omkareshwar temple (1)

This is one of those things you only fully appreciate when you see it from above.

Omkareshwar sits on an island called Mandhata, and the natural shape of that island formed by the Narmada and Kaveri rivers meeting around it resembles the Om symbol. It wasn't designed this way. The rivers carved it over centuries. That is what makes it extraordinary no architect planned this. Geography did.

The temple itself sits at the center of that formation, which is why this Jyotirlinga carries a different kin

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