🕉 Centuries old Beautiful Thirumeeyachur Lalithambikai Temple & Lord Mahadev Meghanathaswami ,TN-The Kshetra where Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam -Sanskrit hymn describing the beauty of Goddess in 1000 names by Lord Hayagriva to Sage Agastyar was given as Upadesam 🚩1/5 @twttdc
🕉 2.Imposing 5Ft Goddess Lalithambikai is beautifully seated on SriChakra Simhasana in AbhayaHastha mudra.On VIJAYADASHAMI ,plantain leaves are spread in Sanctum over 15ft*5ft area & divided into 3 sections.1st section closest to Goddess ,100 kg of sweet Pongal/Rice is spread🚩
🕉 3. In the 2nd section, 100kg of tamarind rice & in the 3rd section- 100 kg of curd rice is spread – all one behind the other. In the middle of the sweet pongal, a huge hollow or trough is created and a large amount of liquid ghee is poured. It is called as “ghee well”. 🚩
🕉 4. After the special alankara of Sri Lalithambika & the Maha Aarthi is performed. The reflection of Beautiful Goddess Sri Lalithambika can be seen in the “ghee well!” This unique, most beautiful & awesome darshan is considered to be extremely auspicious🚩
🕉5. Devotees throng the shrine in large numbers on Vijayadasami day to have darshan of All Powerful Sri Lalithambika in “ghee well!” Sun Rays fall on Lord Shiva from Chithirai 21-27(April /May). Special Surya Pooja is performed on these days🚩@SriramKannan77@DharmoRakshathi
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🕉 #Pongal#MakaraSankranthi 4day festival in TN- God Surya enters 'MakaraRashi' frm 'DhanuRashi' -1st day of Holy Uttarayana
Day 1: Bhogi
Day 2: Thai Pongal
Day 3: Maattu Pongal
Day 4: Kaanum Pongal #Pongal is celebrated from last day of Margazhi -3rdday of Tamilmonth Thai🚩
🕉 2. Bhogi-celebrated on the last day of Margazhi by discarding old clothes/materials, setting them on fire, marking end of the old & emergence of the new. In villages there will be a simple ceremony of 'neem' leaves kept along walls & roof of houses to eliminate evil forces 🚩
🕉 3. Thai Pongal - 1st day of Tamil month Thai starts with the solar cycle when sun starts moving towards the summer solstice -Uttarayana. It is celebrated by boiling rice with fresh milk & jaggery in new pots, topped with brown sugar, cashew nuts & raisins early morning 🚩
🕉 Today is Arudra Darshanam-Thiruvathira-Bhagwan Shiva’s Nakshatra - a day when Mahadev as Nataraja, Lord of dance & performed Cosmic dance of creation & Destruction.On this day,Lord Shiva married Ma Parvati after her long penance & hence they are in Ardhanarishvara Form🚩 1/4
🕉 2.Once, Rishi Patanjali was stopped by Nandi Bhagavan from witnessing Ananda Tandavam in Kailash & he composed Nataraja stotram!
Pleased, Bhagwan Shiva appears in Chidambaram Temple & dances for Rishi Patanjali & Vyagrapadha on this day 🚩
🕉3.Hence it is celebrated with pomp & devotion mainly in Chidambaram Sri Thillai Nataraja Temple,TN but in All Shiva temples. Today is very auspicious for women & young girls to take vrath. Ma Parvathi has been taking this vrath since time immemorial & will be with us today...🚩
🕉 #Thread Today #VaikuntaEkadashi is Margashirsha Shukla Paksha Ekadashi in Lunar calendar #MokshadaEkadashi Vaikunta Dwar-Gate to Lord's Inner Sanctum’ is opened today. Vishnu Purana says fasting on #VaikunthaEkadashi is equal to fasting on rest of 23 Ekadashis of Hindu year🚩
🕉 2. Padma Purana says Devas, unable to bear the tyranny of Demon Muran approached Bhagwan Shiva, who sent them to Bhagwan Vishnu. In the Battle between Lord Vishnu & the demon,Bhagwan realized that a new weapon was needed to slay Muran🚩
🕉3.When Muran tried to slay Bhagwan Vishnu, who was resting to make the new Weapon, the female power that emerged from Bhagwan burned Muran to ashes with her glance. Bhagwan Vishnu pleased, named her Goddess #Ekadashi 🚩
🕉 #Thread Alarnatha Mandira, near Puri, Odisha .One of rarest Deities carved by Lord Brahma on Bhagwan Vishnu’s instruction is Sri Alarnathji. At this place, Lord Brahma meditated on Lord Vishnu & pleased with his penance, Lord Vishnu appeared here & named it as Brahmagiri🚩
🕉 2. Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu during his stay in Puri used to see Shri Jagannatha daily. During Anavasara which is Ashada Krishna Paksha after Snana Yatra, when Lord & his siblings are taken to secret chamber for 15 days, he was unable to see his Bhagwan 🚩
🕉 3. Bhagwan JagannathJi told him to go to Brahmagiri & have his darshan at Sri AlarnathJi temple. Even today the Shila over which Mahaprabhu used to do Sankeertan is present here. During Anavasara time Kheeri bhoga offered to Alvarnaath Swami is very famous & much in demand🚩
🕉 #Thread Today is Divine #Marghazhi 1- Most famous thing about Margazhi is Thiruppavai - Goddess Andal’s 30 verses for 30 days of this holy month, in worship& praise of Bhagwan Vishnu.Sri Andal was found as baby by her foster father Periazhwar in his garden Srivilliputhur,TN 🚩
🕉 2. Goddess Andal grew up with intense devotion to the Lord & was so fond of Lord Krishna that she pictured herself as one of the Gopikas & aspired to wed the Lord. Her father used to make a garland for the Lord everyday & take it to the temple and adorn the God🚩
🕉 3. Andal used to take that garland &wear it herself and picture the scene of the Lord putting the garland on her (in marriage) & then admire the beauty & glow as she wore Lord’s garland. 1 day, like every other day she had worn the garland before her father took it to temple🚩
🕉 Divine #Narayaneeyam Day 🙏Guruvayur Temple #Thread
It was on the 28th of Malayalam month Vrishchikam, Bhagawan’s ardent devotee Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri - had completed Sreemad Narayaneeyam with 1036 shlokas & offered to Bhagawan Guruvayurappan 🚩1/6 @SriRamya21
🕉 2. Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri was the student of Achyuta Pisharadi. While his Guru was afflicted with rheumatism, Bhattathiri transferred the ailment to his own body through his yogic powers & cured his Guru. This was his Guru Dakshina🚩
🕉 3. Afterwards Melpathur suffered a lot due to this disease & Ezhuthachan, author of Killipattu Ramayanam, advised Merlppathur to go to Guruvayur Temple & then – 'Meen Thottu Kootuga' – the translation means ‘start with tasting fish’ in Malayalam 🚩