As we didn’t get the Darshan the previous night, we decided to get in the queue by 230AM. This means I had to wake up by 130, freshen up and ready to leave by 215.
We reached by 250 AM and made it to the queue by 3AM.
4AM, the general Darshan of the Kashi Vishwanath mandir begins. The queue started moving slowly. After about 4.5 hours of walking for the Lord, around 7am, I was told that I was still a kilometer away from the entrance of the temple. However the queue had come to a standstill for over 30 mins.
I spoke to a person who came out after his Darshan on how much more time it’s going to take? A minimum of 4 more hours he said. I calculated the pending time and the time for our train. Decided to come back to our room & rest.
Darshan did not happen today.
Felt like Lord Vishwanath wasn’t okay me seeing him this time & probably wants me to come back again to visit him.
After coming back from a tiring morning wait in the queue, I did my daily meditation routine and slept.
Slept till 1030 AM.
Checked out from our room, ate at the same place and headed to Varanasi railway station for Prayagraj.
At the station we were joined by Sandyakka and Shruti from Bengaluru. Now we were four of us.
Train was delayed by 30 mins. The Vande Bharat left at 330 PM from Varanasi and reached Prayagraj by 4:36PM. As we were crossing the bridges on the train reaching the station, we noticed thousands tents and millions of people walking towards Sangam.
We walked about a km or two from the station before we saw some transport. None of the cabs and tuk-tuks were willing to cooperate with us and drop us off at our camps in the banks of Mata Ganga.
Miraculously Sandyakka found few bikes who were willing to drop to our destination. But with our luggage it was a problem.

Important tips for visiting Kumbh
- Try to see if you come with a prior plan of transport for pickup and drop
- in any case avoid heavy luggage, trolleys can be avoided if you can manage with backpack
- get warm clothes( gets cold at night)
I was a bit disappointed about being not able to make it to my gurus Satsang. But I with to at least see Him at least and I did ❤️

After dinner, we backed to our room and are getting to bed.
Looking forward to the the holy dips in Prayagraj, spend time with my Guru and also explore different akhadas / spots in the Mela tomorrow.
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