Maa Balasundari Temple to Renuka Lake – Distance/Travel Time

• • Himachal Pradesh, Sirmaur • Tags: ,

We started our journey via the Royal Enfield Thunderbird motorbike from Maa Balasundari temple at 10 am. After driving approx. 33 km we stop at Renuka Do Sadka at 11:10 am for breakfast. From here Renuka Lake is approx. 28 km. Finally, we reached Renuka Lake at 12:30 noon hours.

The total distance between Maa Balasundari Temple and Renuka Lake is approx. 62 km.

The total Journey Hours from Maa Balasundari Temple to Renuka Lake is 2 hours 30 minutes.

Chandigarh to Maa Balasundari Temple – Distance/Journey Time

• • Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Sirmaur • Tags:

Chandigarh > Zirakpur (10 km)

Zirakpur > Dera Bassi (8 km)

Dera Bassi > Raipur Rani (20 km)

Raipur Rani > Naraingarh (17 km)

Naraingarh > Kala Amb Barrier (11 km)

(turn left from Kala Amb Barrier)

Kala Amb Barrier > Balasundari jee Temple (7 km)

The total distance from Chandigarh to Maa Balasundari Temple (Trilokpur) is 73 Km.

We started our journey by Royal Enfield Thunderbird motorbike at 8:00 am and reached the temple at 9:30 am.

How to Deal with Monkeys?

• • Himachal Pradesh, Shimla • Tags:
How to Deal with Monkeys

What to do when faced with a monkey?

If the monkey pounces on you to snatch the food item, instead of fighting with the monkey, throw the food item away.

Don’t scare the monkeys, don’t run, but stand straight comfortably.

If you are walking, taking care of the monkey, open your arms and hands with ease and keep your mouth and eyes towards the ground and move out slowly from there.

Protect the natural habitat of monkeys.

What not to do:- Monkeys get irritated by showing food items to them and then pulling them back, don’t do this. Do not run in the direction of the monkeys or away from them. Do not go near to monkeys, do not tease them, and do not be afraid of them. Don’t make eye contact with monkeys, don’t laugh when looking at them, and don’t show teeth to them, because monkeys consider them a challenge and can attack in response. Offer your cooperation in solving the monkey problem by not giving food items to monkeys in public places.

A Brief History of Mata Bala Sundari Temple, Trilokpur

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A Brief History of Mata Bala Sundari Temple (Trilokpur, Himachal Pradesh, India)

The establishment of the temple of Mata Bala Sundari ji was done by King Pradeep Prakash in the sixteenth century in the Sirmour District. There are different legends about the establishment of this temple. It is said that in the year 1573 A. D. i.e. in Samvat 1630 there was a shortage of salt in the Sirmour district. Most of the salt had to be brought from a place called Deoband in Saharanpur, which is today a town in the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Once when Ramdas Mahajan brought salt from Saharanpur, even after selling salt for the whole day, the sack of salt was not empty at all. Ramdas was shocked and upset. He did not understand the matter. The same night he had a divine vision of Mataji in his dream. Mother said that I have come in the form of a Pindi in your sack of salt. You build my grand temple and establish me here ‘You will be reformed’. Ramdas discussed the dream in the court, King Pradeep Prakash ordered the temple to be built there.

According to another legend, there was a Peepal Tree in front of Lala Ramdas’s house. There he used to offer water and fruits and flowers every day. Once a fierce storm came and the tree was uprooted. A Pindi appeared in place of that tree. Ramdas brought that Pindi home and started worshiping after bathing it. Pleased with his devotion, the mother appeared to him in his dream and asked him to build a temple. Ramdas ji discussed the dream with the king who devotedly built the temple in Trilokpur. The temple was renovated twice in 1823 by Raja Fateh Prakash and in 1851 by Raja Raghubeer Prakash.