Fullmoon - Pournami - Girivalam Day
Posted on: 22/Jun/2013 10:04:56 AM
Today, Jun 22, 2013 is Full moon - Girivalam Day, Devotees do Girivalam at Tiruvannamalai, Special poojas will be performed at temple.
Girivalam Timings : Starts at 08:01 PM to 05:30PM of Tomorrow - Sunday, 23 Jun 2013.
Full Moon pulls people and swells the crowd
Earthlings enjoy every full moon night. On every full moon day, the temple wears a festive look and draws devotees from all parts of the land as the nectar of the floral disc attracts bees with an osmotic pull of an astounding force. The full moon not only swells oceans and seas but also the crowd of devotees who throng about the temple. The moon shows its whole disc illuminated and this illumination exerts an influence upon earnest adherents by imperceptible means. the lovely luminous (full) moon brings in the devotees a magical sense of spiritual awakening. A glow with aspirations the adherents find a promise of new life, new spring in the severe summer of the earthly life.
Girivalam
A monthly ritual, a token of devotion working a stage in spiritual developments. The illumination of the entire disc of moon, is a monthly feature devotees drawn from different parts of the land visit the temple and phallic symbol placed in the sanctum, and the mother Goddess `UMA` and dextrally move in a circle in large numbers keeping the hill as the centre covering in a complete round a distance of nearly fifteen kilometers.
Observing on all sides from the ground floor to the heavenly peak the changing moods of the hill.
Worshiping all along the way the hundred and odd lingams the masculine means of majesty, the phallic symbols used extensively in the cult of worship of `Siva` and erected at regular intervals the procreative force (lingam).
How to do Girivalam ?
- Everyone should walk around the hill barefoot.
- Mutter the name "Om Arunachala".
- view the peak of the Arunachala hill during the circumambulation.
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