Dear Sarathi To day only i got the mood of recollecting the trip to Theni & other places andto put them in writing.
Friday the 25 th of jan we had boarded Guruvayur Express at 7.45 A.M & reached Dindugal at3p.m&by Mangammal State Transports bus we reached Theni at 5^.30 p.m,got down at Rathnam Nagar stop.There Sangeetha,s father came & picked up us to their house. they gave warm welcome .We took rest .on26.
Mainly we went there for attending the Grahapravesam of four houses including yours.One of isyour fatherinlaw,s,second your B,.in-law,3rd yours & 4th your B,in-laws"b.in-law. THe show was amazing indeed.
Your f-in-laws &b-in-laws Grprs were fixed on sunday 27th of Jan early morning.Before entering the house the Go(cow)puja was done. Main enterence was decorated with a beautiful garland&big colam was put infront of the house.There was abig gathering to attend the function.Then Ganapathi .Navagrha & Lakshmi homam swere performed by authented Vathiars.
Then we had tiffin & coffe. Then we gave gifts with lighted Thitupathi perumal photo to her father &Mahalakshmi photo to her br. Balaji.Rs.500along witha saree& dothi were given to Sang,s parents .we presented rs. 500 to Balaji famiy.
In turn mama presented a saree dothi shirt,&setof dressto Balu.they gave dresses to you & Sangeetha.Balaji seperately gaveus dresses to us,&asilver keychain to Sang. On the whole the function went onwell.
Afterthe function we took breakfast we&Sangeetha's periappa had planned to go to Kuchanur Sani Bhagvan temple &Anaicut Anjaneyar kovil.we had arranged a qualis car & went to Kuchanur & dhartioned Sani Baghvan . He has 3sets of eyes represnting Siva Vishnu &Brahmma & posseses the powers of the three. There we came across R.v. Rajan & Prabha(chitappa& chithi). They said they would come for the Grahapravesm next day. Then we returned to our house & took our lunch & again we had started to Anaicut Anjaneyar koil without taking rest. This koil isinbetween the two riversPeriyaru& vaigai river.It was said that it woudbe inknee levelof water in theraine season. Anjaneyar was very powerful &he was depicted like that oneeye seeing Ayodhya & anothre eye seeing the devote. We had nice dharshan & returned to Theni happly at 7,o,clock in the night .
Next morning on 28 th of Jan. we got ready for the Grahapravesam of our house.We did Go pooja & conducted Ganapathi & Navagraha homam 7 performed house warming ceremony. I maid milk boiling & made aradana to our deities. Sri vatsan,s grahapravesam also went on simultaneously at same time . Bothwere finished at 8o,clock . Then gifts were given receprocately.
Next morning i,s on 29 th we had our coffe & Proceeded to Palani by bus & reached there at 2 o. clock. We stayed there at Hotel Aryas which was nearer to the temple. We had our lunch &went to Palani Andavar temple at the hill by Winch Ticket wasRs. 20 perhead for to & fro.We had good dharshan of the Swami & we prayed for allour welbeing.Wesaw the samathi of sidhar Boghar who only made the Moolavar Palani Murugan Idol using Navapashanas(Nine poisounous materials.30 th morning we vacated hotel Aryas & caught the bus to Madurai & we reached therea t 1o clock & we took a room at Hotel Santhanam .We took rest for some time & we went to Meenakshi Amman temple at 4o clock by hand riksha. We had a good dharshan of Amma at 7 o clock. On the way to our room we had our dinner at Meenak shiBhavan.
Next day morning we went to our kula deivam koil at Gopalasami malai by Taxi. We worshiped the God at the top of the hill & returned back . Inspired by your advise we proceeded to Pillaiarpatti In Sivagangai distct which is one of the famous Vinayagar koil.We got dharshan a t 4,o,clock., then we went to Perumal temple at Thirukoztiyur from which only Acharya Ramanujar spread thethe divya manthram "OM NAMO NARAYANAYA" to allthe people.THe temple premises was very big & awe inspiring. Then we came back to our hotel in the evening. On Feb 1st we took rest at Madurai..We vacated hotel Santhanam at 3o.clock on 2nd of Feb to Madurai station to catch the Pandian Express at 8.30p.m.We reached chennai 6o.clock on 3rd of Feb safely. Thus ended our note worthy Theni Trip.
Nerrated by Amma Jaya 15-2-2006. But belated------ publishing on 13-9-2010. in the bLog.
