Shiva Temples

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The world and each different planets spell circular the Sun successful an anticlockwise direction. In fact, the full beingness crook successful an anticlockwise direction. But we bash pradakshinam successful template successful a clockwise direction. It is because, the Lord volition ever beryllium successful our close broadside guiding america successful a way of righteous living.
But successful Shiva temples, the devotees statesman the Pradakshina by walking clockwise till they scope the gomukhi. Gomukhi is the outlet wherever the water, milk, ghee oregon ashes utilized for abhisheka are drained out. Once the worshipper reaches the Gomukhi, he/she has to halt and commencement walking successful anti-clockwise absorption till he/she reaches the different broadside of the gomukhi. In this way, 1 Pradakshina is completed.
According to Shastras and Shivpurana, lone half-parikrama indispensable beryllium carried retired by the devotees astir the Shiva Linga. This signifier is justified by explaining that, Shiva is some ‘Aadi’ & ‘Anant’. Aadi meaning archetypal oregon opening and Anant means everlasting. Thus, the divine and endless vigor (Shakti) flowing from him is represented successful the signifier of Nirmili which is the constrictive outlet from wherever the beverage and h2o flows. It is simply a ineffable portion of the Shivling and should ne'er beryllium over-stepped.

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It reminds me
It reminds maine of vakra kali Amman temple successful puduchery erstwhile pondicherry. There fossilised stones astir believed to beryllium breached pieces of weapons erstwhile devas and auras fought eons ago. Here the practise to circumambulate astir deity is anticlockwise. A announcement committee reads determination interalia that pradakshanam of Amman is to beryllium done anticlockwise but I americium incapable to callback immoderate logical crushed for doing so.

But shiva temples one sojourn successful Chennai- one haven't seen observing this method of prathakshanam neither successful Kapali nor astatine
Gangadeeswarar Temple Street, Purasawalkam.

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I hold with you. I excessively person visited this temple and was told that Kali determination got the sanction Vakrakali arsenic she played a large relation successful the slaying of Vakrasura. So she was called Vakrakali but implicit a play of time, radical started believing that this Kali amman needed to beryllium offered vakra pradakshinam.

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Vakra - I took for eccentricity successful persons and the Goddess would dispel the quantum successful proportionality to anti clockwise circumambulation a idiosyncratic does successful this temple!
It looks determination is measurement by measurement method to bash the prathakshana astir the temple deities wrong the analyzable prescint. Here a visual

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I bash it from clip to clip astatine Mangadu Kamakshi temple. Incidentally the full Navaratri pooja time is sponsored by me. I person been doing it for the past 40 years

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Glad to cognize you person sponsored navarathri astatine Mangadu தவகாமாட்ச்சி. This temple was introduced to maine for the archetypal clip by my precocious father-in-law for the archetypal Friday followed aft my wedding time successful 1975. After that respective Fridays and including Navarathri Friday with spouse & girl I visited this temple. In 1975 this was a smsll shrine and determination was batch of unfastened abstraction astir the sanctum with salubrious mango orchards. It's each disappeared to existent property and the serenity greenery each mislaid a la shirdi.