Tag Venkateswara

Tirupati.Murugan,DurgaTemple, Buddhist Monastery?

Whether Tamil is more ancient than Sanskrit,Caste is foisted on the people by the Brahmins, Babri Masjid was not built-in Ram's Birth place, Taj Mahal was not built by Shah Jahan,Aurangzeb is a pious Man and the list is endless in India.

One such controversy is that the Balaji Temple was originally Lord Murga's Temple and it was later converted into a Vishnu Temple.

Tirupati is Murugan Temple.

1.Most common proof is the fact that the ancient Grammar of Tamils, right from Tholkappiyam while defining the characteristics of land masses, assigns Hilly terrains as the Abode of Lord Muruga.9(Thinai Illakkanam).

Land Masses were divided into five categories by the Tamils.

Kurinji-Hilly Terrains,-Deity Lord Muruga

Mullai-Forest-Lord Vishnu.

Marutham- Agricultural Land-Indra

Neydal-Coastal Regions-Lord Varuna.

Palai-Desert-Kotravai(Durga)

I do not find any reason either from the Purnas or Tamil Literature to support the view that it was Muruga's Temple.

Devotion Out Of Fear Is Fine

Ramani, we need Five hours to travel both ways, take one hour for darshan in Special Entrance, leave a buffer of an hour and we should be back by

One PM( we left Chennai by 6 AM)

I told him not to set a time frame to the One who sets Time for Every One, that too, to Lord Venkateswara.

He laughed off saying that I am a Superstitious Fool.

We reached Tirupati, entered the Special Entrance, queue,into the Single lane fenced by iron barrier, from where one can not come back before the darshan is over.

We were made to wait for Seventeen Hours to have the darshan .

Imagine my plight as my daughter refused to get down from my Hips and I had to attend to her calls of Nature, demand for Food!

From that day I stopped even discussing the plans.

As I remarked in one of my Posts, I leave for visiting Tempe,s with no fixed Plan and cover them as I go by and I have been Blessed with immediate and Easy darshan of the Deity, wherever I go.

It was against this background my son told me that I follow Religious Rites, believe In God,being Spiritual because of Fear.

I do not know.