India, June 20 -- Kailash Manasarovar - The Journey of a Lifetime

By Sadhguru - Founder, Isha Foundation

The idea of going on a trek or a mountaineering feat is always towards a sense of achievement, to make yourself bigger than who you are. But the idea of a pilgrimage is to subdue yourself. It is to become nothing in the process of just walking, climbing, and subjecting yourself to various arduous processes of nature.

Places of pilgrimage in the ancient past were always located in such places where a person had to go through a certain amount of physical and mental hardship to get there, so that in the process, he becomes less than who he thinks he is. Today, things have been made much more comfortable. People are flying up, walking a...