Chilkur Balaji (sri venkatewara) viza balaji at Hyderabad

[Guest guest]

Dear sir,

There is a Srinivasa temple in Chilkur near Hyderabad. It is also

Known as viza temple. One of my friend Recommended this Temple.

Things happens fast. Also people come Flocking to get the

blessings of balaji and boon too!

view this website http://www.chilkurbalaji.org/

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Chilkuru Sri Venkateswara Swamy

History of Chilkur

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Dakshinas and Pradakshinas

At His Lotus Feet

Differences between Tirupati Balaji & Chilkur Balaji

Hitherto, a sleepy village, Chilkur has come up as a very important

pilgrim centre in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (India). The Lord here

is Sri Venkateswara Swamy in a standing posture, beside whom is

Goddess Sridevi and Goddess Bhudevi. It is said that the Lord bears

an injury on his chest which is believed to have been made during

digging out of the Idol !

How to reach Chilkur

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May the Lord bless you with a Happy Darshan!

And a VISA too!

It is believed that an old man (may be in his 70s-80s), who used to

visit Tirumala every year to have darshan of Sri Venkateswara Swamy

at Tirumala, once desired to go to Tirumala, Tirupati but could not,

because of his old age/some illness. He was very sad for his

inability to go to Tirumala because it was also harsher and tiresome

those days to travel to Tirumala. The Lord wanted to give him his

Darshan and came down to Chilkur. The Lord appeared in the devotee's

dream and told him that he is lying underground in a forest nearby

and asked him to excavate his idol so that he may have a bountiful

Darshan. The Lord was excavated, along with his consorts, Sridevi

and Bhudevi and were installed at the place now called Chilkur.

 

It is also prevalent among devotees who believe that during the

digging out of the Lord, the digging tools hit the Lord's idol on

his chin and on the chest. Suddenly, blood started oozing out of the

injuries. The devotees, in a state of shock, heard some voice in the

air which asked them to flow cow milk on the injuries. Immediately,

the idol of Swamy along with Sridevi and Bhudevi appeared which were

later installed in the now-temple premises, after performance of due

rites and rituals.

One important feature of this Temple is that there is no Hundi.

(Maybe, they come up later on).

The Lord asks His devotees to give him Dakshinas (fees) in shape of

Pradakshinas (taking rounds of the temple) only and nothing else!

It is widely prevalent among devotees that 'Chilkuru Balaji'

is 'Visa Venkanna' for He is the giver of visa, a passport to go

abroad. That is the reason why you will find many youngsters and

youth making rounds and rounds the temple all along, all through the

week.

The procedure is like this:

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Whoever wants to go abroad for higher studies, employment, etc. has

to first go to Chilkur and pay obeissance to the Lord and take a vow

to pay His dakshina. Then take eleven (11) pradakshinas round the

temple and put forth the desire to go abroad. The Lord is prayed

during pradakshinas to grant the devotee with a Visa. The devotees,

during eleven pradakshinas, vow to take 108 pradakshinas once the

Visa is granted. When the Visa paving way to fly abroad is

received, the devotee pays his obeissance with the vowed 108

pradakshinas.

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The Lord at Tirumala has His consorts, Sridevi and Bhudevi on His

bosom (chest) whereas at Chilkur, they stand alongside the Lord.

At Tirumala, you may pay your Dakshinas to the Lord in Hundi or

Undiyal whereas Chilkur Balaji is happy with the Devotees' 108

Pradakshinas.

 

Chilkuru is around 30 k.m. away from Hyderabad and it takes about

one hour to reach the temple. When one comes to

Hyderabad/Secunderabad, quite a large number of buses, taxies, auto-

three-wheelers, etc. are available from any place. Chilkuru (or

Chilkur) is the name of the tiny village where the temple is

located. The nearest places from where one can find buses, taxies

etc. in the city leading to Chilkur is MEHDIPATNAM or LANGAR HOUSE.

Shared three-wheeler/auto charges are somewhere around Rs. 10-12 per

person, one way. Bus charges are also in the range of Rs. 9 or so,

one way. Travelling from Mehdipatnam takes about 50-60 minutes.

Since the village is very nearby to Hyderabad city, coming back to

the city by night is recommended for outstation pilgrims.

Places worth visit nearby: Golconda Fort. While going to Chilkuru,

one can have a glimpse of the Golconda Fort from a distance.

regards

muktha ravi