Sabarimala & Sri Sadasiva Brammendra Jeeva Samathi ( Oct 18-20 ,2013)

First i tell infinite thanks to my friend Mr. Sangamesh and  Mr Sri Hari. Both of my friends made my dreams to True.

Team Members ( Rajendra, Sangamesh, Sri Hari, Dhanush , Shreya & Muruli).

Sri Sadasiva Brammendra Jeeva Samathi

Nerur is a fertile village and which is just 8 kms from karur. In a poornima day we had been to the village. Since it was poornima. Adi Perukku and thursday the village was filled with devotees. We have managed to enter the village and we felt that as if we had been in heaven.

It is said that the “Jeeva Samadhi of Sadasiva Brammen dra” at this village is being workshipped by various devotees from various states. Sadasiva Brammendra was born to Somanatha Yogi and Parvathi. They were blessed by God while they were at Ramnad. As a result, they have given birth a male child and they have earlier named him Sivarama Krishnan. The boy learnt all Vedas / Epics / and all arts. The boy learnt all subjects from Sridhar Ayyaval and then Parmasivandral.

He was called by the King of mysore where he tested the knowledge of all pundits. Since no body could stood on their subject because of the counter of Sivarama Krishnan whom his guru Parmasivandral called Sadasivan Brammendra.

Sadasiva Brammendra was advised by his guru to adopt mounam and Sanyasam.

Thanked to god sadasivan came to Agathiam Parai at kodumudi and prayed the God. Since the place was surround ed by cauvery water he continued his prayer months together there. After some time a flood came in cauvery river and he was rolled by water. Due to this he was in depth of river and covered with sand. After some time the people while they were dugging the sand they saw the sanyasi was praying god. He did not wear dress and people paid much respect to him.

Once Sadasiva Brammandra entered in to a Moghal King’s Palace. The king was with his Queen and other maids. Since the Sanyasi was entering the palace without dress the king got much anger and he cut off the hand of sanyasi. Without caring these incident the Sanyasi was moving. Keeping the hand on his hand the king rushed towards Sanyasi and requested him to forgive for his misdeeds. The sanyasi got the hand from the king and placed on his shoulder which was pasted.like this sadasivan done so many miracles.

Sadasiva Brammendra after some time came to Nerur where he intended to attain Jeeva Samathi. He has called his chief disciples viz. (through Yoga) Maharaja of mysore, Pudu kottai and Tanjore and advised them to form a cave for his Jeeva Samathi. He added that on ninth day on his head a “Vilvam Tree” will came out and on 12th day from Kasi Shetram a lingam will arrive. He concluded stating them to construct a temple.

Earlier he had been prayed by a devotee sastry at manamadurai and a Muslim devotee at Karachi requesting him that they have to be nearer to him on his Jeeva Samathi day. Bramendra made Jeeva Samathi at Manamadurai and Karachi apart from Nerur.

Sabarimala

Sabarimala Sree Ayyappa Temple is one of the most ancient and prominent Sastha temples in the country. Located in the Western Ghat mountain ranges of Pathanamthitta district in Kerala, Sabarimala Sri Dharmasastha Temple is one of the few Hindu temples in India that is open to all faiths. The shrine of Sabarimala is one of the most remote shrines in southern India yet it still draws three to four million pilgrims each year. Surrounded by mountains and dense forest Sabarimala is believed to be the place where Ayyappan meditated. Perhaps the best known pilgrimage destination in Kerala is Sabarimala. Sabarimala Sri Dharmasastha Temple is the most famous and prominent among all the Sastha Temples. It is believed that "Parasurama Maharshi" who retrieved Kerala from the sea by throwing his axe, installed the idol of Ayyappa at Sabarimala to worship Lord Ayyappa.

Surya, Talakaveri, Bhagamandala Temple & Other Places on Oct 5 and 6 2013

Sri Sadashiva Rudra Temple

South Canara is mainly famous for its unique temples and traditions in Karnataka.Sadashiva Rudra Temple, located in Suriya Village,near Dharmastala is one among them.Mainly dedicated to Lord Shiva, the temple has got a unique tradition of offering clay sculptures to God. Generally people offer money or gold to God when their wishes are fulfilled as a symbol of gratitude, but in this temple people make clay offerings to the God.The Suriya temple is probably only one of its kind because of its unique tradition of clay offerings.

Devotees pray god for their wishes/desires.Once it is fulfilled the devotees along with their clay offerings have to go to the temple preferably on Mondays along with a coconut and a kg of rice.The offerings are available in temple premises which are clay sculptures of your requests.For example chair and table symbolizes job, marriage means small sculptures of bride and groom, human body parts like ear,eyes,heart etc. You can also see children, cradles, limbs, houses, automobiles, coconuts, cattle,eggs, computer,watch,aeroplane etc.., this list is probably endless (as desires of people are endless!!).

There is a small tank near by the temple.All the clay offerings are made in a separate place called Mannina Harake Bana ( Clay Offerings Place) which is close to temple.You can see a huge collection of clay sculptures there.Its believed that temple is around 700 years old.But no one in the temple knows the importance behind this clay offerings.

Clay is within the tradition of India.We make ganesha idol,durga mata idol(usually in West Bengal) and many more using clay.So clay must be pure and good compared to anything and I believe god likes to get clay offerings.

Suriya is around 12km from Dharmastala,which has good connectivity from all parts of Karnataka.You can hire a jeep or auto from Dharmastala to get in to the place.

Temple timings 7 30AM to 2PM and 4PM to 6.30PM.

Address of the temple

Administrator

Sri Sadashiva Rudra Temple

Surya, Nada Grama, Permanu.

Beltanagday Tq, DK-574214.

Talakaveri(ತಲಕಾವೇರಿ)

Talakaveri (Kannada: ತಲಕಾವೇರಿ), is the place that is generally considered to be the source of the river Kaveri. It is located by Brahmagiri hill (not to be confused with the Brahmagiri range further south) near Bhagamandala in Kodagu district, Karnataka, 1,276 m. above sea level. However, there is not a permanent visible flow from this place to the main rivercourse except during the rainy season.

A tank or kundike has been erected on a hillside, at the place that is said to be the origin. It is also marked by a small temple, and the area is frequented by pilgrims. The river originates as a spring feeding this tank, which is considered to be a holy place to bathe on special days. The waters are then said to flow underground to emerge as the Kaveri river some distance away. The temple has been renovated extensively by the state government recently [2007].

On Tulasankramana day (the first day of Tula Masa month, according to the Hindu calendar, which normally falls in mid October) thousands of pilgrims flock to the river's birthplace to witness the rise of the fountainhead, when water gushes up from the spring at a predetermined moment. The tula snanam (Sacred bath in the Tula month) is observed across pilgrim towns in Kaveri's banks.[1]

Talakaveri is about 8 km away from Bhagamandala and 48 km from Madikeri.

Bhagamandala (ಭಾಗಮಂಡಲ)

Bhagamandala (ಭಾಗಮಂಡಲ) is a pilgrimage place in Kodagu district of Karnataka. It is situated on the river Kaveri in its upstream stretches. At this place, the Kaveri is joined by two tributaries, the Kannike and the mythical Sujyoti river. It is considered sacred as a river confluence (kudala or triveni sangama, in Kannada and Sanskrit respectively). Similarly the other related place is Udhaka mandala(British name: Ooty) which means land beside water body in Kannada and Sanskrit respectively.

It is a common practice for pilgrims to take a dip in the triveni sangama and perform rituals to their ancestors before proceeding to Talakaveri, the birthplace of Kaveri. During Tula Sankramana which falls on October 17 or 18th, pilgrims assemble here in large numbers.

Triveni sangama near Bhagmandala temple

A short distance from the triveni sangama, there is a famous temple known as Sri Bhagandeshwara temple, where Bhagandeshwara (Ishwara), Subramanya, Mahavishnu and Ganapati idols are installed. This place is also known as Bhagandeshwara Kshetra, from which the name Bhagamandala is derived. The temples in this area are built in Karavali(West Coast) style.

During 1785–1790, the area was occupied by Tipu Sultan. He renamed Bhagamandala to Afesalabad. In 1790 King Dodda Vira Rajendra took Bhagamandala back into an independent Kodagu kingdom.

Bhagamandala is located about 33 km from the district headquarters Madikeri and is connected by paved roads from Madikeri, Virajpet and nearby places in Karnataka and Kerala. Government and private buses are available on all of these routes.

Bylakuppe (ಬೈಲಕುಪ್ಪೆ)

The Tibetan Monastery or the Tibet Camp as locally called is located around 6 kms from Kushalnagar town towards Mysore. This Tibetan settlement at Bailkoppa or Baylkuppe is the the second largest Tibetan settlement outside Tibet. There are over 7,000 monks and students at the Tibetan monastery.buddha statue coorg

After the Chinese took over Tibet, the refugees were settled at Bylkuppe near Kushalnagar and the Buddhist Monastery was re-established here in 1972. It houses over 7,000 monks and students today. The monastery not only attracts large number of young Tibetans seeking enlightenment and education, but also draws huge tourists from all over India and abroad.

tibetan monksBylakuppe Tibetan settlement consists of a number of small camps close to each other, and has a lot of monasteries, nunneries. Most famous among them are the large educational institution Sera, the smaller Tashilunpo monastery and Namdroling monastery.

The 40 ft tall golden Buddha statues are the major attractions of Bailkoppa. The statues of Buddha, Padmasambhava, and Amitayus are the notable ones. The walls of the temples and the institutions are decorated with colorful paintings depicting gods and demons from Tibetan Buddhist mythology. The altar is decorated with flowers, candles and incense sticks.

Apart from the calm and peaceful surroundings there are shopping centers near the temples where one can shop for traditional Tibetan items like costumes, statues, carpets, jewelery etc.

DD Hills Phots on 27-07-2013

Udupi - Mangalore Trip

Shree Jenukal Siddeshwara Swamy Betta.

           Yadapur is one of the India Village. It is located at the longitude of 76.170631 and latitude of 13.296185. Arsikere is a India city located at the longitude of 76.237655 and latitude of 13.317655 . The total distance between Yadapur to Arsikere is 7 KM (kilometers) and 637.25 meters. The mile based measurement distance is 4.7 miles.

             

           Shree Jenukal Siddeshwara Betta is located in yadhapura,Near to Arsikere,hassan district.

Here we have a hill(betta)called shree jenukal siddeshwar betta or Jenukal betta.

The name of God is shree jenukal siddeshwar swamy( swamy, ajjay,siddappa,siddappaji etc ...).

siddeshwar swamy is very familour and famous in all most karnataka ,india ,nationalwise also.

The hill is have one thousand one hundreden one step.

Top of the Hill

Sri Siddeswara Pada

Sri Siddeswara pada

step are made up of well formated rect stones,and in between this we can have a good facility of water available for bhaktha's Refreshments and Free Meals.

On the top of this hill you can see a Gopura which looks very good in this you can see the foot prints of siddeshwar swamy(mullasthana).

The God is very strict on cleaness and maintainance over here.there are certain processes which can take place daily.

Early Morning Rudra-Abhisheka at 2:30am after that the whole day you can see a lot of Bhakthru and pooja's.

On the top of the hill you can see the nature of the surrounded area which is full of coconut trees and chained mountains and hills.

This hill contains a many caves which is having there own history and you can see a honey nest's on the big rocks.These bee's are indicates the God's sign they monitor the each and every moment which takes place over here,Any thing wrong in any of the process of publicily or privatley in this area,you will be face the sign of punishment in a fraction of moment.

Here you can see a full day pooja.
No moon day special pooja(hamavasae.).
Full moon day special pooja with lot of devotes and bhaktha's, we call this day as purnavame.its like big devotional day in every month..

Bhajana will be there on night of NO-MOON DAY AND FULL-MOON DAY.

Here we have celebration of big festival in the month of April every year we call it as jathra, which takes place a week,whole week for each day we have pooja and other moments also.

In the month of "May", we have another Jathra which is having there own History. 

Tirupati- Tirumala by Foot

Date: 23rd April and 24th April 2012 ( Photoes by Sateesh)

TEAM MEMBERS

Ramkumar
Purushotham
Sateesh
Raghavandra
Kumarswamy
Harsha
Rajendra
Sadananda
Lakshminarayana
Prasad

TIRUMALA ON FOOT

Left Bangalore on 23rd April, the train (yeshvanthpur- Howra Fast Express) was at 7-35 pm,i left office early  at 5pm and  brought the eveing food ( Idli,Vade, Kharabhat and Shavigebhat  ) in Malleswarm ralway station canteen and reach at 6-30pm in Yeshvanthpur.am awaiting for my offiece collegues ( Mr Puru, Sateesh and Kumarswamy) they have strucked at office for some urgent official work, they  finally reached by 7-25 pm.

All we had nice evening snacks, played some games (UNO-J Kumaraswamy, three time UNO Champion-Mr. Purushotham) had some tea and slept away,  Train reached Tirupathi by 2am (scheduled time 2-30) caught two Autos to Alipiri reached over there had bath freely provided by TTD Authorities, by God's grace saying "EDU KONDALAVADA VENKATARAMANA GOVINDA GOVINDA' started on journey to the Divine Holy Shrine Seven Hills God Balaji, we have proceeding an small incident occured Fellow piligrim Ramkumar got low blood, giddiness only mr. purushotham was accompanying him we all almost covered nearly 2500 footsteps, he called over phone, but it was not reaching us, finally got and he informed what happened, Mr. Harsha and Mr.Kumar returned back to help him all the way 2500 footsteps down again then strength came to Mr. Purushotham, Harsha gone till further  get down 100 more steps to get a cup of a Coffee to him then we had a sigh of releif as he recovered from this, Purushotham and Ramkumar carried their journey by bus, again Mr. Harsha and Mr Kumar restarted their journey from starting from scratch once again except kumar and harsha we all reached Galigopura by 4-50 am, collected Token over there had some light tea and moved further enroute we had some nice view of the hillock all over passing and the first team reached hilltop by 7-30 am we had booked a room in Karnataka Pravasi Soudha(KPC) (0877-2277426), had once again bath, had a free breakfast (Courtesy: Mr Krishnaiah Setty, MLA, Malur Constituency, he is providing free meals to all the devotees of KPC) waited for the two men and they also reached by 09-30 am, they took some rest and they also had bath we went for having Darshan as we were entering once again Mr Kumar forget to bring the amount who was given to him to offer at Srivari Hundi, again back he went to room to bring that, finally the team dismantled

Sateesh , Raghavendra, Nani and Prasad went inside and setteled gate no 30 , my self and my cousin brother sadananda waited for kumar and harsha.As kumar's ticket was with me, we also entered  and settled at gate No. 32 saw the board over there our next darshan timing was at 2-30pm they served some Bisibele bathe & milk who were present there by 1pm our gate  opened and moved towards Darshan Que, Finally we had a nice Darshan of Balaji, we came back by 4-pm collected Laddus and Vada  Kumar broke his fasting by eating laddu. We had snacks at Hotel woodside and Hotel Mayura, left Tirumala at 6-00pm by Jeep.

We had a Dinner at Maya Restaurant nearby Railway Station and the food over there was excellent, we boarded Mysore Passenger Train (8-55pm)

Reached Bangalore on 25th by 7-30 am

Detailed INFORMATION 

Basic Rules

Before taking tour or treks, please have some little information about the place 
Some  basic rules to follow while climbing the Tirumala Hill


a) Absolutely No footwear while climbing (depends on individual)
b) Travel Light (Almost all supplies can be bought on the way )
c) Have a bottle of water handy
d) Some glucose for instant energy (Please check if you are diabetic), Dry Fruits etc
e) Try to carry a backpack, to keep your hands free; but don't stuff it
f) Since the hills are sacred, people suggest to climb only after taking bath.

Tirupati to Tirumala on Foot

For those of you who would like to climb the hills to Tirumala to fulfil a vow, there are two well-laid stone footpaths leading to Tirumala. These paths are called sopanamargas.

The more ancient of the two sopanamargas which starts from Alipiri at the foot of the hills, is about 11 km in length, and is the commonly-used route.

The other sopanamarga (Srivari mettu) from Chandragiri, though only about 6 km in length.

1.Token facility is provided for pedestrian who come on foot to Tirumala through Gali Gopuram or Srivari Mettu.

2.Bio-Metric counters are established on these foot paths, to facilitate free darshan, free accommodation (P.A.C.) and free food facilities at Tirumala.

TTD provides several facilities to pilgrims who walk up the hills to Tirumala.

Enterence

[Mr.Raghavendra,Mr Purushotham, Mr.Ramkumar,Mr Harsha, 
Mr Kumar, Mr Lakshminarayana, Mr.Rajendra, Mr Prasad &
Mr. Sadananda]

APSRTC runs free buses from the Tirupati Railway station to Alipiri, with a frequency of 30 minutes. Pilgrims who intend to walk up the hills to Tirumala can use these buses.Tirumala Venkateswara Temple is a Hindu temple in the hill town of Tirumala, near Tirupati in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. It is around 600 km (370 mi) from Hyderabad, 138 km (86 mi) from Chennai and 291 km (181 mi)  from Bangalore.The Tirumala Hill is 853m above sea level and is about 10.33 square miles (27 km) in area. It comprises seven peaks, representing the seven heads of Adisesha, thus earning the name Seshachalam. The seven peaks are called Seshadri, Neeladri, Garudadri, Anjanadri, Vrushabhadri, Narayanadri, and Venkatadri. The temple is on Venkatadri (also known as Venkatachala or Venkata Hill), the seventh peak, and is also known as the "Temple of Seven Hills". The presiding deity of the temple is Lord Venkateswara, a form of the Hindu god Vishnu. Venkateswara is known by other names: Balaji, Govinda, and Srinivasa. The temple lies on the southern banks of Sri Swami Pushkarini, a holy water tank. The temple complex comprises a traditional temple building, with a number of modern queue and pilgrim lodging sites.The temple is the richest pilgrimage center, after the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, of any faith (at more than  50,000 crore) and the most-visited place of worship in the world. The temple is visited by about 50,000 to 100,000 pilgrims daily (30 to 40 million people annually on average), while on special occasions and festivals, like the annual Brahmotsavam, the number of pilgrims shoots up to 500,000, making it the most-visited holy place in the world.There are several legends associated with the manifestation of the Lord in Tirumala. According to one legend, the temple has a murti (deity) of Lord Venkateswara, which it is believed shall remain here for the entire duration of the present Kali Yuga.

Karpurada Arathi enroute to the hill on Footsteps

Gali Gopura

Nani, Rajendra & Sadananda

Malabal Squirrel

Team near  Moukula Mantapam