Construction of new Shirdi Sai Baba Temple Girivalam Roadway

Groundbreaking and Bhumi Puja for Temple Construction took place at the end of April 2021 for the new Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple that is being constructed at the foot of Arunachala. 

The new Temple will be located on the right side of Girivalam Roadway near the junction with Kanji Road.

 

New Temple at junction of girivalam roadway and Kanji Road

Ashram on the right side of the Temple land

 

Vintage Arunachala Photographs

The below photographs show a relatively recent Arunachala and surrounds, but one which looks very deserted and empty. 

Arunachaleswarar Temple taken from the Hill

The Gods performing Girivalam of Arunachala

Young lad standing in front of Adi Annamalai Temple

Walking to Skanda Ashram before reforestation

Adi Annamalai Mahakumbhabhishekam

Sorry for the absence of postings in the last few months, but I am busy with researching and preparing material to upload to my website:

http://arunachalasamudra.org 

The material (comprising nearly 50 new pages) will be uploaded onto the website by the end of next month. In that upload there will be a full narrative detailing the recent Mahakumbhabhishekam at Adi Annamalai Temple. 

In the meantime am posting some photos of the final day of the function, which took place between 8.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. on Sunday July 15, 2012. 

Shirdi Sai Baba

Woke up this morning with the strong idea to visit the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple near Adi Annamalai. In previous posts on Arunachala Grace I wrote about the day that, ‘I travelled to Shirdi Sai Baba’, after hearing that a statue of Shirdi Sai was sitting in a crate on the site that would become its Temple Home. Subsequent to that visit, I also attended a beautiful function connected with the installation of the statue.

So today would be my first visit since the statue’s installation and Temple’s completion. Upon arriving at the Temple I learnt that today is also the ninth anniversary (in connection with this Temple) of Sri Sai in the aspect of ‘Akshaya Sri Sai’ – the ever-full vessel (of Grace and auspiciousness).

The Temple founder told me the story of seeing a statue of this Sri Sai aspect and immediately feeling compelled to acquire and bring the statue to Tiruvannamalai. This occurred nine years ago and now the same statue is installed in its own small shrine outside the main Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple.

Below are a few photographs of ‘Akshaya Sri Sai’ – the ever-full vessel (of Grace and auspiciousness)

And inside the main Temple, some beautiful paintings and photographs of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba.

And the statue of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba.

For those who 'look' to Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, please visit a very nice website dedicated to him which has a 'question and answer oracle feature'. It can be most inspirational.

Guru Poornima Camp 2009

Swami Suddhananda will conduct his annual Guru Poornima Camp for 2009 at his Ashram at Adi Annamalai, Tiruvannamalai from July 3rd to July 7th. To find out more please check this link here.

In the following interview Swami Suddhananda is asked:

“Sri Ramana Maharshi said that Self-enquiry is the most direct route to realising the Self. What do you say about Self-enquiry? How to conduct Self-enquiry?”

His reply starts: “First thing when you say Self-Enquiry . . . this is the tradition from the generations – so this enquiry has already been there for thousands of years.”

Click on this link to watch and listen to his response on Self-Enquiry.

Shirdi Sai Baba Shrine

In an earlier posting I talked about my adventure searching for a statue of Shirdi Sai Baba, that I had heard was sitting in a crate off the girivalam road near Adi Annamalai. My search was met with success and I had a nice darshan of Shirdi Sai Baba, albeit from outside the crate in which he had been delivered and was awaiting installation.

Happy to report that today Maha Kumbabhisekham was performed at the Shirdi Sai Baba Shrine, which will be known as, ‘Akshaya Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir’. For those who wish to visit the Shrine, it is located at Kubera Mannupillai Garden, Kosalai Gramam, Girivalam Road, Adi Annamalai.

I hope to soon visit the Shrine myself and thereafter post photographs on Arunachala Grace.

For more information of the extraordinary saint, Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, please visit the official website at this link here.