TThe Bhramanda purana says that Kasi and Kanchi are two eyes of siva .There is a
sloka elsewere mentioning seven mokshapuris in Bharata khanda: they are 1.
Ayodhya 2. Kasi 3. Maya or Haridwar 4. Mathura(they are in Uttar pradesh)
5.Avanthi(Ujjain in Madhya pradesh) 6. Dwaraka(in Gujarat) 7.Kanchi ( in Tamil
nadu)
The only one in south India is Kanchi. This is what Kanchi maha swami reffered.
The sloka doesnot say you have to die there. Another sloka says : to be born in
Kamalalaya (Thiruvaroor), To live in kanchi , to die in Kasi and to remember
Arunachala(Thiruvannamalai) one gets mukthi. I think that because Thiruvaroor is
the muladhara Kshetra one gets a boost in awakening the kundalini by virtue os
being born there. The periya puranam(of 63 saiva saints) also mentions in one of
the stories that all people of thiruvarur were witnessed as siva ganas by one of
the saint when he wanted to take bath returning home from thiruvarur temple.
Kanchi by virtue of the Bila aakhasa in kamaksi temple whose rays are said to
manifest to the boundaries of kanchi confers a awakening of kundalini. Kasi
being the Agna cakra releases the soul when he dies there, arunachala being fire
reduces to ashes both the virtue and the demerits of the person remembering and
confers mukthi.
K Ramesh


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