SRI MUKTHI NAGAKSHETHRA
Dearfriends, Afterwatching in the SUN TV about Mukthi naga kshethra in KENGERY, Bangalore in the Divyadarsanam program, I was very much interested to visit the temple on the sameday itself, since I was in Bangalore. Aninstinct came to my mind to write about the temple immediately after the visitwhich is full filled now. Sincerely, GopalaKrishnan 28-5-2012 Re posted on 14-9-21 after editing forlanguage and grammatical mistake if any 1. Naga worship Nagaworship varies in different states. In Tamilnadu there are a number of puttu kovils.In the idol from it is worshipped at Nagerkovil, Tirunageswaram etc. At Nagerkovilit is the sand coming from the bottom of the idol is given as prasadam. AtThirunageswaram, it is abishekam with milk is very important during rahukalam, wherethe idol changes to blue colour during abhishekam. InKerala instead of puttu it is medium forest is seen at Mannarsala, very small forestand muddy lake area at Ameda etc. In Kerala temple use of turmeric paste andpowder is common with worshiping of Naga idols. Even prasadam sandal paste iscombined with turmeric. Whileworshipping in naga temples very much purity in body and mind is important. It is knownto all. Purity of body for at least 7 days for women is very much specific forsarpabali at Ameda Inall Naga temples, the worship on Aayilyam day is important in all months.Worship is done for sarpa dosha in Naga temples. Some temples like Ameda in Kerala conductSarpa Bali. ( Sraadha to sarpa). Normally people conduct sarpabali on advice bydivine people, astrologers etc. 2. Naga temple at Kengery Ihad no fortune to visit any sarpa templeearlier in Karnataka. So combined with divine thoughts after seeing the TVProgram, my mind was with thoughts how a Naga temple would appear in Karnatakadifferentiating itself . Wecannot compare one naga temple withother. Each has its own uniqueness. One CANNOT EXCEL the other. Each has itsown merits. 2a Swarna Ganapathi ThisMukthi Naga temple is at 18thKilometre in the MYSORE ROUTE from Bangalore city railway station. Just about half a kilometre before a large SWARNA GANAPATHI gives darsan and blesses us.It is a separate temple on the left side while coming from Bangalore. 2b. How to reach the temple Thereis a right turn at the Junction of Rajarajeswari dental college point. We haveto drive for 5 KMs again in the route,where a board would indicate the way totemple again taking a 2nd right turn to reach the temple. Theroad will end up in grassy up, a preferable area of snakes to live,and about one Kilometre to reach thetemple premises. The temple is in a plane open area. There are no compoundwalls, no borders for the Nagaraja temple here. Vehicles can reach somewhatnear the temple. Addressand phone number of the temple I have given in the end. 2c. Darsan timings Similarto Kadampuzha temple in Kerala, thetemple worshipping time is from 7.30 AM to 7.30 PM only. It is continuous here. 3. Other deities enshrined nearby. Inthe complex three more deities are enshrined with separate sanctum. One is Mahaganapathi, anotheris lord Muruga and third is Vana durga. Theorder of worship told is to start with is Maha Ganapathi. The idol of Ganapathiis big. After worshipping Mahaganapathi we are asked to worship FIVE HEADEDNAGA VERY BIG IN SIZE. This naga is to be worshipped before worshiping anothernaga smaller and five headed and called MOOLA STHANAM. This moola sthana naga is the main deity of thetemple. 4. Worship of Moola sthana deity. Theemphasis told in the temple to circumambulation the small sanctum 9 times afterperforming sankalpa by the priest. Fromthe administrative office we can purchase a silver naga idol for Rs 50-00 andhold in the right hand. Thepriest in the temple issue a samkalpa ticket and recites the samkalpa takingour name, star, gothra for well being while we worship the Mukthi naga anddirect us to perform 9 circumambulations around the sanctum keeping Nagaraja inhand and then place in a hundi in thefront with prayers. Itis affirmed we would get blessing ofNagaraja. Yes. Nagaraja is Rahu and Kshipra prasadi to tell in one sentence. Thepriest leisurely collects Rs 11-00 for the samkapla ticket, and includes allthe names told by us. There is no restriction about the number of persons. Even without naga samkalpam can be done andprayers offered. Iam not sure either due to early evening or for any other reason, I could notfind any person distributing any prasadam. Probably it might be a peculiaritywith the temple. 5. Vana durga Somewhatin an angle of 30’ is the vana durga shrine. About 15 feet from it somewhat middle between the temples is the manputtuwhich attracted me very much. There is only one puttu in the premises. 6. Man puttu Itis very surprising in the greenish grass area a medium manputtu appearing as SPRANG UP. Prayers are offered to thismanputtu. 7. Nagaraja and Naga yakshies Asin the Kerala temples there is a separate idol of Nagaraja with two nagayakshisclose to Vanadurga and prayers are offered here also. There is no sanctum for them. 8. Arrangements of naga idols Thereis an existing Nagraja and Nagarani placement in a vertical triangular formnear it in steps which attracts every person. Hundreds of naga idols are systematically arranged in steps in triangularfrom. Allidols are in black granite and oiled and giving a shiny appearance. 9. Tall muruga Finallywe complete the worship before the bigMuruga at a height climbing a separate platform. 10. Beliefs with the temple Inthe Sun TV divya darshanm, many people have told their experiences ofaccomplishing and solving different problems by worshipping in the temple. AllNaga temples are unique and sincere prayers with belief are ALWAYS FULL FILLED. Astrologers suggest in many occasions for Naga worship to the personsapproaching them for various reasons 11. Temple address Ihave visited the temple on Saturday evening. At that time itself there about 10quails type vehicles waiting bringingdevotes . It is best to go by car or taxi/Auto to temple Iam told procedure for worship is -purchasing the naga, offer samkapa with prayer, make nine circumambulations,with prayer holding naga, and put the naga idol in the hundial. Whilereturning after worshiping the temple Iwas telling my wife and daughter and her son who accompanied me, it was a unique divinedarsan some thing peculiar to Karnataka and gave me much mental satisfaction. Iam giving below the address and phone number for the convenience of membersdesiring to visit the temple. Asincere prayer would always be fulfilled in the temple by aspiring devotees. Thename of the temple itself is Mukthi naga kshethra. SRIMUKTHI NAGA KSHETHRA RAMOHALLI BIGBANIAN TREE ROAD KENGERYBANGALORE- 60 Phone080-26713583 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/847375016.4362199.1631612787499%40mail.yahoo.com.
