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Badrinath Temple:The Badrinath Temple is devoted to Vishnu (Preserver in the Hindu Trinity of Creator-Preserver-Destroyer). The presiding deity of the hindu temple is Badrinath temple (another form of Vishnu), also know as Badri Vishal or Badrinarayan. Shankaracharya is supposed to contain installed the god within the holy place after it was thrown into the Narada Kunda (a very hot water spring near the Badrinath temple) in the days of Buddhist ascendancy.

Badrinath temple is depicted sitting in the padmasana (‘lotus position’), in which the feet are located on opposite thighs. He is bordered by a host of gods.

The most important ones amongst these are Kubera, the God of riches, and Ganesha, the God of knowledge and Prosperity.

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Inside the Badrinath temple complex is another shrine dedicated to Laksmi, the Goddess of Fortune. This holy place is located to the left of the main temple building. The front section is painted in red. Outside the exit door of the Badrinath Temple is the seating place of Shankaracharya, who meditated here. The Badrinath Temple remains closed during winter. 

 

Hindu God Brahma - The Creator

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About Lord Brahma - The Generator

Hindu God Brahma is the Generator or creator of the whole universe and first member of Hindu Trinity or Brahmanical triad, he includes second Lord Vishnu-the preserver and third Lord Shiva-the destroyer.

Lord Brahma is said to be the son of Brahman-the supreme energy of male and Prakrti (Maya)-energy of female.

Creation or Birth of Lord Brahmaji

God Brahma is the God of creation and referred to in many texts as self born- Swayambhu or unborn- aja. He is not created by anyone as he is self existent and the first cause of all and existing by his own intrinsically powers.

God Brahmaji is considered as the infinite and the source of all space, causation, time, forms and names, has many instructive and interesting designations. Lord Brahma is the first person who self born and is referred as uncreated creator- Swayambhu and is the single letter- eka aksharam "AUM", theologically.

Philosophically, Lord Brahma is also considered as the first demonstration of one’s cosmos or creation “ahankara” and cosmologically he is the golden embryo-hiranya garbha, the ball of fire from which the whole universe expands. All beings are his progeny as Lord Brahma is the Prajapati.

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Hindu God Brahmaji is,
Pitamaha --  Patriarch
Vidhi -- Coordinator
Lokesha -- Master of the universe
Dhatru -- Sustainer
Viswakarma -- Architect of the world

The names of Lord Brahma

According to Mythology, Bhagwan Brahma is described as springing from the lotus (Kamala) flower that is grown from the navel (nabhi) of Lord Vishnu. That’s the reason that God Brahma is also well-known as Nabhija - navel born.

Hindu God Brahma has got the other name as Kanja - water born and the legend according to Purana is there behind this name. It is said that he was born in water. That seed was turned into the golden egg and later into the entire Universe of Lord Brahma.

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Goddess Saraswati-the goddess of learning, is his consort who manifested out of him and all beings of the world resulted from their union.

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AMARNATH is one of the major and most popular pilgrim places of HINDUS. It is a tallest and most adventures place covered by the green lust and snow. There is a temple of HINDU lord named SHIVA. And the attracting point of the temple is that the “SHIVA LING” is made itself and produced by snow naturally. It is located in the JAMMU AND KASHMIR state of INDIA. The place is also known as AMARNATH CAVES which is said to be 5000 years old.



The SHIVA LING lies into the main cave of AMARNATH which waxes during May to August and wanes thereafter. According to some said, this lingam of ice grow and shrink with the phases of the moon when it reaches the maximum height during the summer festival. According to HINDU mythology AMARNATH is the cave where lord SHIVE explained the secret of life and eternity to his divine consort PARVATI. Two other formations or lingam around the SHIVA LINGAM represents PARVATI and GANESH whom are wife and son of lord SHIVA.


There was a chronicle named RAJAVALIPTAKA which was started by PRAJAVBHATTA and completed by SUKHA, there is a cleared and detailed reference to the pilgrimage to the scared site (v.841, vv. 847-849). According to the references, in a reply to AKBAR’s query about KASHMIR YUSUF KHAN whom was the MUGHAL GOVERNOR of Kashmir at that time, described the AMARNATH YATRA in full detail. SANTBETRA AWAMI RAMANANDJI MAHARAJ was a great devotee of lord SHIVA used to go AMARNATH YATRA wearing the shorts (called “CHADDI” in INDIA). It is also said that he used to travel on the tigers too (SHER KI SAWARI).His native place was BEHTRA in POK named SANTBETRA ASHOKA.



TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES IN AMARNATH:


The famous HINDU pilgrim place AMARNATH is at greater heights on HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN REINGE. Because of the heighted location, the road transportation facilities are “NOT-BAD”, and daily bus transport facilities are also available for tourists.

There is a helicopter transport facilities too. The helicopter facilities are providing the journey from SRI-NAGAR airport to BALTAL. There is the AMARNATH SHRINE BOARD which provides the huts to live for the tourists. Dinner and Prasad meets at YAATRA LANGARS. The helipad is just in the walking distance from the huts.

Baba AMARNATH is one of the toughest pilgrims in INDIA. But beside that the number of devotees increases in LAKHS and LAKHS to this holy place of AMARNATH. Adding more there are three routes that take the tourists to this holy place of AMARNATH out of which two are from roadways and other one is by airways, by helicopter.


1. JAMMU-PAHALGAM-AMARNATH CAVE:


JAMMU to PAHALGAM is about 315 km that can be travelled by the conveyance of Taxi and Buses. The government has provided the facilities of running Taxies and Buses from RAGHUNATH bazaar early in the morning but the tourists can also travel to JAMMU by air and then go for PAHALGAM. Whole this journey starts with the first route of PAHALGAM located at a distance of 96 km from SRINAGAR on the banks of LIDDER RIVER surrounded by natural beauty of LANDSCAPES.



2. JAMMU-BALTAL-AMARNATH:


This another one route trek to AMARNATH from JAMMU with a total distance of 440 km. This route can be experienced as the heaven of JAMMU-KASHMIR, paradise on earth while passing through the stepped mountains and beautiful valleys which makes the journey memorable. The places covered in journey are, UDHAMPUR-KUD-PATNI TOP-RAMBAN-BANIHAL-KAZI GUND-ANANTNAG-SRINAGAR-SONAMARG-BALTAL. The road width and driving comfort is not as good as compare to PHALGAM route.


AMARNATH CAVE:

RIGVEDA evokes his presence in its Hymns, the most scared and the most ancient book of INDIA. The VEDIC MYTHS, RITUALS, and even ASTRONOMY testify the existence of this cave. LORD SHIVA, the destroyer and mendicant is hard to define. The legend behind the cave is that the lord SHIVA once explained the secret of creation to DEVI PARVATI and unknown to them the pair of mating doves eavesdropped on this conversation and learned the secret. This pair of doves reborn again and again and have made their eternal adobe.

According to ancient tale, there was a MUSLIM shepherd named BUTTA, a sack of coal by SADHU. He discovered that the sack contains the gold. BUTTA MALIK overjoyed and rushed back to SADHU to thank him. But on the spot where they mate was discovered by him as a cave and the place became the TIRTH of worship for believers of pilgrim.  

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INDIAN HINDU TEMPLE - CHOTILA PHOTO

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CHOTILA is a worship place of HINDU religion in SURENDRANAGAR district located near RAJKOT. According to a legend, JAGASIO PARMAR of nearby town MULI was murdered by the KATHIS of KACHAR KUMAN and VALA clans. These KATHIS took possession of town and divided it into four parts which is called “CHAR TILAS” in GUJARATI. And this way the town came to be known as CHOTILA.

There is a temple of HINDU god CHAMUNDA on the mountain hill in CHOTILA. Word CHAMUNDA means CHAMUNDA MATA or RANN-CHANDI (WARRIOR). MAA CHAMUNDA is another form of DURGA. She is also known as CHANDI-CHAMUNDA. Her vehicle is LOIN. She had killed the demons named CHANDA and MUNDA, and this way the other form of MATA DURGA named by CHAMUNDA (Merging the name of two demons) by lord BRAHMMA.


History :

The area is called PANCHAL historically. MATA CHAMUNDA is one of the 64th avatars of SHAKTI. She is the KULDEVI of many HINDUS. Earlier CHOTILA was princely state of KACHAR dynasty. It was having area of 18 sq. km. CHOTILA is also the birthplace of famous GUJARATI poet ZAVERCHAND MEGHANI.



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CHOTILA is a small town having population of around 20, 000 people. It is a NAGARPALIKA town. CHOTILA is at the top of hill which has around 366 steps. CHOTILA is located on the RAJKOT-AHEMEDABAD national highway no. 8A. It is around 170 km. from AHEMEDABAD and 60 km from RAJKOT. Compare to the sea level height CHOTILA is the tallest point in SAURASHTRA region. The height of the hill is 1,173 ft.



Chotila Chamunda Temple Legend :


The story behind a temple is when Demons CHANDA and MUNDA came to conquer Devi MAHAKALI and in the fight that ensues, she presented the dead heads of demons among DEVI AMBIKA who replied that you would be worshiped as CHAMUNDA DEVI. There are some stoned steps on the top of the hill. These were not covered by the shade before. However, all the steps are shaded well in the comfort of tourists. There is high amount of tourist rush into the temple in the time of festival NAVARATRI. There is a big market for tourists on the downside around mountain where tourists can look for PRASHAD and audio and video CDs, toys, Bengals etc. There some thousands of shops held on when NAVARATRI festival is celebrated in CHOTILA. At NAVARATRI, there is a big HAVAN takes place in the top of CHOTILA. As per local says, everybody after the evening AARTI comes down from hill and nobody stays there what CHAMUNDA MATAJI said. People also says that there is a lion on the hill of CHOTILA.

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AMBAJI is the holy place of HINDUS. As per HINDU mythology there is a temple of HINDU goddess name AMBE MATA. In HINDU religion the mother is called “MATA”. So the name AMBE MATA means the mother of HINDUS. It is a major SHAKTIPEETH of INDIA.

AMBAJI is located at a distance round about 65 km from PALANPUR district of GUJARAT. It is 45 km far from the famous hill station MOUNT ABU and 20 km far from the ABU ROAD on the GUJARAT-RAJASTHAN border.

The temple is named by ARASURI AMBAJI, from the reference of SHASHTRAS and the ancient says AMBE MATA killed the giant and devil ARASUR. So this way the named became ARASURI AMBAJI. There is no image or statue of goddess into the temple but the “SHREE VISA YANTRAM” is worshiped as the main deity. The YANTRAM is non watchable from the naked eye. The photography of the YANTRAM and inside of temple parts are totally prohibited.

The ancient and the original one seat of AMBE MATA is on the GABBAR mountain. The temple is at the top of hill. There is large numbers of people rush in the temple on the occasion of PURNIMA days. On the full moon day called BHADARVI PURNIMA, the MELA (fair) is held on AMBAJI. Lot of people from all over the country comes here by walking from their native just for their obeisance to MAA AMBE in JULY. The whole temple is lighted up on the occasion of major HINDU festival DIWALI.

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The famous mountain GABBAR located at the border of Gujarat is just 5 km away from AMBAJI TEMPLE. There is an origin of VEDIC VIRGIN RIVER “SARASWATI” on the hills of ARASUR in forest. The location is at the altitude of 480 m and 1600 ft. high from sea level having 5 square mile area which contains 51 ancient PAURANIK SHAKTIPITHS. As written by RATANJI.M.DESAI, AMBAJI is the centre of cosmic power of INDIA where the heart of the dead body of DEVI SATI fell at the top of holy hill of GABBAR as per the legend narrated in the “TANTRA CHUDAMANI”.

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Temple of Ambaji History : 


AMBAJI-the origin of the cosmic power of the universe is one of the 51 ancient SHAKTIPEETHS of INDIA. For the significant places to pilgrimage for the worship of “SHAKTI” there are 12 SHAKTIPEETHS TIRTHS in INDIA. The list of the 12 SHAKTIPEETH is as followed:

• MAA BHAGWATI MAHAKALI MAHASHAKTIPEETH (UJJAIN)
• MA KAMAKSHI (KANCHIPURAM)
• MATA BRAMRAMBA( SHRI-SHAILAM)
• SHRI KUMARIKA (KANYAKUMARI)
• MATA AMBAJI (PALANPUR)
• MATA MAHALAXMI DEVI (KOLAHAPUR)
• DEVI LALITA (PRAYAG)
• VINDHYA-VASINI (VINDHYA)
• VISHALAKSHI (VARANASI)
• MANGLAVATI (GAYA)
• SUNDARI (BENGAL)
• GUHYESHWARI (NEPAL)

The surprising and attractive thing about this point is there are no images or statue in these 12 temples like SRI- ARASURI AMBAJI but there is a simple cave called GOKH in the inner wall. The SHAKTI VISA SHREE-YANTRAM is gold plated and convex shaped in back where 51 BIJ letters are written. All the SHAKTIPEETHS has the SHREE SHAKTI VISA YANTRAM like AMBAJI. The YANTRAMS are opened for devotion but not for photography, the surprising point about the YANTARAM is they are INVISIBLE and no one can capture a photograph it till this day.

The GABBAR has approximately 999 steps to go up from Westside to the temple. There is a holy lamp among the SHREE VISA YANTRA into the temple which is constantly burning. There are some beautiful sightseeing places on GABBAR including sunset point, cave and swings of MATAJI. The travelling through ropeway is such a great.

AMBAJI is the major SHAKTIPEETHS of AMBE MATA situated in the BANASKATHA district of Gujarat State. Millions of devotees visit the temple every year. AMBAJI temple has a golden YANTRAM with 51 chants. A triangular YANTRAM, inscribed with figures and the syllable SHREE in the center, represents the deity. There is no image of MAA AMBE in temple, people worship the YANTRAM.

The temple is open from 7 AM to 4:0 PM and 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM. A large number of devotees visit the temple every year on PURNIMA days. Every PURNIMA devotees reaches AMBAJI to worship AMBE MAA. BHADRAPADI PURNIMA is the main festival when a big fair of devotees comes at AMBAJI.
AMBAJI town is also known for mines of fine quality of marble and granites located in the area. Mt. Abu is just 45 km away from AMBAJI.

Transportation And Tourism :

The nearest airport for reaching AMBAJI is AHEMEDABAD, Which is 200km away from AMBAJI. The nearest railway station is ABU ROAD which is 22km away from it. The government transport buses and private luxury coaches are available to reach AMBAJI from various cities GUJARAT.
The hotel facilities and other basic requirements of tourists are available in AMBAJI. As the number of people takes place every year in AMBAJI, There are large numbers of hotels in there.

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Yamunotri temple is the early point of the holy River Yamuna. It is the western mainly shrine in the Garhwal range of the Himalayas, balanced on the borders of Bandar-Poonch Parvat. The major attraction at Yamunotri is the temple devoted to Goddess Yamuna and the holy thermal Sulphur springs, about 7 km away at Jankichatti. The real foundation of the river is a frozen lake (Sapt Rishi Kund) and glacier called the Champasar Glacier, located on the Kalind Mountain, about a kilometer from the Sulphur springs. While the way to the glacier is arduous and approximately distant for common pilgrims, they offer ‘Puja’ in the temple itself.Yamunotri temple Location

The famous Yamunotri temple is situated in the Uttarakashi district of Uttarakhand. The Yamunotri temple is situated about ten kms trek from the town of Hanuman Chatti, with a break in Janaki Chatti.

Best Time to Visit

The Yamunotri temple opens on the positive day of the Akshya Tritiya, which typically falls throughout the last week of April or first week of May. The temple and the town close down due to very heavy snowfall on the blessed day of Diwali (in mid October or first week of November). The area around Yamunotri remains cool even throughout summers. The winters are snow-bound and temperatures fall below 0º C. One is advised to obtain light or serious woolens depending on the time of visit.

Myths & Legends

According to a myth, Sage Asit Muni had his hermitage here. During his life he bathed daily in the waters of both Ganga and Yamuna. slowly, unable to go to Gangotri throughout his old age, a stream of Ganga appeared opposite Yamunotri for him. Another legend says that Yamuna’s supposed frivolousness was due to her mother’s inability to look at Yamuna’s father, Lord Surya, in the eye due to his great radiance. It is moreover said that if one bathes in the waters of Yamuna, the person ceases to die a painful death since Yamuna is the sister of Yama, the lord of death.

How To Reach

Yamunotri temple can be reached on foot or on a pony from Janaki Chatti. It takes about 2 1/2 hours to arrive at Yamunotri on a pony. Throughout bad weather, buses usually don't reach Janaki Chatti and one has to get down at a place called Sayana Chatti. From Sayana Chatti, usual Jeep services to Janaki Chatti are available a reasonable prices.

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