🕉 Centuries old Beautiful Thirumeeyachur Lalithambikai Temple & Lord Mahadev Meghanathaswami ,TN-The Kshetra where Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam -Sanskrit hymn describing the beauty of Goddess in 1000 names by Lord Hayagriva to Sage Agastyar was given as Upadesam 🚩1/5 @twttdc

🕉 2.Imposing 5Ft Goddess Lalithambikai is beautifully seated on SriChakra Simhasana in AbhayaHastha mudra.On VIJAYADASHAMI ,plantain leaves are spread in Sanctum over 15ft*5ft area & divided into 3 sections.1st section closest to Goddess ,100 kg of sweet Pongal/Rice is spread🚩

🕉 3. In the 2nd section, 100kg of tamarind rice & in the 3rd section- 100 kg of curd rice is spread – all one behind the other. In the middle of the sweet pongal, a huge hollow or trough is created and a large amount of liquid ghee is poured. It is called as “ghee well”. 🚩

🕉 4. After the special alankara of Sri Lalithambika & the Maha Aarthi is performed. The reflection of Beautiful Goddess Sri Lalithambika can be seen in the “ghee well!” This unique, most beautiful & awesome darshan is considered to be extremely auspicious🚩

🕉5. Devotees throng the shrine in large numbers on Vijayadasami day to have darshan of All Powerful Sri Lalithambika in “ghee well!” Sun Rays fall on Lord Shiva from Chithirai 21-27(April /May). Special Surya Pooja is performed on these days🚩@SriramKannan77 @DharmoRakshathi

VYAGHRAPADA AND NATARAJA

Vyaghrapada was a Shiva bhakt in Chidambaram region. Everyday he offered fresh flowers on Shivlinga.
One day, he observed that honeybees used to drink nectar from flowers before he offered them to Prabhu. So he started going to forest before sunrise.

In the course of collecting flawless flowers and tender bilva leaves, he got wounded by the thorns and rough surfaces of the trees. Still he continued his effort. Pleased Shiva gave him the boon of having tiger legs and eyes in the hands and feet.
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Vyaghrapada continued his tapas in the hope of seeing Ananda Tandava one day.
Much later, Mahadev was roaming in Thillai Vanam as a simple wanderer seeking alms.
The forest had some rishis who believed in the supremacy of magic and that Prabhu can be controlled by magic.

Their wives were enchanted by Shiva’s divine presence. Seeing this, the rishis invoked scores of snakes. Shiva lifted them and wore them as ornaments. Then a tiger was invoked. Shiva subdued the tiger n wore his skin around his waist. So the rishis invoked an Asura- Muyalakan.

Shiva stepped on its back, vanquished it and performed Ananda Tandava in his true form.
Vyaghrapada was finally able to see the divine Ananda Tandava and attained Moksha.
Thillai Nataraja Mandir depicts Vyaghrapada with tiger legs carrying a stick with hook and flower basket.

SRI VISHNU’s PANCHJANYA SHANKHA

In “Nachiyar Thirumozhi” Sri Andal yearningly asks Panchajanya how Prabhu’s lips smell.
“Karpooram naarumo kamala poo naarumo?”
Do they smell of camphor or lotuses, she wonders, envying the conch’s closeness to Krishna.
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Panchjanya/Shankhasur was a demon who lived in a conch in the depths of ocean. He kidnapped the son of Rishi Sandipani (Guru of Sri Krishna) and kept him as captive in this conch.
As Guru Dakshina, Sandipani asked Krishna to bring back his son.
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Krishna slew the demon, brought back his Guru-Bhai and took the conch which he gave the name Panchjanya.

Sinch then, the 5-fingered Panchjanya became a symbol of terror for evil and the herald of peace for the devoted.
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Guruvayur Sri Krishna & Coconut with Horns.
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We’ve all grown up listening to stories of Shri Krishna. This one is a famous story of Shri Krishna in Guruvayur Temple, also called Dakshina Dwaraka.

There lived a villager who planted coconut saplings and had promised that he would offer the 'first coconut' from each of his coconut trees to "Guruvayurappan". When the trees started to yield coconuts, he collected the first coconut from all the trees in a sack 👇

and set forth to Guruvayur.

On the way he was stopped by a robber who asked all the items in the sack. The villager told the robber that the coconuts in the sack belonged to Guruvayurappan and so he was unable to hand it over.
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The robber with anger asked the villager "Is Guruvaurappan's coconut any different? Does it have horns ?".
Saying so the robber pulled the sack forcefully out of the villager's hand, and coconuts came out..👇

To their astonishment each and every coconut in the sack had horns! Even today, the coconut with horns are displayed in the temple for devotees to see.

Below Picture is not original, as we cannot take photos inside temple.
Hare Krishna
Guruvayurappa
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Shubham