Agni Theertham is always the place of action. Many of these activities are supposed to be happening at Dhanushkodi, but people for their own reasons. Myself and Viji dipped in the water here also and started walking to the Temple with the kind treatment of Sun God.
The attire in all these activites were full, panch-kachcha veshti for me and madisar for Viji. With this we got into temple for theertha snanam. Except the fifth theertham, which was closed due to some repair work, we had bath in all the other theerthams. How much ever we tell, the experience of having bath in 22 theerthams has to be learnt as an experience than being read or heard...! Ajacent wells providing different chilled water and this being done for yugas is a miracle by itself...!
Once we reached back the hotel and changed our clothes to get ready for srartham. It is important that one does not bathe again after having done the 22 theertha snanam. We should only change the clothes and not have bath again outside these 22 theerthams. We went to Sastrigal home to do the Srartham, which went on very well. After the Brahmins had food and we had ours, some stark reality started haunting us. This was the waiting list of our return tickets. We were still in Waiting List 1 & 2 and we were supposed to start the next day evening.
Shree Swaminatha Sastrigal was positive about this, but when we told this was 2 AC, he was not sure about the possibilities. Overall, our stand was that, we have come in as guests of Ramanatha Swamy and it was upto Him to treat us the best way...! He definitely had surprises for us, when we knew that the ticket never got confirmed till journey the next day...!
(To be continued...!)
1 comment:
Kumar, why haven't u not mentioned about Kanchi Mutt. ( Did I miss to read). Am sure u wud have visited.
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