Category Archives: Spiritual

This temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva named Ramanadeeswarar . This is one among the 276 Paadal petra Shivalayam and one among the 12 Jyothirlingams . Appar Sundarar and Thirugnana Sambandar has sung about this Lord . This temple is just 1km from Rameswaram railway station . We stayed in Hotel Tamilnadu run by ourContinue reading “A trip to Rameswaram and nearby places . Ramanadeeswarar Rameswaram”

This is a Amman temple in the ambattur area near Thirumullaivoyal . Pachai Amman temple is anchored at Thirumullaivoyal . This place is 23 km away from Chennai . We use to keep pongal (made out of rice n jaggery) in this temple aadi or thai (mid July to August) (mid January to mid February)Continue reading “Pachai Amman temple Thirumulaivoyal”

Its about 160km from Pune  ( but we take Pune to Shirdi to Shani Shignapur  route always ) and we have visited this place 2 times already, every time we visit Shirdi we visit this temple too . The way to Sani Shignapur is cultivated with sunflower and sugarcane fields on both sides of theContinue reading “Sani Shignapur”

Navapashanam (Navagraha temple) at Devipattinam is 32 kms from Rameswaram . Navapashanam – Devipattinam , Ramanathapuram district About the temple Navapashanam at Devipattinam is a small coastal village about 15 kms from Ramanathapuram. It is said that Sri Ram had prayed to the Nava grahas here by placing nine stones prior to going to warContinue reading “Navapashanam Devipattinam”

We went to Srilanka recently (December 2019) it was a funfilled trip with Sanjay tours about 32 peoples accompanying us . The places we covered are Ramayana places , Arupadai veedu murugar temples , Pancha Eswara sthalams , Paadal petra Shivalayam 2 , Sakthi peedam 3 , Ella forest , Rhamboda and Ella falls .Continue reading “Our trip to Srilanka”

We had an opportunity to visit this temple in January 2017 . It was a month before the Kudamuluku (kumbhabhishegam) a ritual done after renovating a temple . After reading Ponniyin selvan a book written by author Kalki who is famous in historical stories with fictional characters added to make it more interesting to readContinue reading “Gangai konda Cholapuram”

On maatu pongal ( 16th January 2020 ) day my daughter and grand daughter visited us after worshipping Pongal at their place . We decided to visit our farm near Thiruthani ( Podatur to chittoor road ). There is Lord Murugar temple in Thiruthani , which is one of his abode in ” arupadai veeduContinue reading “Mathur Mahishasuramarthini and Thiruvalangadu”

Last march 2019 we visited Shirdi . We are from Chennai and got down in Pune railway station early in the morning . Every year we visit Shirdi to get the blessings of Saibaba . Got freshen up had breakfast and started to Saibaba temple as our room was very near . Being blessedby theContinue reading “Shirdi and Panchavati”

Today ( 6.1.2020 ) being Ekadesi decided to go to Lord Vishnu temple as last year went to Thirukachi Nambi temple in Poonthamallee , this time wanted to visit Pachaivarna Perumal temple in Agaramel village near Nazarath pettai , Thiruvallur district in Tamilnadu . This temple is between Poonthamallee and Thirumazhisai . Though we areContinue reading “Pachaivarana Perumal temple”

Pandurangar ( Lord Krishna) is the main deity of Pandarpur . He is also known as Vithalla or Vithoba and his consort as Rukmani . Pandarpur is on the banks of chandrabagha river in Sholapur district of Maharashtra . The uniqueness of this temple is one could touch the Lord Pandurangars feet and its knownContinue reading “Pandarpur”

This temple is in Bengaluru to Mysore highway . It’s an ancient temple . Here the main deity is Lord Vishnu known as Ramaprameya and his consort Aravindavalli Thayar . I travelled from Bengaluru in bus got down in channapatna bus stop from there took a auto to this temple . It’s just 3 kmsContinue reading “Navaneetha Krishnan temple Doddamallur”

This is a Lakshmi Narasimhar sthethram , here the diety is santha swarupi .This place is 55 kms from chennai in Thiruvallur district. The main diety here is Lord Narasimhar with Goddess Lakshmi on his lap and in a alinganam posture .The idol of the Lord Narasimhar is about 8 feet and the thayar namedContinue reading “Narasinghapuram”

This is a pilgrimage place in Kurnool district in Andrapradesh . It’s the jeeva sammadhi of Raghavendra swamy , (its believed that Raghavendra swamy was born as Prahaladh in his first incarnation).This holy place is also called as Brindhavan . The temple is serene and divine . There is Lord Hanuman idol opposite to RaghavendrarContinue reading “Mantralayam”

After Hampi visit we reached Anegundi a small village . Anjanadri hill is a small hillock in Anegundi ( the birth place of Lord Hanuman ). Nearby is a Durga mandir and Pampasarover a sacred pond opposite to it is a Goddess Mahalakshmi temple , Lord Ramar padham , seetha padham and Sabari padham areContinue reading “Navabrindhavan Anegundi”

It was our long term dream to visit Hampi . We visited Hampi in June 2018. As we are from Chennai we travelled to Bengaluru in train ,from Bengaluru to Hospet, we reached Hospet early morning from station we travelled by jeep to Heritage group of Hotels to freshen up, took bath in the sacredContinue reading “Hampi”

Anjanadri hill is a small hillock in Anegundi(small village just 5 kms from Hampi)which is the birthplace of Lord Hanuman. The view from the top of the hill is awesome. The view of Tungabhadra river flowing, paddy and plantain trees all over.It is a very scenic and breezy place .All the Hampi river side ruinsContinue reading “Anjanadri hill anegundi”