| ling for many is a way of unwinding and recharging | | | | This part of the world where Lord Buddha became |
| their batteries but often at the end of one's travel | | | | enlightened has become the home of a giant complex |
| there is still a feeling of not feeling satisfied which is | | | | called the Mahabodhi Temple. |
| when it pays to consider spiritual travel as a means of | | | | This particular place is truly exceptional as the |
| finding fulfillment. Sometimes, all the Gothic cathedrals in | | | | surroundings are serenity personified and everything |
| the world and all the lovely Madonna portraits are not | | | | here is absolutely peaceful so as to promote true |
| enough to lift up your spirits and so it pays to consider | | | | spiritualistic experiences. It is here that monks read the |
| traveling to a place where you can find spiritual | | | | Holy Scriptures and spend their time contemplating the |
| awakening. | | | | complexities and meaning of life. |
| Spiritual travel is not just a catch phrase that you hear | | | | The best way to fly into Bodhgaya is to take a flight |
| from the lips of a travel agent because in fact people | | | | from Kolkata to Gaya airport. However, if you want to |
| have from the very earliest times been making | | | | fly in from the rest of India you will need to deplane at |
| pilgrimages. Religious travel is therefore not something | | | | Patna airport that is almost a hundred kilometers away |
| that has just become popular. In fact, in the sixteenth | | | | from there. A train journey is the more relaxed and |
| century Jesuits from Spain made their way to far | | | | cheaper mode of transport and all it requires is to get |
| away Paraguay and to Brazil as well as to Argentina | | | | off at Gaya from where Bodhgaya is not far away. |
| for the purpose of establishing missions to convert the | | | | If you are traveling from other parts of India then there |
| native peoples of those regions. | | | | is the main airport at Patna the state capital of Bihar |
| Nowadays, there are many places that you can visit if | | | | and this airport is about eighty-seven miles distant from |
| you want some spiritual satisfaction and some of | | | | Bodhgaya. Of course, if you don't mind a train journey |
| these places are vastly different to the Vatican and to | | | | then it is certainly more convenient to use this mode of |
| Yucatan and even to Egypt. There are for example | | | | transportation that is cheap and which will help you |
| numerous monasteries that have been erected by | | | | reach Gaya very easily. |
| Buddhists which though mainly located in Asia are also | | | | There are few better places to find spiritual peace |
| found in the US and also in Europe. | | | | than Bodhgaya that has kept itself pure and untouched |
| To get the true Buddhist spiritual experience you will | | | | by the ravages of modern civilization. So, a visit to |
| want to choose Bodhgaya as your destination. This is | | | | Bodhgaya will not only be very pleasant and |
| a place that is part of the Indian state of Bihar and it is | | | | productive; it will also be a very different and unique |
| here that Lord Buddha sat under a Bodhi tree and | | | | experience as well. |
| finally became enlightened about the meaning of life. | | | | |