Editing Dharmic Circuits: Sacred Pathways – Part 1 (section)

==== Kshetra, Desha and Yatra ====
The Hindu sense of space is sacred. It has a center and a periphery.  The centre has multiple locations. They are the Teertha Kshetras of India. The periphery coincides with the boundaries of the cultural space of Bharatvarsha and the phenomenon which connects these multiple centers to Bharata’s peripheries is the process of Teertha Yatra.

Teertha Yatra is literally the sutra which binds Bharatvarsha together. It is the underlying thread of unity in the Hindu society. Dharma is what sustains Bharatvarsha and teertha yatras are the threads of unity which bind all these different kshetras together. There are millions of these kshetras, even after so much destruction and the varieties among them is bewildering.

Yet there is an undercurrent of unity in them. The prana of Sanatana dharma flows through these sacred kshetrams keeping them alive and the teertha yatras perform the role of the nadis (veings) which take the prana to every nook and corner of this sacred land.