This cave is on your way to the King’s balance from the Kodandarama Temple. Located almost on the river shore, this is a naturally formed cave by huge boulders one leaning over the other.
where the mythical monkey warrior, Sugreeva lived. He used the cave to hide the jewels dropped by Maa Sita, when the demon king Ravana abducted her. Later Sugreeva met Prabhu Rama & Laxmana nearby the riverside searching for Sita. The colored pattern at the rock in locale
parlance called Sita Konda. It depicts the pattern on the costume of Maa Sita.
A climb down the flat rock would bring one at the cave entrance. Though it’s possible to enter the cave, there’s nothing much to see inside. In fact this is a tiny alcove than a cave. The cave stands
at the edge of a flat rocky expanse. A number of carved footprints can be seen on the floor of this flat surface. This depicts the footprints of Prabhu Rama & Laxmana. It’s a sacred symbol for us Hindus.
The day Amla (indian gooseberry) is used in your vegetables, from that day half of the medical mafia who keeps robbing you day and night, will run away.
*In ancient India, Amla was used instead of tomato to bring sourness to the vegetable. That's why the bones
of Sanatan Hindus were hard like Maharishi Dadhichi, so strong that Maharana Pratap's Mahavajni could lift the spear.*
Today, even after taking all kinds of calcium vitamins, the bones start humming in youth. In the season when local tomatoes are available, it is fine, but
instead of eating egg-shaped English tomatoes, use of Indian gooseberry will make your vegetable tastier and will also get you out of the web of the medical mafia.
Amla is the only fruit which has all kinds of juices. Like Amla, it is sour as well as sweet as well as
Koragajja
Is a very prominent deity for the people of Tulu Nadu in Karnataka. It is irreverent to say that the deity is a spirit of the Tulu Nadu region as he is the presiding deity for almost every Tulu household for whom life just does not go on without his blessings
Koragajja is believed to have taken an incarnation in the human form on earth at some point in time in Tulunadu history. Koraga, is a name given to a particular community, and ajja means grandfather, used mostly as a mark of love and respect to address the swami. He was born
Koraga Thaniya who lost his mother Maire when he was a 30-day-old infant. His father passed away soon after that.
Since he had virtually no one to fend for him, he left his home town and reached a place near Kallapu and spent some time there, eating sand as food, as he was
Going into temple is best way to cleanse your body and soul. In almost all the holy places of worship, it is believed that the cosmic energy from the cosmos is swirling around, by virtue of the place being a meeting point of energies, or by virtue of continued practice
of prayer/meditation/ rituals/etc at that point in the temple or place of worship. This is the reason why we feel a sort of peace and quiet when we enter some temple, since that place is saturated with the vibrations of so many prayers/mantras/divine thoughts, which draw the
cosmic energy into that place.
The popular reason for removing shoes is that the soles absorb impurities of the road, another reason is that shoes are made of leather which is considered impure in Hinduism as it is derived from dead animals. That is the reason why Hindus not
Kannappa was a staunch devotee of Shiva and is closely associated with Srikalahasteeswara Temple.He was a hunter and is believed to have plucked his eyes to offer to Srikalahasteeswara linga, the presiding deity of Srikalahasti Temple.
He is also considered one of the 63 Nayanars or holy Saivite saints, the staunch devotees of Shiva.
When Arjuna was meditating on Shiva for Pashupatastra, to test him, Shiva entered that forest as an animal hunter and due to two arrows from Shiva and Arjuna killing a demon named
Mooka, a war started between Shiva and Arjuna, a battle took place between both and finally impressed by Arjuna's efforts, Shiva gave him the Pashupatastra. Shiva also blessed him to be born as his greatest devotee in his next birth. So, he is born again as a devotee in the Kali
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How Dwarka is related to Sri Krishna Udupi temple.
Sri Krishna had arrived in Udupi from Dwarka by way of an ancient statue. Thus started the Udupi Krishna temple story.
Krishna, was born in Mathura, spend his childhood in Vrindavan and then ruled from Dwarka.
All in the northern part of India. Then how, did Sri Krishna land in Udupi which is in South India?
Owing to her imprisonment, Krishna’s birth mother – Devaki could not experience the childhood of Krishna. In Dwarka, she expressed her desire to see the
Prabhu as a kid. Krishna took the form of a child again for some time. He played with her and performed his famous childhood antics of stealing butter. The entire episode was witnessed by his wife- Rukmini who fell in love with his child form (called Balakrishna).