Two Arunachaleswarar Temple Online Virtual Tours

 

For those eager to take a walk around Arunachaleswarar Temple, there are currently two virtual online tours you can experience. One is the 360° tour at this link

and the other tour of Arunachaleswarar Temple, can be found at this link here

Thiruvoodal Festival 2021: Gods Circumambulate Arunachala

 

Further to the previous post, to read about this unique Thiruvoodal festival and details of the "quarrel" between the Divine couple go to this link here. The quarrel enacted on the mada vedhi street, results in an implacable Parvati refusing to continue to talk with Shiva. She re-enters Arunachaleswarar Temple without him. In order to placate Parvati and as night is approaching, the Lord who has agreed to circumambulate Arunachala, turns away from the Big Temple and spends the night at Sri Kumara Koil on Thirumanjana Street. The next morning he starts on his Arunachala circumambulation. On his way around the Hill, the Lord stops at the Asta Lingams, Temples and Shrines to offer his Blessings to devotees.

 

 

Day 5. Daytime. Deepam 2020: Arunachaleswarar Temple

While we are all grateful that a 2020 Deepam Festival is being celebrated at Tiruvannamalai, it is hoped that this year and its reduced Festival is an anomaly never to be repeated and that devotees need not be deprived in future years of the majesty and delight of the Arunachala Karthigai Mahadeepam Festival.

In this regard, just as a reminder of what the usual Festival looks like on Day 5 of this Festival, I am posting three photographs below of an earlier year's celebration of this day. First photograph is of the Lord on his Silver Elephant Vahana, the second is of the 4 Saiva Samaya Acharyas and the third photo shows students carrying the rest of the 63 Nayanars on their own individualised palanquins. 

To read more about the significance of this day, please refer to this posting in the archives of an earlier year's Deepam at this link here.

To learn more about the Nayanars, go to this link here.

 

Lord on Silver Elephant Vahana

 

Saiva Samaya Archaryas

 

 

Nayanars on Individual Palanquins

 

Pradosham July 18, 2020 Arunachaleswarar Temple

The above video is of Pradosham at the Big Temple on July 18, 2020. Usually pradosham is heavily attended at the Temple, so seeing the area around Periyar Nandi so deserted, does seem rather strange. This video was live streamed, and the Temple is putting on some very special programs at this time. So suggest you subscribe to their channel and get very nice darshan.

Periyar Nandi, 5th Prakaram

Kodi Kampathu Nandi, 3rd Prakaram

Efficacy of Self Enquiry

Recently uploaded new material on the Arunachala Samudra website. So please check out these new postings. 

In particular you might enjoy looking through the section on Self Enquiry, at this link here. 

The section which is Ramana Maharshi-centric is filled with His advice and suggestions regarding Self Enquiry and how to perform it. This is invaluable information in these trying times. 

As to the efficacy of Self Enquiry, Sri Sathya Sai Baba said: 

"All agitations will cease the moment one enters, "Who Am I?". This was the sadhana that Ramana Maharshi achieved and taught to his disciples. This is also the easiest of all disciplines." 

[Sri Sathya Sai Baba] 

Just a little Self Enquiry helps still the mind. 

In this regard there is an interesting quote by Frank H. Humphreys, an Englishman who came to India in 1911 to serve as assistant superintendent of police in Madras. He was the first Western devotee of Ramana Maharshi. 

Later in his life, he turned away from worldly things, entered a monastery and became a monk. 

“The phenomena we see are curious and surprising—but the most marvellous thing of all we do not realize, and that is that one and only one illimitable force that is responsible for all the phenomena we see and the act of seeing them. Do not fix your attention on all these changing things of life, death and phenomena. Do not think of even the actual act of seeing them or perceiving them, but only of that which sees all these things, that which is responsible for it all. This will seem nearly impossible at first, but by degrees the result will be felt. It takes years of study and daily practice, but that is how a master is made. 

Give yourself a quarter of an hour a day. Try to keep the mind unshakably fixed on that which sees. It is inside you. Do not expect to find that ‘That’ is something definite on which the mind can be fixed easily—it will not be so. Though it takes years to find that ‘That’, the results of this concentration will soon show themselves in four or five months time—in all sorts of unconscious clairvoyance, in peace of mind, in the power to deal with troubles, in the power all around, always unconscious power. 

I have given you these teachings in the same words that the master gives to his intimate disciples. From now on, let your whole thought in meditation be not on the act of seeing, nor on what you see, but immovably on that which sees.” 

2017 Navaratri Tiruvannamalai Festival Pictorial Report Links

Below are listed the photo galleries of the 2017 Navaratri Tiruvannamalai Pictorial Report. Click the link at each section to view that particular gallery.

2017 Kolu Display at Yogi Ramsuratkumar Ashram

2017 Kolu Display at a Tiruvanamalai Home

2017 Navaratri Alangarams Days 1, 2, 3

2017 Navaratri Alangarams Days 5, 6

2017 Navaratri Alangarams Days 7, 8, 9

2016 Arunachala Karthigai Festival: Online Streaming and Live TV Coverage—December 12, 2016

Karthigai Deepam will be lit on the top of the holy mountain Arunachala at Tiruvannamalai around 6 pm on December 12, 2016 and be visible from a radius of about 35km.

Arunachala Deepam from a previous year

Live online streaming of the 2016 Arunachala Karthigai Deepam can be viewed on the links listed below:-

DD Podhigai: www.ddpodhigai.org.in/live.html 

Thanthi TV: www.thanthitv.com 

Jaya TV News: www.jayanewslive.com 

Sun News: www.sunnewslive.in 

News7 Tamil: www.ns7.tv 

Puthiya thalaimurai TV: www.puthiyathalaimurai.tv 

Polimer News: www.polimernews.com 

Deepam at Arunachaleswarar Temple with Arunachala background from a previous year

Live coverage of the 2016 Arunachala Karthigai Deepam can also be viewed on the below Tamil TV stations:-

Jaya TV 
DD Podhigai 
Thanthi TV 
Sun News 
Vasanth TV 
Puthiya Thalaimurai TV 
Polimer News 
News7 Tamil 
Sri Sankara TV 
Kalaignar Seithigal 
Captain News 
Makkal TV 
Mega TV 
Raj News 
Lotus New

Take a Virtual Tour of Arunachaleswarar Temple

Arunachala Grace has a link on the left column of this Blog entitled Arunachaleswarar Temple inviting readers to right click to take an amazing virtual tour of the Temple. For those that haven’t taken the 360 degree online tour, please do, its excellent. Click at this link here.

There is also another site that offers 360 degree views of the following at Arunachaleswarar Temple:-

Amman Sannathi

Moolavar Vimanam

East Rajagopuram

Urchavar Mandapam

Nanthi Mandapam

Parrot Gopuram

Perumal Sannathi

Sivagangai Teertham

Shivan Sannathi

To begin with take a tour of Mother's Shrine at this link here.

Amman Sannathi