Spiritual Quest in David Snellgrove's Himalayan Pilgrimage
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Abstract
This travelogue shows the adversities, hardships and ordeals of adventures to
those whom are ready to make the journey along the paths of life taking difficulties to
acquire the unknown treasures of wisdom, knowledge and spirituality. The author of
the Himalayan Pilgrimage and protagonist, David Snell grove has also explored the
spiritual quest in the highland for the seven month and finds out that the journey to
hidden and organic places of Himalayan which is widely celebrating phenomenon as
the process of being the ordinary people to Buddha or normal people to hero once
they have succeeded their mission. Snell grove has tirelessly travelled at the
Himalayas by believing that there could be the tremendous healing treasures for
human being which definitely transform from the worst to the best.Along the
adventure he has faced unbelievable suffering and come over with a very new
spiritual life with equipping massive qualities and quantities of gifts or boons from the
Himalayan pilgrimage. Specially he has kept research and analyzes the rites and
rituals of Tibetan's Buddhist and understood that their religious beliefs and devotions
are extremely strong and praiseworthy.Ultimately his motive is achieved as the hero
does to discover the truth of;fact and myth,history and story, then reality and fantasy
etc. which are remaining there at the very Himalayan range.
Keywords: Adventure,Exploration, Adversities,Religions, Transformation,
Spirituality, Natural-supernatural knowledge.
