of non Muslims especially of Jews, a "sacred" goal ( http://pmw.org.il ).


THE CORE = HATRED

This ABC of their bloodshed is rarely an issue on a any public international forum the seeds of he violence: their horrific hate education ( http://teachkidspeace.org ) relentless incitement & glorification of mass murder.


NOTHING BUT RACISM - BEHIND SINGLING OUT ISRAEL'S "RIGHT"

The very singling out of Israel and questioning it's right to even exist, amounts of racism.
Shall we go back to every single country on this planet's past, and 'occupations' claims?
How about the fact that most Arabs' ancestors there, were merely immigrating in the 1880's to Israel - Jews' historic homeland?

ARABS', MUSLIMS' GENOCIDE OBJECTIVES & GENOCIDE BOMBERS, SPELL IT OUT

While all terrorism is not justified and it's totally outrageous, the 'Palestinian' Arab Muslim bombers that target mainly the most crowded unarmed civilians with the clear plan to 'murder as many as possible' is a clear genocide campaign, only reaffirms their statements that declare openly on annihilation.


EARLY HATRED & BLOODSHED

The problem is again hatred that started with first Arabs' attack on Jews there in 1886 Petach Tikva, then through Hitler's buddy the mufti's massacres in Hebron, Safed, etc. in the 1920's.


RADICALISM - ONLY THE ARAB MUSLIMS' SIDE PROBLEM

A. The most "radical Israeli" that his entire radicalism amounts to reorganizing of neighborhoods for security purposes is far more moderate than the average 'Palestinian' that supports genocide bombing on Israeli civilians.

B. While you might find SOME isolated rare (true to the definition or not of) "radicals" among Israelis, they're rejected in mainstream Israel or mainstream Jews, whereas Arab Muslim Palestinian society only encourages these real most dangerous militants and vote for them in high numbers.


DON'T BLAME THE DEFENDER!

And never blame the police that chases down (terrorists) mass murderers.

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The obvious, or the 'should be obvious'

This is not really all about the Arab Muslim world, who's anti
Israel feeling and action is motivated (not by any feeling to help
fellow Arab Muslims, fact is, the Arab "Palestinians" are persecuted all
throughout the Arab world) by Arab racism (just as the Kurds,
Maronites, Sudanese and other non Arabs suffer from the global
Arabization) & Islamofascism or Islamic-Fascism, the evil ideology
as Tony Blair calls it (just as non Muslims in general, dhimmi or
kuffars, non-believers suffer, global wide, take it straight from the horse's
mouth, the Iranian fanatical Islamic leader Ahmadinejad's call for genocide &
ethnic cleansing on Israel that though has no regional or territorial disputes
with Iran of course, "doesn't belong on 'Muslim land', in the all Muslim middle
east", this anti-Israel facsism still infects most moderate Muslim countries
that blindly refuse entry to anyone with an Israeli passport).

Nor is it about the few neo/old Nazis that hate all Jews
(even those that tell you they hate "only
Zionists").

But this is about the bigotry of
anti-Israel infected in the mainstream.



Jumping to conclusion before knowing the facts

This happens on a regular basis, but a few examples might serve as
highlights if you wish:

The rush into harsh words by UN's Secretary general Kofi Annan
(before he semi-apologized for it) when some UN officials got hurt in the
cross fire between Huzbullah terrorists and Israeli defense forces (Hezbullah
initiated war and invasion 2006), even after realizing that the UN post was used
by the Huzbullah as a tool.

The overwhelming bashing Israel in Arabs' deaths, like the very icon the
"Palestinian" propaganda machine used, as in the Arab kid Muhammad al-Dura
(2002), which we all know by now, was nothing more than staged by Arabs
themselves, and it was Arab shooters that killed that boy.

The rushing media in "blaming Israel" for the death of an Arab family on
Gaza beach (2006), again Israel promised/asked to wait until a full
investigation is complete, that concluded it was the "Palestinian" Hamas' led
mines that brought about that incident.

No matter how many times the media sees the transparency in the fake images
produced and invented by the 'Palestinians', "PALLYWOOD" (http://seconddraft.org/), it seems to
"forget", each time a new case appears.

Demanding from Israel the victim of terror more than from the
perpetrator



The words an anti-Israel 'activist' told me, resonates throughout this
conflict: "I can't expect from the Arabs any better, but Israel/ should know
better!".

In other words, it is part of demanding from the west ever more then from
the Islamic world, when it comes to morality.

The only problem is that it is not presented in this open way, it is
presented as Israel is the "bad" guy, period.

As opposed to endless condemnations by the UN on Israel's self defense,
When was the last time the UN has condemned the very Arab "Palestinian" crimes
on their own people that they try to pin on Israel, like:

Using it's kids as human shields (which Huzbullah, in 2006, picked up very
quickly, copied them in their war on Israeli civilians, using Arab civilians)
and as human bombs?

Legitimizing and even glorifying mass murder and genocide as a 'good holy
act' in their mainstream and official media?

The Lie of "natives" is bought



How many have fallen prey to the powerful sell of "indigenous" Arabs in the
land of the Judea?

The picture of an all out 'Arabs in the middle east', is one of the
misconception misleading clarity of history, never forget that most today's
'Palestinians' have no more than 3 generations "history" in this ancient land of
the Jews.

Absolutely no one has disputed the fact of Arab immigration that saw an
upsurge with Zionists' immigration (the latter only, limited by the British) in
the late 1800.

The fact that the most "Palestinian" - icon of all time: Yasser Arafat
was an Egyptian born fighting for "his homeland" in Israel... is so
classical.

By the same token, it is not well known the fact that over 50% Israeli
Jews are of children of indigenous Jews in the middle east (http://jimena.org/) .



The Global Goliath Islamo Arab power



The very fact that there was so much talk and selecting/picking on one lobby
out of so many different types and different interests - lobbies that operate in
Washington but the utter silence on the enormous Islamo Arab lobby that
basically occupies, threatens, incorporating so many in their anti-Israel racist
boycott, uses oil as a weapon and dictates the international arena, including
the UN, shows you just how great of bully they are.

So is the fear of European nations for unrest by the Arab Muslim
(immigrant) population, (terrorism works!) that effects or rather impairs their
stand on the middle east conflict.


The wrong picture of seeing Israel as the "aggressor" and the
'Palestinian Arabs' as the "underdog"



Question # 1:

Who has more power, the cynical Arab adult shooting behind a kid's back,
behind a woman's squirt, or the Israeli humane soldier facing a terrible
dilemma?



Question # 2

When you see the biased media showing a tank vs. kid, A) do you ever
stop and think what the message is behind it? B) Does this suggest
that the Israeli soldier is really after an unarmed person? C) Did you ever
stop to think that the very fact that you can see the Israeli soldier but you
can NOT see the Arab terrorist makes the invisible much more of a menace?



Nothing more like the situation in Iraq (2003-2007)
demonstrates that you might have the most powerful army in the world, you are
weaker (in many ways) than the invisible coward terrorists hiding among
civilians that has no rules of basic regards for ANY human lives.



Outrageous use of baseless drama language and hollow bombastic
terms on Israel's multi-racial beautiful democracy



Take for example the admission of anti Israel Arabist: Jimmy Carter that
(on December , 2006 - CNN) has admitted that Israel is a great democracy with
freedom and equal rights for all, and that (in an interview to Larry King he
said that) he used provocative words like "apartheid" (only) in order to provoke
discussion.

All those bombastic empty words like "racism' or "apartheid" the
anti-Israel Arab racist propaganda machine is selling, has of course no support
in facts on the ground, there is nothing "racist" about fighting terrorists for
being terrorists, there is nothing "apartheid", especially that they are the
same Arab race and group, Israeli Arabs and "Palestinian" Arabs, with different
identification cards that has nothing but security implications.

Since when is concern for security considered "racism"?


The same "Judenrein - Palestine" that is trying to ethnic cleanse all Jews,
that does not even permit any Jew to live in their 'territories', is lecturing
multi-racial, multi-religion, multi-color Israel, that has all colors and
races from the darkest black to the whitest blond, that has a whopping
20-25% Arabs in it's population, with equal rights and representations in high
offices (and even more rights than Jews, giving the fact that Israeli Jews
are obligated to serve in the army whereas Israeli Arabs are not).





The racism behind "questioning" Israel's right to
exist


Can you name one other country that is subject to even a question of
being 'recognized'?

Why do you think it is?

If you want to talk about history as a supposed reason, 1) Even if you are
a naiive student of 'Palestinian' propaganda in revising history, You don't see
anyone denying the unmistakenly settlers like most European, or American or
Australians right to exist. 2) speaking even about history, for the record:
No matter on which political side you are on, you have no right to deny rights
of a nation to exist, no one can ever erase Jews' history to the land of Israel,
at the same breath no one can claim that there was ever a sovereign
Arab-Muslim "Palestine", in fact, the same nazis or Jew-haters that used to tell
the Jews in Europe: 'Go back where you came from, go to Israel-Palestine',
the ones continue the evil torch of Nazism today ironically deny the Jews
coming back to their original roots-origin.


The dehumanization of Israeli victims



Seeing Israel as nothing but a "tank", is another racist element coming
through, in brushing off Israeli victims as a "side details" at best.

When was the last time the BBC (for example) has shown any drama pictures
of injured Israeli kids at a fraction of the time, passion dedicated to any Arab
kid that was killed (usually) because of an Arab adult's fault?

Can you remember reporters of the mainstream media visiting Israeli
hospitals as much as you can remember them strolling down Arab ones? And Why
not?

Numbers are not the reason, percentage wise you will see time and time
again, Israel loses by far in media's favoritism.
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Scapegoating the Zionists

A facsism that learned to 'blame the Zionists' for Arab Muslims' crimes

It is quite interesting how a massacre by Arab Christians on Arab 'Palestinians' in Lebanon 1982, Sabra & Shatila is so typical of "Arabs kill Arabs" and Arabs blame the Jews...

You see it time and time again, you see it in Lebanon today, you see it among "Palestinians", heck, some lunacy fringe of Arabs even "blame the Zionists" in Iraqi Arab on Arab war.

It is not anymore restricted exclusively to the self inflicted 'Palestinians' that invest their entire energy and resources into that death cult, in teaching how "wonderful" it is to mass murder civilians, that death is far more important than life, and then turn around complaining that their economy is in shambles.

So do they blame (December 2006) for the rise into drug trafficking among Arab "Palestinians" that actually bring it in from Lebanon and from Egypt... Not only is their poverty in this context due loss of employment by Israeli Jews that have been evacuated to accomodate "Palestinians" in Gaza give away, but they blame the very Jews that gave them jobs until now... imagine that. (Jobless Gaza Arabs Miss Jewish Employers, Turn to Drugs, Gaza Arabs, left jobless by the Oslo War and by last year's expulsion of Gush Katif farmers, have turned to drugs that are smuggled from Lebanon and Egypt, the United Nations reports. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=118123)

This blame game, copied from old, darkest pages in human history of 'blame the Jew' is copied/adopted by the wider Arab street, it is actually another crime in the Arab world, the culprit are the usual ones, their leaders, of instilling into them for so long the cult of 'conspiracy theories'.

In this ideology, in that jungle, anything bad that happens to Arabs are always the 'fault of the Zionists'.
You can bet on it that if a mullah says tomorrow that the weather is dominated by the Zionists, rest assured, that literally millions in the Muslim world will actually follow his "belief".

Seriously speaking, Did you know that Iranian mullahs have condemned PEPSI Co. because they figured out that the letter "I" stands for Israel?

All laughs aside, those in the west that buy the notion that Arabs' grievances is so based on Zionists' action (to be honest, it is not what Zionists do but how the Arab press "reports" it or incites the Arab street), should rethink their thinking or non-thinking about (Islamists' war on the west way before any actions by the Zionists, such as the genocide on Armenians in 1915, but more on) Islamists' global vision of a Caliphate, I know it is too scary to think about the truth, but sticking you head in the sand (in this case 'blaming the Zionists') doesn't help you.
In fact, even Al Qaeda's Bin Laden didn't use the "Palestinian" card until later appearances, when he was advised that it was way too much of an important tool to be missing.

The Iranian Islamic revolution's war on the west started in 1979 with a grievance against US' support for the Shah, not a word about "Palestinians", until 'Hitler' Ahmadinejad used them in 2005 so conveniently, in his ambition to be the 'Muslim Messiah' and Islamizing the west.
Nor can most major Islamic massacres attacks - around the globe (like, Indonesia, Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UK, Spain, India, Thailand, Philippines, Somalia, etc.) in recent years - be connected to the "Palestine" issue.

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ABC of the MIddle East Conflict

The Overwhelming wrong "Palestinians"

Good VS Evil Israel VS 'palestine'

'Palestinians' Crimes against Humanity

PLASTINIAN, Plast-inian, The Plastic language of the "palestinians"

The Arab racism of playing Israelis' fear of Arab terror as "racism"

Why the IDF is indeed the 'most moral army in the world

ARABIZATION INC. The all out myth of 'all Arabs being natives in all of the middle east'

Arabs love & ABUSE Israeli HUMANE jails, the even 'Faking Attacks to Earn Matriculation Diplomas

Only Arab Leaders' Fault in Displaced "Palestinians"

Pallywood - Gaza beach 2006, an example of how "Palestinian" Arab Muslims kill their own people & try to pin it on Israel in the most dirty tricks known including fake footage and blatant lies

"palestinian" Muslims' War on Christians - YMCA under attack in W. Bank

'Palestinian' Arab Muslims FIRST class citizens in beautiful democrtatic Israel

Again HUMANE & Super- restrained Israel only attacks terrorists after warning to civilians to evacuate

From the Apartheid Arab regimes vs Israel, the super democracy - diary

Washing Jihadi Crimes via 'Palestinian' Crimes?

'Palestinian' Crimes on their Kids, Child abuse, using them as bombs/shields, indoctrination into the death/hate/murder cult & etc.

What makes a 'palestinian' , 'palestinian'?

Some of Arab Muslims' Massacres, Genocide, Terrorism and Jihad, before Israel was Re-Established

'Palestinian' Fake Images Industry

The never-ending vicious 'Palestinian' Arab tactics to tarnish Israel on their kids back

Put the blame where it belongs: The Arab world's crimes on the "Palestinians" (including "apartheid")


The "Palestinians" = favorite tool by Islamofascism

US Aid to hostile Arab Countries VS Israel's aid to the US

Fascism & Idiocy are a natural part of 'palestinian' Arab Muslim Sick Cult

Israel, Good VS Evil, While Arab "Palestinians" are greedy for higher salaries, Israel takes care of sick Arab children...

The real Ethnic Cleansing, by Arab Muslims of course (past & present)

Hamastan, Hamas for dummies

Arab Muslim ( & even Palestinian) "Goliath" VS Israel "David"

IDF - Humanitarian


The larger (global) problem of:
Arab Racism, Islamism, Arabization, etc.