What better day to go sightseeing if not on Sunday? After lunch
guide in hand we decided to visit the area of \u200b\u200bthe temples of Bhubaneswar. The choice was not difficult because the only thing for which this city is famous for its high density of temples, about 500. For this reason it is called the "city of temples".
reach the area is a difficult task. First we have to leave home and go through the road. It is not easy as it sounds: there are no crosswalks or traffic lights or roundabouts, you just have the right amount of patience, timing, courage and rashness to jump in traffic at the right time neurotic. And when I say neurotic is not a way to automatically adjective traffic whizzing resources of all kinds here: Tir bulky full of stones, car-trailer loads of wood beams that significantly exceed the length of the vehicle, bicycles are also overloaded of long bamboo canes, scooters with 3 or 4 passengers and then to cars, autorisciò to the cows, the real master of the road. All occupy the roadway as he was so completely random, si sorpassa ad entrambi i lati e spesso ci sono veicoli in contro senso. Sembra di stare in uno di quei videogiochi dei primi anni 90 in cui la rana deve attraversare l’autostrada.
Una volta attraversato la strada, ad accoglierci dall’altra parte c’è un accozzaglia di autorisciò convinti di fare affari d’oro con i ricchi turisti bianchi. Inizia la contrattazione della tariffa per raggiungere il la nostra meta. Ora invece sembra di essere alla borsa di Tokio, sempre nei primi anni 90: mani al vento, urla, spinte tra gli autisti per accaparrarsi il ricco bottino, sputi a terra, segnali in codice, numeri e gesti che dovrebbero aiutare a colmare il gap linguistico ma che pare aumentino solo la confusione. The initial figure from which the shaft is 200 rupees, after a half hour of trading subsidiary arrive at 70 rupees, the attack on the rich booty white was foiled. Third test to pass: enter all 5 plus the driver in a autorisciò that can hold three seconds rule. Now it seems to be in the program Fabrizio Frizzi "We bet?" That was aired, guess when? In the early 90's! Just
parties understand that now is not the time to claim victory. The guy says that will take us to Lingaraj Mandir ... but I had specifically told to go to Parasumaresvara Mandir! The path I had carefully prepared: from oldest to newest temple to note the evolution of style. We discuss all the way, he says he does not know the time indicated by me and tells me that the Lingaraj is very nice, I showed him the map and the path to another temple, then he stops to ask for information but it seems that no one knows. At this point I also began to doubt the reliability of my Rough Guides. In short, leads us to the end where he says.
The area is very suggestive: pilgrims in traditional clothing, seniors with a long beard and the look
essay in the shade of a big tree, painted their faces half-naked holy men, women and children seeking charity. Stop at the temple entrance, the entrance is forbidden to non-Hindu. This makes me think a bit '... but I have to be Indian to be industrial strength? You can convert to Hinduism or something inherited like the Jews? In this case, who tells you that I have not converted? And then there is not even a true form of the conversion, there is no particular ritual for how this could be our sacraments, there is a doctrine, a central body that manages our church as part of the "administrative" There are millions of of worship and not all the same, there are different value systems and beliefs and everyone has their own rituals. So I say, just follow the "eternal truths" contained in the Vedas and the Agamas, follow up and pursue the Dharma, believe in the law of karma and moksha, practicing the worship inner and outer purify every stage of life with due samskaras and do not eat cow meat and become a Hindu? On the other hand, however, is the discourse of caste, which is now secularized, and in addition some would argue that Hinduism is not a religion as we understand it, but a socio-cultural system inextricably linked to the history of India. And then all the Hare Krishna-who go around all dressed in festive orange to sing in the streets of our capitals of Europe?
They can be defined as Hindu or not? They could enter the temple here in India? And if I marry an Indian and I take my son can get Indian citizenship? Answers to these questions I have not found yet, but they, the Hindus, who go a bit 'more about the practical, they found a loophole to admire their temples to tourists magic sheep. For non-Hindu tourists was built a viewing platform that sits on the wall of the temple. We climb accompanied by a boy in exchange for 50 rupees explains a little 'history of the temple and Hinduism. I actually am more interested in her outfit: a simple cloth around the vita, deve essere molto fresco e ti puoi permettere di non indossare le mutande; chissà come starei io con un telo di questi, chissà se ne comprerò mai uno quando arriverò al punto di strapparmi anche i capelli per il caldo.
guide in hand we decided to visit the area of \u200b\u200bthe temples of Bhubaneswar. The choice was not difficult because the only thing for which this city is famous for its high density of temples, about 500. For this reason it is called the "city of temples".
reach the area is a difficult task. First we have to leave home and go through the road. It is not easy as it sounds: there are no crosswalks or traffic lights or roundabouts, you just have the right amount of patience, timing, courage and rashness to jump in traffic at the right time neurotic. And when I say neurotic is not a way to automatically adjective traffic whizzing resources of all kinds here: Tir bulky full of stones, car-trailer loads of wood beams that significantly exceed the length of the vehicle, bicycles are also overloaded of long bamboo canes, scooters with 3 or 4 passengers and then to cars, autorisciò to the cows, the real master of the road. All occupy the roadway as he was so completely random, si sorpassa ad entrambi i lati e spesso ci sono veicoli in contro senso. Sembra di stare in uno di quei videogiochi dei primi anni 90 in cui la rana deve attraversare l’autostrada.
Una volta attraversato la strada, ad accoglierci dall’altra parte c’è un accozzaglia di autorisciò convinti di fare affari d’oro con i ricchi turisti bianchi. Inizia la contrattazione della tariffa per raggiungere il la nostra meta. Ora invece sembra di essere alla borsa di Tokio, sempre nei primi anni 90: mani al vento, urla, spinte tra gli autisti per accaparrarsi il ricco bottino, sputi a terra, segnali in codice, numeri e gesti che dovrebbero aiutare a colmare il gap linguistico ma che pare aumentino solo la confusione. The initial figure from which the shaft is 200 rupees, after a half hour of trading subsidiary arrive at 70 rupees, the attack on the rich booty white was foiled. Third test to pass: enter all 5 plus the driver in a autorisciò that can hold three seconds rule. Now it seems to be in the program Fabrizio Frizzi "We bet?" That was aired, guess when? In the early 90's! Just parties understand that now is not the time to claim victory. The guy says that will take us to Lingaraj Mandir ... but I had specifically told to go to Parasumaresvara Mandir! The path I had carefully prepared: from oldest to newest temple to note the evolution of style. We discuss all the way, he says he does not know the time indicated by me and tells me that the Lingaraj is very nice, I showed him the map and the path to another temple, then he stops to ask for information but it seems that no one knows. At this point I also began to doubt the reliability of my Rough Guides. In short, leads us to the end where he says.
The area is very suggestive: pilgrims in traditional clothing, seniors with a long beard and the look
essay in the shade of a big tree, painted their faces half-naked holy men, women and children seeking charity. Stop at the temple entrance, the entrance is forbidden to non-Hindu. This makes me think a bit '... but I have to be Indian to be industrial strength? You can convert to Hinduism or something inherited like the Jews? In this case, who tells you that I have not converted? And then there is not even a true form of the conversion, there is no particular ritual for how this could be our sacraments, there is a doctrine, a central body that manages our church as part of the "administrative" There are millions of of worship and not all the same, there are different value systems and beliefs and everyone has their own rituals. So I say, just follow the "eternal truths" contained in the Vedas and the Agamas, follow up and pursue the Dharma, believe in the law of karma and moksha, practicing the worship inner and outer purify every stage of life with due samskaras and do not eat cow meat and become a Hindu? On the other hand, however, is the discourse of caste, which is now secularized, and in addition some would argue that Hinduism is not a religion as we understand it, but a socio-cultural system inextricably linked to the history of India. And then all the Hare Krishna-who go around all dressed in festive orange to sing in the streets of our capitals of Europe? 
La vista da quassù è comunque interessante. Alla sommità delle costruzioni si distingue perfettamente l’amla, la sfera scalanata ed appiattita sostenuta dai grifoni e incoronata dal tridente di Shivala, tipico simbolo dell’Orissa. Il Lingaraji è tuttora un luogo di culto molto attivo. Il santuario interno contiene il “lingam svayambhu”, uno dei dodici santuari di Lord Shiva dell’India, considerato metà Shiva e metà Vishnu, una commistione alquanto particolare.
Continuando il percorso costeggiando il Bindu Sagar, un lago artificiale che si dice contenga acqua attinta da tutti i principali fiumi sacri del mondo. E’ un importante luogo di abluzioni per pellegrini e per lo stesso Dio Lingaraji. Al momento, qualcuno un po’ più profano invece lo sta usando per un rito meno spirituale ma comunque molto saggio: pescare.
Affacciato sul fiume si apre è l’ingresso di un altro tempio. Qui invece entriamo tranquillamente e subito ci
ritroviamo immersi in un atmosfera molto suggestiva. All’interno l’ambiente è buio e molto umido, l’odore di spezie e marcio è molto forte, la sporcizia a terra ha letteralmente ricoperto il pavimento di cotto. Alcuni pregano, altri meditano all’esterno all’ombra di un albero, altri si muovono frettolosamente verso una porticina laterale. Scopriamo che da lì si accede a piccole strutture che fungono da cucine. Cucinano per la divinità. Questo è l’aspetto più grottesco del tempio; cucinano in continuazione miscugli vari da offrire come dono alla divinità, ma la divinità non pare apprezzare molto dato che i recipienti di terracotta rimangono accatastati stracolmi ai piedi della icona sacra, creando a loro volta un monumento alla salmonellosi.
stroll among the houses, cows and one of the boys playing cricket wherever it happens until you reach a small green park, the first spot of careful and intense green that I see that you can lie down without getting dirty. Around the park is open 3 other temples, all quite crowded. There is also a funny character who is sitting at the entrance of one of them to scribble on a notepad, trying to sell his doodles to the few tourists who go to see there. I wonder if his idea works, in which case you know how I could earn even if I had put on the market all the sheets that I had before during long phone calls from the landline at home. Without doubt scribbles have great charm, a charm that excites and intrigues. The allure of the mysterious and incomprehensible. Jung called them "the spontaneous self-representation of the current situation of the unconscious expressed in symbolic form." Then I read that the Vedas (Hindu scriptures) are the creation of an ancient mind-intuitive and symbolic ... Is he that shines when doodle Hindu my part? If the next time I bring a notebook used maybe make me go into the temple!
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