Trekking - It makes you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Taradevi temple is located on Tarav Parvat in the western side of Shimla town in Himachal Pradesh. The location of the temple on the hill top makes it appear that the Goddess Maa Tara Devi seems to keep everyone under the protective gaze , showering innumerable blessings on her worshipers.
The history of this temple dates back to 250 years when the temple was built here. There is a belief that goddess Tara was brought to Himachal Pradesh all the way from eastern state of Bengal. Hundred of years ago , a king from Sen Dynasty visited this area. This king had his family deity in the form of a small gold idol encased in a locket,which he always wore on his upper arm. For many years the idol remained encased but in the 96th generation of sen dynasty, had an unusual experience while hunting in deep forest nearby the temple, where he had a vision of his holly family deity, Maa TARA along with her dwarpal Bhairav and Hanuman Ji who expressed her keen desire to be unveiled before the people. The raja immediately donated 50 bighas of land and got constructed a temple there.
I went to this holy temple in 2013, when I was doing my industrial training during my graduation in Shimla. We were 9 people there during our industrial training. It was Sunday and I was gone to my relatives home in solan(Himachal Pradesh) for the weekend. Then suddenly I got a call from my friend Neha that we are going to the temple and we will meet you in Shogi nearby Shimla. I got ready to go for temple. But I reached Shogi earlier than my friends and I tried to contact them, but I was not able to connect. There was a metaled road going to the temple and there was also a trek to the temple. I decided to go through trek to get a close view of nature.
I was almost alone when I was moving towards the temple through the trek. It was an amazing experience for me as I had never been single gone on any trek earlier. I reached the temple earlier than my friends who were comming through road by bus. Then we assembled there on the top and moved towards the temple.
We then went into the temple. We were feeling positive wives there. We also ate Bhandara there, which was organised by the local people there. After having our lunch we decided to move back , but now we were planning to go through another trek which could lead us to nearby shimla directly. It was an awesome trek, rather it was small but included a great touch of nature.
After walking through the Jungle we reached nearby railway line which comes under the national heritage. It was a great experience for me to visit that temple through trek. When someone goes to Queen of Hills Shimla , one must visit this place to take blessings of goddess and also to get in close touch with nature.
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