My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

We were truly blessed to get the darshan of Shrinathji - the all powerful little Krishna - the Giver of all boons of the devotees.   We got to know of this great God when we first started our business through one of the persons who had lent us a h uge sum of money in 1997.  In fact, he was boarding the train to Udaipur when we met him to ask him for the loan.  There are a lot of people who begin  their account statement every year with the first entry to Shrinathji. I was hoping to find some time during the conference days to get His darshan.   The Lord always listens to His devotees.  We had originally planned to visit Kumbalgarh on sunday.  But the time to go up and down was not fitting our schedule and so then the planning started for Nathdwara - the Doorway to Narayan.  The beauty of little Krishna has to be seen and enjoyed.   He was all decked in Pink Color cloths and those few minutes were a bliss on earth....

This time I am going to write about a temple which is far away from Madras. I had been to Neyveli in connection with a family function this weekend. So on saturday , due to the insistence of my brotherinlaw we went to this temple after having visited Vallar's place of Siddhithi . I write about it separately in my next blog. Srimushnam , which has the temple of Bhuvaraghava Perumal , a Vishnu temple, is located just 20 kms from Virudhachalam where from you get lot of buses coming into the town. To list the importance of the place one by one here it is This is one of the 108 Divya (sacred places) Sthalams for the Vaishnavities one of the eight Vaishavas shrines where the idol is Swayambu (found as such) The idol represents the Varaha Avatar ( the 3rd avatar of the 10 avatars of Vishnu). It represents the Boar form. The body is that of a man and the head is of boar form While the temple itself is so huge, the main idol of the Lord is such a small one. It is believed...