ॐ नमः शिवाय. It began with Babaji's aadesh: "Go to Kangundi-Kuppam. Bring tourists. Save the village's culture.“ January 2025. We went — and found 600 virgin boulders, a Valmiki tribal tradition, a Mahabharata Natakam, and a village that had stopped believing in itself.
The people took six months to trust us. Guruji's instruction came — no plan, no blueprint: "Use TadEkam funds. Begin." We asked what to do. He said: "Go. You will get to know." We went. The boulders and the Inselberg told us everything: bouldering and rock-climbing, tourism in service of culture.
Workshops, homestays, heritage paintings on 110 homes, a ₹65 Lakh bouldering gym — Guruji's personal gift to the youth of Kangundi. AP Tourism and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation followed.
Then Swami Dattapadanand Ji stood before the Inselberg and said what the village always knew but could not name: "This is a Living Shivling. Its energies mirror Mount Kailash.“
January 2026: 30 sewaks, 100 guests, India's first homestay-based bouldering festival — and on 30th January, the Hon'ble Chief Minister unfurled a 100-feet Tricolour at the Kangundi Bouldering Park.
