This is the chanting which has vibrated in my ears yesterday evening @ 6 pm, I had a wonderful time in Arunachalam/Thiruannamalai ....
It is a wonderful place filled with Lord shiva in the form of lingam everywhere. Our day started with giri valam i.e., pradakshina of mountain which was of 14 km in length and we completed it successfully with his blessings. It was not at all boring and tiresome to walk as the whole way was completely jam packed with the almighty's devotees and chanting. The way had eight lingams which were worshipped by eight different demigods hence they are named after their names, I actually thought that they are constructed to give rest to devotees so that can be refreshed to complete such a long journey. The speciality of the mountain is it looks in different shapes of siva and nandi at different places during the pradakshina.
After completion we set ourselves in comfortable position to have nice view of jyothi exactly in front of temple. Now during jyothi darshanam, this is almost for the first time in my life I m watching any thing like this. When we saw the jyothi for the first time the whole place was chanting the almightys name (as I mentioned in the title of the post) with such a enthusiasm that it was a goose bumps giving experience and along with that crackers were also being exploded and the raja gopuram was glowing, with flashing lights on to it. Having the sight of gopuram on left and jyothi darshan on right with eyes and sound of chanting and crackers reverberating in the ears made it the best ever moment of my life and meant to me that this is the wonderful tribute given to the almighty by the mankind as a small return gift to the priceless things gifted by him.
I forgot to tell, before the jyothi darshan the clouds were passing by the tip of the mountain as if they were doing abishekam to the lingam ( as mountain is also considered as form of shiva/lingam here) or according to my imagination it can be putforth in another way as is the other demigods were coming to see this feast on clouds as their vehicles....
It is a wonderful place filled with Lord shiva in the form of lingam everywhere. Our day started with giri valam i.e., pradakshina of mountain which was of 14 km in length and we completed it successfully with his blessings. It was not at all boring and tiresome to walk as the whole way was completely jam packed with the almighty's devotees and chanting. The way had eight lingams which were worshipped by eight different demigods hence they are named after their names, I actually thought that they are constructed to give rest to devotees so that can be refreshed to complete such a long journey. The speciality of the mountain is it looks in different shapes of siva and nandi at different places during the pradakshina.
After completion we set ourselves in comfortable position to have nice view of jyothi exactly in front of temple. Now during jyothi darshanam, this is almost for the first time in my life I m watching any thing like this. When we saw the jyothi for the first time the whole place was chanting the almightys name (as I mentioned in the title of the post) with such a enthusiasm that it was a goose bumps giving experience and along with that crackers were also being exploded and the raja gopuram was glowing, with flashing lights on to it. Having the sight of gopuram on left and jyothi darshan on right with eyes and sound of chanting and crackers reverberating in the ears made it the best ever moment of my life and meant to me that this is the wonderful tribute given to the almighty by the mankind as a small return gift to the priceless things gifted by him.
I forgot to tell, before the jyothi darshan the clouds were passing by the tip of the mountain as if they were doing abishekam to the lingam ( as mountain is also considered as form of shiva/lingam here) or according to my imagination it can be putforth in another way as is the other demigods were coming to see this feast on clouds as their vehicles....
HI surya, as you said it was great experience to watch akasha jyothi with the chants of almost 2 million people at a time. And one thing you forgot to mention that grivalam is not only done by us but also it is done by all demigods. still we missed dharshanam of annamaliyar due to the heavy crowd of devotees. so i hope we visit it again to experience the things which we have missed. :)
ReplyDeleteHey sandeep, I have skipped mentioning many things not only that as I thought it will bore the readers but seeing your comment I understood that I can post more also.. If possible I will write the continuation to this blog...
Delete@surya and @sandeep: Seriosuly people if you ask me I would say you are the luckiest people in this world. Its very difficult to see it jyothi darshnam in real. I have been here in this Tamil nadu for 23 years but till I didnt get an opportunity to see this real.You are blessed :)
ReplyDeleteNote: Call me also for your next trip. I will be really happy to take part in these kind of activities:)
Thanx Anitha for your comment and as you said I think we are the luckiest people because there were many obstacles before going also but some how we were fortunate to go..... We will go for a trip for sure next time...
Deleteits wonderful experience visiting that temple on such auspicious day but i am totally missing them any ways when i come back india this tym i am going to come and visit that temple
ReplyDeletearunachala shiva arunachala shiva arunachala shiva arunachala
pakka ra maniddaram kalisi veldam....
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