tiruvannamalai(tvm in short) is a small town about 175 km form chennai.its a temple town with a temple dedicated to shiva in the agni form(u can literally feel the heat as it is unusually hot inside the garba griha)
the temple dates back to vijayanagara period and is quite huge.
but the other main belief in tvm is that the hillock (at whose foothill the temple stands) is lord siva himself.so the 17 km path around the hill is like a pradakshina path.people call this practice of circambulating the hill as girivalam.
that brings me into the blog.yesterday i went to tvm with girivalam in mind.we started about 2 pm form chennai and reached tvm by 5 pm.we had darshan of the main deity and proceeded towards ramanashramam.
ramana (originally venkatramani) was one of the most respected(and is) self enlightened sages of south india.he came to tvm at the age of 13 leaving behing his family in madurai.
4 comments:
hmmmm...sweet memories...[:)]we ought to go again!should bring back some awesome memories...what say we go this hols?
P.V you complete asshole. You haven't returned any of my mails.You and your friend Arun. Anyway. I'm coming to town on the 24th of dec. I'm around till the 21st jan. MEET ME. Or i'll do something terrible to you - make you get married or something. Would you also tell ARun and BP and Karthik and NH ? Those guys don't return my mails either.
Arvind.
And would you ask Arun to enable anonymous comments on his site? How else can the general public ridicule him ?
Arvind
@aravind:hehehehehehe!dai...didn't get any of your mails da![:)]and sure...let's meet up some time...and if i know that it's you, what's the funda in posting it anonymously?!!?!unless...if you don't have a blogger accout...hmmmm...
@pv:sorry da...oru orkut scrapbook rangeukku un comment areva aakiten!shall delete it after that bum reads it!
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