Visit to Ganagapur Temple

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Dear Datta Bhaktas,

 

Sai Ram. Jai Guru Datta. I too visited Ganagapur on the same day,

Saturday and had a rather different experience whcih is probably

worth sharing.

 

I was in a group of 5 dattta devotees and we reached Ganagapur on the

night of Friday, the 27th. We stayed in Sri Vikhe Patil Bhakta Nivas

and were blessed to listen to Sri Lalitha Sahasranama Stotra Akhanda

Parayana that was going on in the same place. On 28th morning, we

first took bath in the room and went to the temple and we could get

the famed Kesar Lepan Puja done to the Nirguna Padukas of Swamy and

we had to stand in the Archana Line for about 2 hours only. By 10:30

or so, we were out of the temple and after some light refreshments,

went to the Sangam. Yes, the river is shallow but one can go a little

more inside and almost waist deep water is available. I performed

tila tarpanam and pinda pradanam with the help of a Telugu Purohit

(there are now quite a few there) and felt very happy.

 

I visited Sangam even in mid summer and while the river is not deep

at that time, it never ran dry in the few years that I have had the

fortune of visiting it. The water is quite clear at that time and

even then there is a fairly good flow.

 

I think the lesson to be learnt is that different devotees get

different experiences, but His grace is there on all of us.

 

Sri Datta Saranam.

 

Swamy

 

 

 

Smarthrugaami-Dattavaibhavam , " P.R.K. Prasad "

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> Smarthrugaami-Dattavibhavam ,

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Dear Datta bhaktas,

> I went to Gangapur on SATURDAY-2nd day of the PUSHKARAS.We had

bath in the Bheema river but the river is very shallow now & the

Amaraja river has dried up.I was told that the authorities have NOT

released water from the KRISHNA river into Bheema river.I suggest all

the datta devotees go to Gangapua as soon as they can before the

Bheema river dries up.

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> I went to the main temple to have darshan of the NIRGUNA

PADUKAS.It was utter confusion for everyone in the milling crowd.I

suggest to all that instead of buying a ticket for the pooja &

standing in that endless queue,you simply stand in the queue for

darshan alone,enter the sanctum sanctorum & have darshan of the

TRIMURTI ROPAAS & then tell the priest that you want to perform AARTI

for the padukas.Then they do this for 251/- & let you have darshan of

the padukas.This is what I did.If you stand in the archana queue,then

it will take take you 6-9 hours.In the darshan alone queue,it takes

less than an hour.

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> I pray that all our group members will get the DARSHAN of the

padukas.

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> HARI OM TAT SAT JAI GURU DATTA

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