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Today is Aadi Perukku - Monsoon festival celebrated on 18th day of Tamil month of Aadi (July- August). The festival is dedicated to the all the perennial river basins of TN & major lakes water source areas & pays tribute to water's life-sustaining properties ๐ฉ 1/4
๐ Aadi Perukku celebrates the water rising levels due to the monsoon - season for sowing, rooting, planting of seeds & vegetation. For blessings of prosperity & happiness, nature worship is done in the form of Amman/ Devi Murthis to shower Natureโs bountiful grace ๐ฉ 2/4
๐ Adi Perukku festival is observed mainly by women in Tamil Nadu as a water-ritual, to honour nature.
in association with fertility & reproduction as both natural & human performed on the banks of Rivers, which are rice-cultivation tracts ๐ฉ3/4
๐ Young girls do Aadi Perukku puja offering Kaadholai (earrings made of palm leaf), Karugamani (black beads) & Kaapparisi (a sweet made of hand pounded rice and jaggery) & pray for a Happy Marital Life ๐ฉ 4/4 #IncredibleIndia
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๐ฉToday is Holy Paush #PutradaEkadashi that falls in Shukla Paksha during Pausha month. Devotees worship Sudarshan Chakradhari Bhagwan Vishnu. Most significant for childless couples observing #PutradaEkadashi fast acc to traditions will get blessed with a baby ๐ฉ1/4 @SriRamya21
๐ 2. Bhavishya Purana says #PutradaEkadashi story as told by Bhagwan Krishna to King Yudhishthira. Once,King of Bhadravati, Suketuman & Queen Shaibya were sad as they had no children. Frustrated, the king left his kingdom & went to the forest unknown to everyone๐ฉ
๐ 3. After wandering for days, Suketuman reached the ashram of some sages on the bank of Lake Manasarovar on #PutradaEkadashi The sages revealed that they were the 10 divine Vishvadevas. They advised the king to observe the #PutradaEkadashi fast to have a son๐ฉ
๐ 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 ๐ฉ1/5 @twttdc
๐ 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 spread๐ฉ
๐ 3. In the 2nd section, 100kg of tamarind rice & in the 3rd section- 100 kg of curd rice is spread โ 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 โghee wellโ. ๐ฉ
๐ #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 Thai๐ฉ
๐ 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 ๐ฉ
๐ 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 ๐ฉ
๐ Today is Arudra Darshanam-Thiruvathira-Bhagwan Shivaโs 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 Form๐ฉ 1/4
๐ 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 ๐ฉ
๐3.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...๐ฉ
๐ #Thread Today #VaikuntaEkadashi is Margashirsha Shukla Paksha Ekadashi in Lunar calendar #MokshadaEkadashi Vaikunta Dwar-Gate to Lord's Inner Sanctumโ is opened today. Vishnu Purana says fasting on #VaikunthaEkadashi is equal to fasting on rest of 23 Ekadashis of Hindu year๐ฉ
๐ 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 Muran๐ฉ
๐3.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 ๐ฉ
๐ #Thread Alarnatha Mandira, near Puri, Odisha .One of rarest Deities carved by Lord Brahma on Bhagwan Vishnuโs instruction is Sri Alarnathji. At this place, Lord Brahma meditated on Lord Vishnu & pleased with his penance, Lord Vishnu appeared here & named it as Brahmagiri๐ฉ
๐ 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 ๐ฉ
๐ 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 demand๐ฉ