Category: South India
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A Full Moon Night With the Adiyogi [& Pondering on Bharat’s Lunar Culture]
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
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
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
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
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
Places to MEDITATE. This is my favourite activity (or rather no-activity ? đ ). 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
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
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
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
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…