ZeNLP- Travel Guide South India: ZENLP- Travel Guide, #3

By Murli Menon

The author travelled all over South India researching destinations for ZeNLP meditation and elucidates how to reach there, where to stay and eat in this guide which is vegan friendly. 

Destinations include Hampi, Borra caves, Coonoor and Karripode among twenty others in the four southern states.  These tranquil destinations for meditation are hidden gems of nature, which are like underground treasures waiting for discovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Murli Menon
• Release date: Nov 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393524014

Book preview

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ZeNLP

Tranquil Travel Destinations in South India

Destinations for ZeNLP meditation in India

Murli Menon

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What the press says about ZeNLP

ZeNLP shows how success in life can be achieved through meditation

-World News, London

More than 9000 managers have benefited from ZeNLP workshops till date

-Indo-Asian News Service (IANS)

ZeNLP exercises are simple

-The Capital Post, USA

ZeNLP helps to manage spiritual stress by chanting

-The Pioneer

ZeNLP helps to manage physical stress by clapping

-Gulf News, Dubai

ZeNLP helps to manage mental stress by meditation

-The South Asian Times, USA

ZeNLP helps one to live in harmony with nature

-Zee News

ZeNLP helps one to live in the present moment

-Yahoo News

ZeNLP helps one to achieve one’s goals

-DNA

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For

Deepika my wife…

This book is a result of your sacrificing nature. The tremendous support you

have provided me over the years has enabled me to discover the author in

myself. This book is dedicated to your selfless nature. Your hidden hand is

visible in every word of this book and I would like to accept that this book is

as much mine as yours. Writing this book without your support would have

been tough. You have smoothened my path by managing everything single-

handedly during my long absence from home. Not to speak of your

soothing presence which motivates me to work longer and harder.

Thanks for those endless cups of fresh ginger and tulsi herbal infusion

which have kept me active and for your innovative zero stress vegan

cooking which increased my effectiveness and efficiency. Thanks for not

watching television. Thanks for not going to watch movies. Just because

you couldn’t do these without me and I couldn’t accompany you, as I was

busy travelling. Thanks for not buying milk and willingly following my vegan

diet. Words are insufficient to communicate my gratitude for packing my

bags and thoughtfully including everything I needed in the remotest

corners of this planet. Thanks for paying the bills during my absence from

home. Thanks a ton, chotu, for being my pillar of strength during our initial

turbulent days at Bengaluru.

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Contents

Preface

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Acknowledgements

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1. Introduction to ZeNLP

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2. An introduction to eco-friendly travel

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3. Benefits of ZeNLP meditation

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4. Rainforest trek at Athirapally

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5. Boat cruise on the backwaters at Kanjiramattom

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6. The surf, the sea, the sun and the sand at Kovalam beach

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7. Trek to Seetharkund at Palakkad

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8. Trek through Eravikulam National Park

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9. Boat cruise inside Periyar Tiger Reserve

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10. Thrissur Pooram festival in Kerala

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11. Visit to the world’s largest teak tree

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12. Visit to Karripode Village

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13. Visit to Kavasseri Pooram

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14. Mountain train at Coonoor

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15. Visit to Kurumba Village

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16. Jungle trek at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

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17. Visit to Borra Caves in Araku Valley

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18. Exploring the majestic temples at Hampi

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19. Boat cruise on the Tungabhadra river

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20. Jungle safari at B. R. Tiger Reserve

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21. About the author

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Preface

This book is a result of fifteen years of painstaking work and repeated

journeys to some of the most interior and inaccessible areas in India. We

undertook these pilgrimages, as we wanted to discover hidden pockets of

tranquility, where one could relax to the tune of nature. We were guided

to all destinations featured in this book by hidden meaningful coincidences,

which enabled us to meet the right person at the right time. I would like to

recount my personal experience which has transformed my life.

On January 1st'1995, I had one of the most traumatic experiences of my 28

years of existence on planet earth. I was returning home after a New Year's

party at Jayanagar in Bengaluru, when I had a head-on collision with a

truck. I was wearing a helmet, yet had a serious head injury, which resulted

in organic damage to the right fronto-parietal lobe of my brain. This

haemoharrage prevented blood flow to my right brain resulting in complete

paralysis of the left side of my body. Doctors at Manipal Hospital were

brave enough to declare me a vegetable for life, as blood flow to my right

brain had been obstructed for eight hours and I went into coma. The

subsequent surgical interventions meant total dependency on powerful

anti-epileptic drugs for the rest of my life!

After about a week of drifting in and out of coma, I regained consciousness.

However, the left side of my body continued to be dead weights. Slowly but

surely, I recovered from paralysis by combining Zen meditation with NLP

(Neuro Linguistic Programming). I was regularly practicing meditation and

creative visualisation before my accident. I knew that mind power could

cure any disease including amnesia, epilepsy and paralysis. By practicing

ZeNLP, I regained back my health in a short span of three months. I decided

that as I had been given a new life, I would dedicate it to the cause of

environment protection. I made a list of goals and put them in writing.

On the first anniversary of my accident, I decided to spend the New Year's

Eve at a forest resort, which is an eight-hour drive from Bengaluru. The

Bilagiri Rangan Hills or B.R. Hills is a reserved forest, which is approximately

300 km. south of Bengaluru. On 30th December'1995, I took the KSRTC

(Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation) bus to B.R. Hills and arrived

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there at around 8 p.m. Early morning, I decided to take a trek around my

guest-house, when I found a group of tourists proceeding into the forests

for sightseeing. One of the passengers of the jeep happened to be my

student and he asked me to join them in their safari.

Unknown forces were propelling me into an adventure, which would last a

lifetime. I hopped on to their vehicle and found myself in lush deciduous

forests. The tourists were trying their best to spot elephant tracks but could

only spot a few stray deer and solitary wild boar. After about an hour of

wandering aimlessly, we came across a clear mountain stream and a few

secluded caves. Our vehicle stopped here abruptly and though the driver

tried his best, it wouldn't start. The engine spluttered and stopped and

refused to start.

I stepped down from the vehicle and made my way down the spiral steps

leading to the stream. I quenched my thirst and was waiting for the others

to join me when I was I saw a series of tridents arranged in concentric rows

on the banks of this mountain stream. Curious to discover more, I bare-

footedly stepped through the icy cold water and crossed to the secluded

caves when I was blinded by a brilliant flash of light. Followed by this

explosion, I found myself as light as a helium balloon and felt ecstatic. I was

overcome by waves of euphoria and found a tingling sensation emanating

from the bottom of my spine and moving upwards towards my brain. It was

as if each and every cell of my body was vibrating with a renewed energy. I

could feel waves of energy arising from my spine and flowing into my brain.

The experience was so pleasurable and intense that I wanted it to continue

forever. I could feel each and every cell of my body tingling with a

consciousness I had never felt before. Waves upon waves of pleasurable

sensations were breaking upon my body as if each and every cell was

experiencing cosmic bliss.

I stood transfixed in front of the tridents and Shiva lingams under the

centuries old Champaka tree at the Dodda Sampige forests inside B.R. Hills.

Minutes passed into hours as I experienced cosmic consciousness or

kundalini shakti as it is termed in Vedic scriptures. I could feel circuits in my

brain, getting activated. Circuits, I never knew existed in the first place.

After about an hour of experiencing this cosmic energy, I made my way up

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to the vehicle, which started as mysteriously as it had stopped, as soon as I

entered.

It would be an understatement to say that kundalini awakening has

changed my life. The literal translation of the word kundalini is as follows.

Kundalini is a combination of kunda which means coiled