Guest guest Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 YAUM NAMAH SHIVAYAY RESPECTED DEVOTEES SRI VISALAKSHI AMBAL TEMPLE SANNATHI AT KALPOONDI VILLAGE ARNI TALUKTIRUVANNAMALAI DISTRICT IS UNDER RENOVATION. WE REQUEST DEVOTEES TOPARTICIPATE IN THIS 500 YEAR OLD TEMPLE. KINDLY VISIT OUR WEB SITEwww.kalpoonditemple.org <http://www.kalpoonditemple.org> contact e mailkrg858 <krg858 KINDLY FORWARD THIS MESSAGE FORWARD OUR WEB SITE TO ALL YOUR KNOWN PEOPLE AND PARTICIPATE IN THE RENOVATION OF ANCIENT SHIVAN TEMPLE ARULMIGU SRI VISALAKSHMI AMBAL SAMEDARULMIGU SRI VISWANATHEESWARAN TEMPLE The Lord Siva is in different form and different divine name in severalparts of Bharatha Desam Shiva is worshipped as the embodiment of theprimary elements of Wind, Water, Fire, Earth and space in kalahasthi. Jambukeswaram, Arunachalam, Kanchipuram and chidambaram. with above formof elements Llord Shiva also appears as linga form in many places. Outof those places the kasi shethra called as Varanashi is important placeof worship for Hindus. Every one of the Hindus will have liking anddetermination to go to Varanashi and worship Lord Viswanathan in thirelife time. Kalpoondi village is situvated in the banks of river kamandalanatharriver. a beautiful village with aceient heritage. In this villageArulmigu Attankarai Vazhi Amman temple, Sri Kothandaramar temple and SriVisalakshi Ambal Sameda Sri Viswanatheeswaran temples are famlous inArni Taluk. About 500 years ago people from this village have went to kasi andworshipped Lord Viswanathar. They brought a Lingam in the shape of `Salagramam' to this village from Kasi. They installed theLingam with Avudiyar and named as Sri Viswanatheeswarar and Ambal asSri Vislashi Ambal. People from this village and surrounding villagesstarted coming to this shrine and worshipped Lord Siva asViswanatheeswaran and had satisfaction of worshipped lord viswanathar inKasi. Even today it is belived in this district that visiting tokalpoondi Viswanatheeswaran temple is equal to visiting Kasi temple.Once in this village there was heavy rain and the river kamandalanathariver was running full of water and started touching the village. Thetheret of water made the people to pray to Lord Siva for there safty.Within shortwhile the flood started slowdown and people are saved by theLord Viswanatheeswarar and from that this lord Siva is also called as"Vellanthangiswarar" The shrine of lord Dakshinamurthy in thesouth side of temple is in the form of Yoga Dakshinamurthy. Hence thistemple is worshipped as Guru Parikarasthalam.The Saint Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Mahaswamigal hasvisited this village and worshipped lord Sri Visalakshi ambal and SriViswanatheeswarar during his visits to Arni town.-- kalpoondi ranganathan gopalakrishnandevelopment officer, lic of india, chennai 29444272190, 044-23715585web site www.kalpoonditemple.orgvisit link http://kalpoonditemple.blogspot.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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