This Sadhu and his dogs travel everywhere together!

This sadhu and his dogs travel everywhere together, proof that even a hermit needs company.

Sadhu Dula Nath, Lord Shiva devotee, travels to all religious places with his dogs on a bike! In an interview he gave to the news agency ANI, near Amarnath temple, he said that he has been travelling with these ‘devotee dogs‘ for the past ten years.

Ten years, three dogs, one motorcycle

“I’ve been taking them to religious places, just visited Amarnath Temple. I don’t leave them alone anywhere.”

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Amarnath Temple, the holy cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir is perched at an altitude of 12,756 feet. Every year in Saavan, the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, pilgrims pay their respects to Lord Shiva by embarking upon a journey.

Why a holy man on a bike with three dogs is older than it looks

A wandering ascetic travelling with dogs is not a quirk. It is one of the oldest pairings in Indian religious life. The dog is the companion of Bhairav, the fierce form of Shiva who guards thresholds and cremation grounds, and it is his vahana, the animal that moves at his side. The most feared guardian in the pantheon is escorted by the same animal most people shoo off the street.

You can still watch it happen. At the 2025 Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj, the Juna Akhara, the largest order of Naga sadhus, kept a resident dog named Soma, fed, tilak-marked and braided, treated as family by the ascetics she lived among. At the Triveni Sangam, a man carried his beagle, Zorawar, into the river for the holy dip, and the clip crossed seven million views. The instinct Sadhu Dula Nath described on his motorcycle, I don’t leave them alone anywhere, turns up again at the largest gathering of humans on earth.

The dog who refused to leave

The thread runs straight to the Mahabharata. When Yudhishthira walks toward heaven, one dog follows him the entire way. At the gate he is told he may enter, but the dog may not. He refuses to abandon a creature that stayed loyal to him, and the dog reveals itself as Dharma. The refusal is the test he passes. Dattatreya, another wandering teacher, is almost always shown with four dogs at his feet, read as the four Vedas walking beside him.

Hold those stories next to a Shaiva hermit riding to Amarnath with three rescued dogs, and the picture holds across three thousand years: here, the holy man and the dog travel together. For the longer story, see why dogs sit at the heart of so many Hindu stories.