He came down to Bangalore via Bombay.Įarly in the morning on, the auspicious Sankranthi day, Sri Tiruchi Swamiji was proceeding to Mysore by a car for a Pada Pooja, along with two of his disciples.
There, during intense meditation, he had a vision of the triple divinities of Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswathi and a bodiless voice (Asarira vani) asked him to go to Karnataka. Before coming down South, Swamiji went to Mount Kailas. The Guru, after initiating him asked him to go south, where, he said there was much good work to be done. His Guru was Sri Sivapuri baba who lived in Kathmandu. Sri Kailash Ashrama Mahasamsthana in Kenchenahalli (now called Sri Rajarajeshwarinagar) was founded by His Holiness Sri Sivaratnapuri Swamiji (popularly known as Sri Tiruchi Swamigal) in 1960. The worship is conducted in the Saivagama tradition, elaborately and meticulously, by competent and well trained priests (deekshitars).br> STORY BEHIND THE TEMPLE :
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In the sanctum sanctorum (garbha griha) can be seen the splendid stone image (six feet in height) of the Divine Mother Sri Jnanakshi Rajarajeshwari, seated on a throne with her right leg folded and placed across the seat, while her left leg is bent at the knee and stretched below to rest on a lotus in full bloom. It is complete with an elevated sanctum (garbha griha), a porch (antarala), an open pillared hall (Mukha Mantapa), a wide circumambulatory path (Pradikshina patha) and an inner courtyard. With its finely carved pillars (Sthambha) and beautifully dressed walls (Bhitti) it presents a charming spectacle.
It is an excellent specimen of Dravidian religious architecture, and is built strictly in accordance with the agama prescriptions. Verily a masterpiece among the recent monuments in the whole of Karnataka. The Temple of Sri Jnanakshi Rajarajeshwari is a magnificent edifice in pure granite. Later, Swamiji built a temple dedicated to Goddess Sri RajaRajeshwari and SRI CHAKRA TEMPLE. Cultural programmes are also held on all the nine days of Navarathri Utsav at the temple. During the annual Brahmarathotsava and the Navarathri festival, the devotees offer special pujas, homas, rathotsavas. However, the main attraction is the six-feet tall, inspring stone image of Divine Mother Sri Raja Rajeshwari, also worshipped as Mother Sri Jnanakshi.ĭevotees from distant places can be seen in long queues at the temple, particularly on Tuesdays and Fridays. The eye-catching temple, built in the Dravidian style of architecture, has five Rajagopuras. Later, Swamiji built a temple dedicated to Goddess Sri Rajarajeshwari Ashram seer had chosen Kenchanahalli for the temple and the ashram, as there are Puranic legends about the place, where Sage Athreya and his devout wife Anusuya are believed to have lived. The same village is now a posh locality, Rajeshwarinagar. In the early 1960’s His Holiness Sri Tiruchi Mahaswamigal had established Kailash Ashram at Kenchenahalli, a remote village close by the Vrushabhavathi river. It is said that in the remote past many devas, rishis, munis, siddhas including deva rishi Narada and others have propitiated the divine mother Sri Rajarajeshwari at this very place and obtained siddhi. The presiding Deity ‘Sri Rajarajeshwari’ is seated on this Shakti Peetha called as Jaya Peetha in the magnificent temple precincts. It is at this place that His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Tiruchi Mahaswamigal established Sri Kailash Ashrama Mahasamsthana and Sri RajaRajeshwari Temple. This Peetha has been called as Jaya Peetha and the presiding Bhairava is Abiru Bhairava. It is said in the ‘Tantra Chudamani’ that this place forms the ‘karnabhaga’ or ‘ear’ of the numerous Shaktipeethas in Bharat. Sri Rajarajeshwari temple is situated in the south-west corner of the region between ‘Cauvery’ and ‘Vrishabhavati’ rivers called earlier as Kanchanagiri later as Kanchanahalli and also as Champakavana. Rajarajeshwari Temple region geographically lies on the east-west meridian of Karnataka and is also called as Kalyananagari.
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