Visit to some little known temples around Chenglepat

[Guest guest]

Dear

All,

 

A

new travelogue has been posted in Raju's Temple Visits

http://shanthiraju.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/little-known-around-chenglepat/

 

1)

Shiva temple at Edamacheri near Salavakkam

 

Around

a 24 year old girl, single handedly, is taking up the renovation of a few

centuries old Shiva temple putting all her (small) wealth. While several people

are struggling to bring up Shiva temples, this girl is bringing up this temple

at an amazing pace. She is talking, fighting, loving, crying with Shiva as her

father.

 

2)

Gidankarai Shiva temple

 

As

if this 24 year old girl is no big surprise, just a few kms away, at a place called

Gidangari, a 12 year old girl is performing the daily poojas / pradhosha

abhisheham to a Shiva lingam peeping through from the bottom of two massive

tamarind trees.

 

3)

Sundara Mahalakshmi Temple at Arasar koil

 

·

Mother Sundara Maha Lakshmi is the Mother of

all wealth and treasures. This form of the Mother is Aadhi Moola Lakshmi - the

root form of all 64 Lakshmi avatars (each one governing one of the 64 forms of

wealth, well being and prosperity)

·

This is a Kubera Sampath Shakti Temple and

Mother Sundara MahaLakshmi brims with billions of Kubera Shaktis, Aishwarya

Shaktis, Sukra shaktis, treasure shaktis and prosperity shaktis.

·

She controls Shukra's power to bestow

prosperity and Shukra worships at this shrine every Friday without fail. What

form he might assume is beyond human comprehension, but he is one of the

visitors to this shrine every Friday.

·

Sundara Mahalakshmi mesmerizes the devotees

with her 'chubby cheeks' like a baby. Especially, sitting in the Padmasana

Lotus posture with both hands in abhaya hastham, the real meaning of `Sundaram

– the beauty' will be understood.

Reagrds,

Raju