Category: South India
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Jalari Lakshmi Narasimha Temple: Quaint Temple Seen from the Adiyogi, Chikkaballapur
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Nestled amidst the hills, this temple gopuram rises above lush green foliage. Creating almost a mystery of the days of old for the spiritual seeker.
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Mahashivratri Pilgrimage, Sadhguru Shiva Yatra: How You Can Join & Other Details
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Sadhguru announced the Shiva Yatra a few years back. He basically asked devotees to walk, cycle or come by bullock cart for the Isha Mahashivratri. The Chennai shiva padyatra has been happening every year since past 10 years! And these yatris sure create a inspirational impact! Now many more city folks have joined in! This…
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My First Experience of Sadhguru ShriBrahma Guru Pooja Event at Yelanahalli
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Already for a year or so, I was feeling really connected to Sadhguru ShriBrahma. I saw the documentary, pushed Prem anna to discuss the exact places in detail which helped me write the blog on all His pilgrimage spots and, in general, felt really connected. So, it was wonderful that I arrived in Coimbatore in…
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Famous Temples of Tamil Nadu, My BucketList After Moving To Coimbatore
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I write these bucketlist posts simply to list out the places I want to visit in future. So, I don’t forget them and can plan a trip or detour whenever the opportunity presents itself. When I shifted to Coimbatore, it brought a lot of places very close to me. Ooty is just a few hours…
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My Many Conversations on Perur Temple – Kashi of Tamil Nadu, Western Chidambaram and more
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Roughly 7 km from my rental apartment in Coimbatore’s fun neighbourhood of RS Puram, lies the lovely temple of Perur. I would have passed it by as any other south Indian temple except that people around me keep mentioning this powerful temple. Way back in 2006, when India or the world barely knew about Sadhguru…
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How to Visit Auroville for an Immersive Experience?
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Understanding how to shape an immersive experience when we visit Auroville. Video chats with someone who has been staying there for over 3 months now…
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Sadhguru Sri Brahma Pilgrimage Spots
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Most of us Isha Yoga meditators are always eager to visit Sadhguru SriBrahma spots and usually find them to be palpably powerful. Not surprising given SadhguruJV‘s connection with him. “Sadhguru Sri Brahma is a reminder for me because I am also full of fire, but we always keep it in a controlled flame. We never…
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Dhyanalingam Temple: A Live Guru
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Dhyanalingam temple, one of my most profoundest relationships in life. Written on the 21st year consecration anniversary. This is a silent meditation space located at the isha yoga center on the outskirts of Coimbatore.
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A Cycling Story And Tamil Nadu’s Phonetic Renaming Of Places
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Tamil Nadu recently changed the names of 1018 areas as per their phonetic pronunciations in Tamil (Thamizh?). This phonetic renaming of places reminded me of a related incident that happened a few years back on my first solo cycle tour in India. It was a short tour of two 100+ km rides. Chennai to Kanchipuram,…
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My Tryst With Kartigai Deepam: The Story So Far…..
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In 2016, I went on a crazy solo cycle ride from Chennai to Kanchipuram and the next day to Tiruvannamalai. When I reached Tiruvannamalai, my adventure with Ramana Ashram and Arunachalam began – at least in this physical life. This place resonated deeply within me, so maybe I had past life connections, dunno. Anyway, it…
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Isha Mahashivratri Accommodations: Can I stay in the Coimbatore Isha ashram?
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This blog post has been updated in October 2022 to help people planning early for the 2023 Mahashivratri event. For ticket prices and other such details you can refer to this blog: https://maproute.in/isha-mahashivratri-2023-what-we-know-so-far/ COVID seems to be gone and dusted as of now. Assuming that won’t change. We have a burst of accommodation options near…
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Mahalaya Amavasya @ Devi Temple | Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore
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One Amavasya night, at the Isha Yoga Center, I found out there was a special event taking place. This was the “Mahalaya” Amavasya of which I had never heard before. In general, on all full moon and new moon nights, they have some lovely celebrations. But this one was something different and interesting.
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Coimbatore Diaries: where “culture” still seeps through the city life
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Rangolis are put outside apartment buildings, bungalows and even individual house doors. Daily, after bath by the woman of the house. Or sometimes delegated to the house help, who is also South Indian, and sees value in it. Many will sprinkle the cow-dung mixed yellow (turmeric?) water on the Earth before doing the rangoli.
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A Beautiful Devi Shrine Amidst Chaos, Coimbatore
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As my friend and fellow travel blogger Shrinidhi Hande once said, not all blog posts need to be long. :D Taking this cue, here is a little piece on a beautiful Devi aka Amman shrine situated in the middle of a tri-junction of very chaotic roads near the Town Hall area of Coimbatore. By the…
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8 Spiritual Getaways & Ashrams Near Bangalore
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When you are looking for a spiritual break from the mega city Bengaluru :)
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A Full Moon Night With the Adiyogi [& Pondering on Bharat’s Lunar Culture]
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I had earlier written a post about ways to make your Adiyogi visit really memorable. I love that place. So, you can imagine how excited I would be to spend the entire night out at the Adiyogi! Last year, I was staying at the adjoining Isha Yoga Center during a full moon night, the Sharad…
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Mahavir Jain Temple in Kattumalaiyanur, a Tamil Nadu Village
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In 2018, the Mahavir Janma Kalyanak or the birth anniversary of Mahavir Swami happened on 29th March. I was then in Tiruvannamalai. Typically on these ‘big’ days, I like to visit a Jain temple. So while there are a few Jain temples in Tiruvannamalai city, I thought of going to the one marked as “Mahaveer…
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10 Ways To Make Your Adiyogi Visit More Memorable
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The Adiyogi visit is powerful for many devotees. This post is an attempt to help you make it even better…
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Jain Temples Of Puzhal, Chennai
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Earlier, in April, came the auspicious day of Chaitri Poonam or the Full moon of the Chaitra month for Jains. It is the day the first disciple of Adinath, Pundrik Swami got enlightened. And along with him crores of other swamis. Adinath (or Rushabhnath) is the first Jain tirthankar in this half yuga cycle, so…
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Day to Day Notes with Kalaripayattu in Kozhikode, Kerala
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Here I am in Kozhikode (pronounced Co-Li-co-Day), Kerala for a week of Kalaripayattu. As with Kalari, this is also my first experience with Kerala – I am staying at my teacher’s (respectfully called Gurakkal) homestay, getting vegetarian Malabar food (without onion and garlic) and everyone typically speaks only Malayalam sometimes with a smattering of Hindi…
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Places to Meditate in Salem, Tamil Nadu
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Places to MEDITATE. This is my favourite activity (or rather no-activity ? ;) ). Go somewhere awesome and sit and meditate or cycle. Kind of the same. Haha. And one podcast I heard from Swami Tyagananda of Ramakrishna Chapter in Boston, said that spiritual seekers notice a sense of familiarity when they do their practices…
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Kaup Beach Lighthouse, Konkan Karnataka
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One of my first Lighthouse visits was the Kaup Beach Lighthouse near Udupi in Konkan Karnataka. I took a local bus from Udupi going towards Mangalore and got down at the small town. There was this Mariamma temple opposite the bus stand,
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Unexpectedly Awesome Places in India #2: Mysore Lakes
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It is odd that this blog of mine hardly has anything about Mysore, considering that it was my favourite city to visit for years… so it is only fitting to write about it now in my Unexpectedly Awesome place series. In the first post I wrote about the Western Ghats and here I will write about the…
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Srirangapatna – the Fort Town & Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, Karnataka
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Re-looking at our history is one of the things I love about traveling. So many little nuances of places strike you when you are actually there. Like I may not have imagined the pride of the Hoysala kingdom without going to the Belur & Halebeedu temples. Imagine finding ruins of Kishkindha from Ramayana stories in…
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A Quick Jaunt to Chikmagalur, Coffee Land of Karnataka
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To whomever I mentioned “I went to Chikmagalur”, they all had heard of it before. Could be the Coffee, as Chikamaglur is often known as the Coffee land of Karnataka. My first impressions of this town was – small, quaint and spacious. Broad roads (as per India), small 2-3 story buildings and beyond these buildings I…
