Katra Town, lying in the foot of Trikuta Mountains, 48 kms. from Jammu, serves as the base camp for visiting the famous shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, which is approachable on foot along a 13 kms long well laid footpath. Every year, more than 4.5 million pilgrims pass through Katra on their way to the holy shrine. The cave shrine of Maa Vasihnodeviji or Trikuta Bhagwati has been a beacon of faith and fulfillment to millions of devotees from all over the world. The pilgrimage to the Shrine holds great significance for the pilgrims. We guarantee you the best value for your money by providing quality services.
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Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine is one of the oldest and holiest pilgrimages situated at an altitude of 5300 ft in the folds of three peaked mountains of Trikuta hills. The holy cave is 12 kms away from Katra. Katra is 55 kms away from Jammu Airport and 50 kms from Jammu Railway station. Inside the 100 ft holy cave pilgrims are blessed with darshans of the Deity in the shape of three natural rock formations known as 'Pindies'.
These Pindies are the collective spiritual strengths of Maha Kali, Maha Lakshmi and Maha Saraswati. It is truly a spiritually uplifting experience to witness the faith of the devotees who are motivated to the heart by three words being chanted since the ages. " Jai Mata Di ".
The temple of Baba Dhansar is dedicated to Lord Shiva and is located at a distance of about 15 km from Katra on way to Salal Dam.
Here, a huge spring emerges from the rocks in a thick grove of trees and forms a number of small rapids before flowing into the holy rivulet that merges with the Chenab River.
The Holy Cave abode of Lord Shiva is situated at a distance of 70km from Katra. The cave is a real wonder to be seen and measures nearly half a kilometre in length with a 4 feet high naturally formed Shiv-lingam at the heart of the Sanctum Sanctorum. The cave is in the shape of Lord Shiva's Damroo i.e. wide at the two ends while very congested at the centre.
The width of the cave is so less at certain place that a person can barely crawl through whereas at places it over a hundred feet wide and quite high too. There are lots of features which can be observed in the cave, however the best of them is the natural milky water dripping from the top to the Shiv-Ling symbolizing the eternity of the holy river Ganga.
Nau Deviyan-Eminent-Travels-jammu J&kDurga is worshipped in different forms. She is a form of "Shakti".
The evolution of Shri Maha Saraswati, Shri Maha Laxmi and Shri Mahakali (the 3 main forms of "Shakti") took place from Shri Brahma, Shri Vishnu and Shri Mahesh respectively. Each of these 3 deities gave rise to 3 more forms and hence in all, these 9 forms together are known as Nav-Durga.
Dera Baba Banda-Eminent-Travels-jammu J&kAt about 30 kms from Katra lies this major Hindu-Sikh pilgrimage centre.
Baba Banda Bairaagi was Guru Gobind Singh's favourite 'Saint-soldier', who had the gurudwara constructed on the banks of river Chenab, where he spent his last days.
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