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The second day of our Mangalore spiritual tour we first visited , Kateel Sri Durga Parameshwari temple then it was a 45 minutes travel to Hosanadu Annapurneshwari temple which is near to mudbidre, around 6km from mudbidre.

In this temple a main Pooja @12pm is being performed everyday after that prasada will be served to all devotees at free of cost.

The temple has a huge complex in front after entering the temple arch 
With a 65 feet huge Lord Hanuman statue welcomes you , Purandhara dasa statue , colourfull idols of Radha Krishna, Goddess Durga and a huge rotating granite ball . 

It has gowshala and temple elephant, horse bull, deer and rabbit a mini zoo infact . Very famous temple spread over big area. Not an historical temple but the one built during our time by an ardent devotee of the Goddess by name Sri Jayarama Hegde. 

The entire temple surroundings are maintained clean and neat. The presiding deity is Goddess Annapoorneshwari who bestows on you all the prosperity. 

There are tokens sold in the office for Annadhan for Rs. 200 if we buy it they offer us a plate of rice which we have to take inside the main deity Goddess Annapoorni, the priest here performs archana when we give him this plate and offers us a few grains of rice which they ask us to keep in our pooja room as it is sacred . It is believed that one who does this archana will never face any famine for their food in their life time. They call this ritual as “Akki samarpane.”

“ANNAPOORNE SADA POORNE
SHANKARA PRAANA VALLABHAE
JHAN VAIRAGYA SIDHYARTAM
BIKSHAAM DEHI CHA PARVATI”

A Slogan on Goddess Annapoorni meaning 

Annapoorne – The Wife of Lord Shiva, She who is full of food.
Sadapoorne – Who is always full of resources,
Sankara – of Lord Sankara (Shiva),
Prana – The life,Force, Energy,
Vallabhe – The beloved,
Jnana – Knowledge,
Vairagya – Attitude of renunciation,
Siddhyartham – To fulfill the purpose of,
Bhiksham – Alms, food,
Dehi – Give us,
Namostute – We bow down to you 

A traditional South Indian style of design was envisioned with shrines to Devi Annapoorneshwari, Prasanna Ganapathi, Shree Naga Sannidhi, Lord Anjineya Adi Sankaracharya and Madwacharya ,and the Navagraha. There is a seperate shrine of SaiBaba too .

The Mantapam housing the Devi shrine can accomodate over 400 devotees. The core ethos behind the worship of the Goddess Annapoorneshwari is the provision of meals to all visitors. The temple’s main dining hall, ‘Annapoorna’ is housed in an area covering over 6000 square feet with a capacity to accomodate 900 guests in each sitting.

Here in the Kshetra, thousands of people partake the prasadam, which is served day and night. It is considered a blessing to take food at the temple. Annapoorneshwari Kshetra is known for Annadaanam. Various Poojas and Maha Poojas are conducted with great devotion and grace. The Annual festival of the temple is performed with a lot of festivities.

Sri Durga Parameshwari temple Kateel .The temple is around 25Km away from Mangalore . You can visit Nellithirtha and this temple together.

This temple does not close from morning to evening. You can still have the dharshan of the Goddess Durga Parameshwari in the afternoon.

We had visited this temple during my mangalore spiritual trip.The deity is very powerful and believed to full-fill your wishes. This temple is a great source of positive energy.

Kateel (Kati) means in the middle, as it is situated in the middle of Kanakagiri and Pavanje .

The river Nandini flows below the temple. It is also called as boat shaped temple. If you visit the temple in rainy season you will feel as if the temple is like a boat floating in the river Nandini .

As per legends demon Arunasura got the boon that he cannot be killed by man, Women, Trimurthi or any living being with two or four legs. He got this boon because he got upadesha of Gayathri mantra from Jabali Maharishi , since then he was constantly reciting Gayathri mantra, he became very powerful that no one could not touch him .

Jabali Maharishi asked Narada to find a solution to kill this demon . He did penance in Nellithirtha. Due to the boon even Lord Shiva was helpless . Lord Shiva suggested Jabali Maharishi to impress Goddess Parvathi as she can only solve the problem .

Jabali Maharishi does penance but Goddess Parvathi does not get impressed . Later, Jabali Maharishi on the advice of the gods conducts a Vishwachandika yaga .

Arunasura comes to know about it and comes to spoil the yaga , but fails. The Chandika yaga pleases Goddess Parvathi, she assures Jabali she will indeed end the life of the demon but, Arunasura has to stop chanting Gayathri mantra .

Deva guru Brahaspathi visits demon Arunasura and suggests him that he is too great to recite Gayathri mantra . Arunasura falls in the trap and stops chanting Gayathri mantra.

In the mean time Goddess Parvathi comes in the form of Mohini and entices Arunasura. When Arunasura follows her she runs and disappears inside a rock . Arunasura hits the rock and the rock opens and a sparm of bees come and chase him. Thus Goddess Parvathi takes the form of Brahmara (Bee) and kills the demon . Hence she is also called Brahmarambika .

After the end of Arunasura, all the gods ask goddess to take shantha Roopa and stay in this place to bless the devotees, She agrees and takes the shape of Durga parameshwari.

It is believed that Jabali Maharshi had cursed Nandini (The sacred cow) daughter of Kamadhenu to flow as a river, when she refused to come to earth with Jabali . When she repents , Jabali blessed her that Goddess Parvathi will come and stay at her shore and her curse will be cleared.

The Durga Parameshwari idol is made up of gold, it is very small in size and only oil lamps light the sanctum. There is no light in the sanctum. Having her divine darshan only in the light of lamps is magical moment.

When you enter the temple, on the left side you can see the rock from where Devi came as Brahmara . There is Naga deva and Ganapathi inside the temple premise.

Devi is considered to be very fond of mallige (jasmine) so devotees offer it with prayers.

This temple does not close from morning to evening. You can have the dharshan of the Goddess in the afternoon section too though we went in the morning.

This temple is a great source of positive energy. Visit the same to feel it.

Many devotees offer black bangles to the deity. The same are distributed to the other devotees as it keep negative energies away don’t forget to collect them. You can get it from priests who distribute Theertha and Prasada in the temple.

Please visit the official website of the temple for more details

From Kadri Manjunath temple we went to this temple by evening 7.30 pm. Our tour organizer insisted that visiting this temple in illumination is a visual treat , really we were amazed seeing the temple glittering in the light effects .

This temple is situated in Kudroli area (about 5 km from the City Bus Stand) in the city of Mangalore. . It is dedicated to Gokarnanatha, a form of Lord Shiva.

Built in 1912, is one of the main attractions of Mangalore. Sri Gokarnanatheshwara Temple is a unique Temple built by Sri Narayana Guru, the saint and social reformer from Kerala, and is the only one in Karnataka by Guru. The reformist Narayana Guru installed this temple for the Billava community, who were prohibited the entry to other Temples.

Gokarnanatheshwara, Lord Shiva, is the main deity. The main Temple is surrounded by the smaller Temples for Mahaganapathi, Subramanya, Shaneeshwara, the Navagraha, Annapoorneshwari and Anandabhairava.

One should visit this temple during evenings in illumination the temple glows like gold .

The whole temple seemed to be glittering in gold at the entrance a huge Lord Hanuman Saibaba and Lord Shiva pariwar were there and huge golden doors . Gitopadesham elephants and Poorna kumbham all were gold and was a visual treat at the backside of the temple was fountain show along with Lord Shiva in mountains.

This was the last temple for the first day of our Mangalore spiritual tour.

This temple is located in the heart of Mangalore. This is one of the ancient temples . From Kukke Subramanya after having lunch we reached this temple by 5 pm .

It is said that Parashurama who was living in Sahyadri, killed the kshathriyas who were cruel and donated the lands to Kashyapa. He prayed to Lord Shiva for a place to live. Lord Shiva assured Parashurama that if he performed a penance at Kadali kshethra, Lord Shiva would reincarnate as Manjunatha for the betterment of the world. As per Shiva’s orders Parashurama threw his axe into the sea and created a place for his penance. Yielding to Parashurama’s prayers Lord Shiva appeared to him as Manjunatha with Goddess Parvathi and stayed at Kadri for the betterment of the world. As per the orders of Manjunatha the sapthakoti manthras become the seven theerthas .

The chief deity of this temple is Manjunatha, which incorporates a Shiva linga. The statue of Lokeshwara in the seated position with three faces and six arms is tipped to be the best bronze statue in India. It is about 1.5 meter tall.

There’s a garden surrounding the ponds. When one walks down from there in front of the temple is a huge lightpole. During karthika maasa, deepothsava is held here.

There is a natural spring at an elevated location at the back of the temple. It is called Gomukha. It is believed that the water flows from Bhageerathi river, in Kashi and thereby it gets its name as Kashi Bhageerathi theertha. The water from this spring is let into seven ponds of different sizes adjacent to it. Visitors wash themselves in these ponds before entering the main temple.

There are statues of Machendranath, Gorakanath, Shringinath, Lokeshwara, Manjushri, and Buddha in the temple.

From Dharmasthala we went to Kukke Subramanya. The distance was about 45 km and it took 2 hours for us to reach .

In this temple Kartikeya is worshipped as Subramanya , lord of all serpents. The epics relate that the divine serpent Vasuki and other serpents found refuge under Subramanya when threatened by the Garuda.

Kukke Subrahmanya, one among the seven holy places created by Parashurama is mythologically and historically famous for “Nagaradhane”. Residing with Vasuki, God Subrahmanya showers his divine grace on devotees as the presiding deity of the Kshetra. It is also called “Guptha Kshetra”. “Mruthika Prasada” given here is regarded as sacrosanct. The devotees believe that the holy bath in the Kumaradhara Thirtha and Madesnana eradicate dreaded diseases like leprosy. Diseases related to skin, the devotees firmly believe, get cured here. God Subrahmanya has earned an honorific title “Annadana Subbappa”. Thousands of devotees receive Annadana everyday here . Special pooja are done for those having naga doshas and behind the temple is Adi Subramanya with a pond besides it . The temple is calm and serene .

Adi Kukke Subramanya Swamy
Sri Kshetra is on the river bank of Kumaradhara. Born to annihilate the demonic forces. Kumaraswamy Killed Tarakasura and other Asuras in the battle to Kumaraparvatha with his from this sibling Ganapathi. Devendra had decided to give away his daughter Devasena to him on “Margashira Shudda Shasti”. Accordingly the marriage took place on the banks of Kumaradhara Thirtha. Bestowing his grace on “Sarpa Raja” Vasuki, who was doing Thapasya at that time. Kumaraswamy assured to dwell along with Devasena in him. Since then, it is behind that Lord Shanmukha (Skanda) in his spiritual presence is residing with Vasuki in the shrine.

Five Thousand year old Temple: In the past Subrahmanya Kshethra, the edicts and Grantha inform, was known as Kukke Pattana. Shankara Vijaya authored by Ananda speaks about Sri Adi Shankaracharya visiting Subrahmanya during his philosophical conquest and his sojourn here. Reference to his sketra could be inferred from “Bhaje Kukkelinga” which forms a part of “Subrahmanya Bhujanga Prayatha Sthotra” composed by Sri Adi Shankaracharya. According to Sthala Purana many Devarushis installed Shivalingas in this Kshetra. Reference to such Shivalingas should be understood as Kukkelinga.

Sanathkumara Samhite in Sri Skanda Purana (a portion of it is called Sahyadri Khanda which describes pilgrimage places) informs that Subrahmanya Kshetra is on bank of Dhara. Sri Shanmukha Swamy after vanquishing Tarakasura and other Asuras washed his weapons of destruction in this thirtha and hence the name Kumaradhara is derived from this episode.

People affected by / suffering from Sarpadosha, whose diseases were not cured by medication, undertake sevas and these they are able to fulfill their wishes. During Subrahmanya Shasti the devotees participate in Beedhi Madesthana, the remover of their physical and mental problems. Not only that, the performing of Madesthana on Uchista of mass feeding and Uruluseva in the quadrangle are well known vows undertaken in this temple.

The first temple we visited during our Mangalore spiritual tour is Sri Dharmasthala. 

We stayed in BNS residency Mangalore. We started after having our breakfast .

It’s about 77 kms from Mangalore to Dharmasthala. We reached in 2 hours by the time we reached it was about 10.30 am and it was little drizzling . 

It’s in the state of karnataka at a distance of about 120 kms from Udupi . 

This Temple on the banks of the Netravati River is called Manjunatheshwaralayam.

The temple was built in the 10 BC Anyone having unreasonable court cases will get resolve if they visit and pray before this Swami. That is the power if belief that prevails strong vibrations at this place. The Jains established the Moolavirat in the temple.

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Amidst the piety and frolic of the temple town of Dharmasthala, situated at a kilometer from the Manjunatha temple and led by a beautiful pathway, is the majestic shrine of lord Bahubali standing at a height of 39-feet. 

This shrine can be reached by climbing steps of the hill for about 20 minutes or by road. The hilltop renders a heart-throbbing view of the temple town Dharmasthala with a lush green background in the mornings and lamp-lit in the nights .The best time for the tourists to visit this statue is in the morning to get away from humidity and sunny weather. On top of the hill, there are shelters and drinking water facilities for the pilgrims.

Bahubali statue