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Arunachala

Thiruvanamallai - Mount Arunachala

Thiruvanamallai - Mount Arunachala

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Arunachala - a representation of Shiva

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Another sacred mountain is to be found in Tiruvannamalai, South India. The Hindu sage Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi said that Mt. Arunachala was a remnant of the lost continent of Atlantis. According to the occultist Kenneth Grant, Mt. Arunachala constitutes the most powerful concentration of spiritual energy on this planet. And from the ancient Hindu scripture known as The Skanda Purana we have these verses: "Arunachala is the most sacred holy place of all. It is the heart of the world. Know it to be the secret and sacred heart-center of the God Shiva. Brilliant lights are seen to sail about Arunachala that seem to be under intelligent control. There is supposed to be a city inside of the mountain. It is inhabited by yogic adepts. Upon death if you are not quite high enough to merge with the Supreme Spirit then you might at least go to live inside Arunachala. The adepts from inside Arunachala can change their shape to any human or animal form and travel incognito in the outside world.

A personal experience - author unknown

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I had been reading a lot on  Sri Ramana   Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Vivekananda. A  year ago,   spirutuality was something of an idle curiosity to  me. Then suddenly,   out of the blue, I started diving into it with a  hunger that   surprised myself. I made my first trip (and only  trip so far) to   Tiruvannamalai some months ago, along with a couple  of friends. We   drove down from Bangalore.    As we neared T'Malai, all of us who have been  talking continuously,   fell silent. It was as though the silence really  'descended' on us.   And as the Arunachala Hill came into our view and  the view got   bigger and bigger, the need to talk seemed to have  just dropped away.   And after we drove into the town and settled down at  the Atithi   Ashram, we came out to look at the Holy Hill. It was  around 6.30 in   the evening and the sun had just set. The sky was  faintly alight with   the afterglow of sunset. The Arunachala Hill,  considered to be a   physical and natural manifestation of Lord Shiva,  was silhouetted   against the darkening sky.    I would never forget the feeling I had as we stood  around in an   empty maidan and looked at the Hill! It wasn't just  an insentinent   hill. It was Immobility itself, it was Majesty  itself, it was Silence   itself, It was the Source itself! It was like gazing  at Lord Shiva in   meditation - rock-like and timeless. We just stood  there, our eyes   glued to the hill, with awe and wonder in our  hearts. With peace and   nameless thankfulness flooding our hearts. An  unfogettable experience!    To speak the truth, I have always been a reluctant  pilgrim - I could   never identify or enjoy crowded temples and loud  rituals. I am also   not given to excesive emotionalism and credulity.  But I can also tell   you this: Standing there in that grassy patch, with  evening traffic   noises from the nearby road floating down, and  gazing at that power-  filled sight of the Hill - I feel I came closest to  God, the   unmanifest potential.    PS: There are many other hills around Arunachala,  and geographically,   there is nothing unique about the hill. It is just  like any hill with   scattered boulders and sparse vegitation. But try to  look away and   you will feel the silent power of this spiritual  center! It is like a   silent call to our source!

  

Full moon Girivalam

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Excellent account here....http://richardarunachala.wordpress.com/tag/girivalam/



Lord Dakshinamurthy - the resident of Arunachala

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dakshiNamurthy dhyAna Slokam: The leg pressing over a demon, on the top of which the Embodiment of merits is sitting with one leg folded, the one who teaches difficult words (vedas) with ease, the sages enjoying (the teachings, sitting) on ground, with the (hand) posture of explaining, a fire pot, book and akshamAla in the four hands, Who trembles away my ignorance, to That dakshiNAmUrti (salutations).

purANa of the dakshinamurthy: dakshiNA mUrti: south faced Lord (yOga mUrti)

The four sons, of brahmA, sanaka, sanandana, sanAtana, sanat kumAra did austere tapas and analysis, but they were unclear of the Supreme Truth. They finally decided to come to Lord Shiva to get the knowledge of the Truth. The Lord sat under the banyan tree, and the four sages also sat down around Him. Lord stayed in the yOga posture without saying a single word. The four sages got all their doubts cleared just by that posture. The form in which God appeared as a Supreme Guide is the form of wisdom dakshiNAmUrti.

This explains that the Truth cannot be explained in words and must be experienced. Including the great chinmudra posture, the posture of shrI dhakshiNA mUrti, who is the teacher of all the teachers, indicates a lot of information that needs days to explain. As thirumUlar says, the posture of the guru is a thing to be thought about always. That is the clarity ! (theLivu guruvuru chin^dhiththal thAnE)


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