Thursday, 20 December 2018

Vaikunta Ekadasi Darshanam - 2018

The Mylapore Trio, Sugathan and members made a short trip to few temples in and around Trichy on account of Vaikunta Ekadasi. On Sunday boarded Rockfort and reached Trichy next day morning. On Monday the group went to Nerur, on the banks of river Cauvery, sprinkled the holy water and then worshipped the Adishtanam of Sadasiva Brahmendrar. He was a great Avadhoota Swamy who lived in the 18th century and performed many miracles for the good of the society. He being a Siddha, attained Samadhi simultaneously in five places all over India. It was a divine experience for all of us to sit in meditation near the Samadhi in an atmosphere of serenity & tranquility. The team then went to Karur and worshipped Lord Kalyana Pasupatheeswarar and Goddesses Alankara Valli and Soundharyanayaki it was beautiful temple with many sculptures and carvings. After lunch we proceeded to Pudukkottai and the very ancient temple of Araikasu Amman alias Brahadambal and Lord Gokarneswrar. It is the family deity of the Rajas of Pudukkottai Samasthanam. It is a cave temple carved out huge rocks with amazing architecture and sculptures. From there we went to the famous Bhuvaneswari Temple in Pudukkottai. It was very auspicious evening to worship the Goddess, right at the time of Sandhya Kala Deeparathanai and went back to Srirangam for the night stay.

The next day on Vaikunta Ekadasi, we had a holy bath at Kollidam River to our full contentment with nostalgic memories. At right time we had the Divine Darshan of Lord Ranganatha alias Nam Perumal in the Thirumamani Mandapam of the 1000 kaal Mandapam in the Bhooloka Vaikuntam. Our thoughts and memories were filled with emotions and sentiments to have His darshan at the same place where we had the blessings to put up Great Golus for last 4 years with pomp and splendor with utmost sanctity and divinity. Also worshipped Goddess Ranganayaki Thayar and other deities with lots of reminiscences. In the evening went for shopping to buy farm fresh vegetables in the evening market and boarded train to Madras in the night.












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