I would like to share the joy of my trip to Antharvedi covering Bheemavaram , Palakol, Narsapur and many other small green villages in between...
More than the "Greenary" in fields I liked "Whiteness"( fair and plain ) in hearts of the people there...let me explain...I felt guilty of myself many a times by very much unpolluted and plain heart of people there...starting from an auto driver to a landlord..a small vendor to a police officer etc
To mention as a small example...we generally call share auto as service auto some times but they do it as "real service" there...
They deny money from children, old aged, physically disabled and dont mind giving a drop if some one says that he is helpless to offer money.
You might have heard
" It is not important how much you can tolerate but it is important how you behave while you tolerate "....among a dozen people I have observed, no one did show impatience when some one have no money to offer them..instead with true heart said..." Ponle babai...nuvvekithe naa auto arigipoinda enti..vellu..jagratha"...After having darshan in famous Mahankali temple in Bheemavam ,(where my camera was taken for trying to take photographs and given back after 10m by concerned authorities) I tried to take an auto to busstand which is only 1.5km distant..
Few auto valas advised me that it is walkable( but no one tried to hire me and charge more for their business) one took me there in his auto and suprisingly asked Rs.5/-..when I had no change..he said.."ponledndi...ooru choodataniki vatchara ..mari okkalle vatchare...sare jagratha" and left without waiting for me to get change for him even with out listeing to me when I was trying to stop him
Coming to the actual topic of my trip
Morning at arround 8:30 , started at Vijayawada for Bheemavaram and reached there by 12PM..
After having darshan in famous Mahankali temple there,reached palakol by bus...From there I had a little journey through many green fileds and lakes to Sikanodu...
From there had a journey in a share...sorry... sorry service auto :-) to malkipuram with a group of old satirists ( that is funfilled -general-default way of dealing of poeple there I guess..which I enjoyed a lot)
From malkipuram I reached Antharvedi in another auto..had darshan and gotranamrchana there on my family and aunt's family's name .
I had to wait for half an hour to go to boat for reaching the mouth of the river Godavari..
In the meanwhile I became sillent spectator for lot of analysis going on various topics like future of state,political parties,whose gonna come to power next time etc among a fruit vendor , car driver and two police men with some betting as well...It reminded of a lesson in 8th standard called "The Mass cocktale"..:-)I thoroughly enjoyed journey along the river...I felt really excited when the boat reached the mouth of the river...tiny shock waves were also thrilling...
Vyasa maharshi temple is worth watching..my journey ended at 6:50 when I caught train to Vijayawada in Narsapur...
Though I did the journey alone, I never felt as such.This is like a starter which increased my appetite for river journey..really looking forward to see paapikondalu soon...Thanks
Gopi Gandi.
