The destination of this journey is Badrīnāth, a pilgrimage of India, which is based on the myth of Mahābhārata is Nara and Nārāyaṇa, Arjun and Lord Krishna. The icons of these heros are placed in the temple of Badrīnāth, 11,000 ft high amides the mountains of Himalayas. As Vishṇu or Nārāyaṇa measured all the three lokas with his three steps to sprinkle Madhu-rasa for all the mankind--living or non-living beings (chara-Achara), so it is a saṅgam of Nara-Nārāyaṇa.
In the world, one deficiency of a person is complemented by another sufficient to make a person perfect. This law of compensation is the rule of the ruler of the universe. If thorns are eaten by a camel, the flower-pollen is drunk by a bee, thorn or flowers are grown from the same root! To author, this perfectness cannot be obtained by the modern technology. For, the creation of Almighty where such a wonderful balance, form symmetry and volume with absolute discipline is executed, is invincible by a man, that is perfection.
While we sojourn to Badrīnāth, like Allahabad's Saṅgam, we find four-five hilly Saṅgam on the way to Badrīnāth. As we start the journey from Hṛṣikesh, first Saṅgam we arrive, is known as Dev-Prayāga where Bhagirathi River meets Alakanandā River. Here, Gangā which accompanies us from Hardvār to Dev-prayāga, it gives way to Alakanandā till we reach Badrī-Vīshāl. This whole area is known as Garwal (Ṭiharī-Garwal, upper and lower Garwal). There is another Shrinagar which is the capital of (Ṭiharī-Garwal. In the onward journey three confluences of rivers known as Rudra-Prayāg, Karṇa-Prayāg and Nanda-Prayāg. In the Rudra-Prayāg, River Mandākinī and Kali-gangā meets then Kālī-Gangā disappear there, and Mandākinī continues up to Kedarnath. After that, Alakananda and Piṇḍar Gangā are visible by making another confluence where the stories from Mahābhārata are resonant among people. As we proceed further, not too far away, another Saṅgam is seen at the short distant and that is Nanda-Prayāg where Alakananda meets river Nandā. Like a dream, so many heights of mountain peaks fall into deep valley and another valley, climbing after another mountain, looking down the path we cover like a gait of Serpent. Throughout our journey the ups and downs occurs like Mandra-Saptak to tār-saptak, octaves of Indian classical Music which were collapsing our consciousness to Mūrcchanā. At last reaching Jyotirmath of śaṅkarācārya, we witness one truth in the incantation of Master-Mantra of Vedanta philosophy: "only one universal soul as individual soul resides in the living and non-living -being" "Ekaṃ Sat viprā bahudhā vadanti". Across the Alaknanada, known the valley near Paṇḍukesvar the flowers valley with great Gurudwara is situated with beautiful multifarious flowers and their fragrances which are making the wind and breeze heavy with music of Alakananda and its ecoes.
The last confluence is only three miles away from the temple of Badrīnāth known as Vishṇu-Prayāg where Vishṇu-gangā alias Dhaulī-gangā meets Alakananda river. On the north of Badrīnāth, Tibet is only five miles away from India near Sahasradhārā. It is interesting journey amides Himalayas, the new-fold mountains of Sedimentary and slate rocks where boulder breaks suddenly and makes apart you on the road. Himalayas are not of stones but of soft rock so journey is difficult and grace of Provident is needed, for behold the Supreme Beauty of Nature variegated with shades and colors which sublimate the soul for the quest of Sublime.