SREE PRASANNA VENKATESWARAR, GUNASEELAM
After the visits to the temples at Thottiam and Namakkal on 09 08 2016, I had lunch at Namakkal and on returning back to Tiruchy by bus, I got down at Gunaseelam to have darshan of Sree Prasanna venkateswara Perumal. I reached at 04.10pm Gunaseelam and the temple normally opens at 04.30 pm. Flowers and Thulasi vendors just opened their shops. There is no separate sannidhi for thayar here.
The temple history is based on the Gunaseela Maharishi's darshan at Tirupathi and as he was unable to part the company of the lord, placed before the lord his request for the lord to accompany him to his Ashram at Gunaseelam. Rishi Thalpier was the Guru of Sree Gunaseelar and they worshipped at Tirupathi after their pilgrimage to Kasi. Thalpier's Ashram was at Neelivanam (நீலிவனம் - Thirupaingneeli) and Gunaseelar was serving with utmost devotion, as a disciple when he was there. The lord at Tirupathi advised him to get the necessary guidelines from his Guru, as he cannot leave Tirupathi until Kalpam is over as per the sankalpam. Gunaseelar, as advised by his Guru was in penance on the Lord to bring him and the Guru had told him that the Lord would come and bless him at his ashram on the Northern bank of River Cauvery. The penance and thava included standing on Panchagni during summer, and with wet clothes in winter and stood in water during rainy season. The hardships undergone by him in his penance made the Devas led by Indra to go and see Brahama. Brahma told them that Sree Gunaseelar was in penance to get none other than the Vaikunda Vasudevan to get daily darshan and advised them not to interfere in his thavam. Vaikunda Vasudevan did come and settled on the river bank of Gunaseelam and gave darshan to Gunaseelar in his Ashrama. As the same was known already, Brahma, Saraswathi, Siva, Parvathi, the devas, Naradha, Sanakathi rishis and Thalpier and his disciples assembled there. It is said that it happened on Emperuman's Avirbava Kala Kurthayuga, Purattasi Saturday afternoon in Dhanur Lagna. When the Lord asked him whether he wanted any boon, Gunaseelar replied that he did not want any boon but requested the Lord to be in the Ashram until Kalpam to give darshan to devotees and bless them. Gunaseelar was performing the poojas as had been advised by his Guru in Krutha, Thretha and Dwabhara yugas and during Dwabhara yuga his Guru asked him to accompany him to Naimisaranya and with the blessings of the Lord did so, though he was reluctant to part the lord. He had asked one of his disciples to carry out the daily rituals. As the area was filled with wild beasts and also time to time there were floods in Cauvery, the disciple left the place without attending to the Lord. An anthill was formed completely covering the Lord which was later found by the King Gnanavarman who was ruling from Nisulapuri (present Woraiyur in Tiruchirapalli). The villagers of Bhadrachakram (nearer to Gunaseelam) informed the King that the Milk from the vessels they were bringing to the palace go missing and the Lord from the anthill told an aged yadava that he was there and the same be brought to the notice of the King. As the King wanted to find out and proceeded to Bhadrachakram, as he neared the anthill, a Brahmana appeared before him and told the King that the anthill be washed with Milk and this would be beneficial to him. The King washed the anthill with 6000 pots of milk and found the lord Prasanna Venkateswarar and prostrated before the lord and the lord appeared before the King and told that he would fulfill the wishes of Gunaseelar and bless the devotees until kalpam and also told he desired the Pooja be performed according to Sree Vaikasana Sastra. The King built the temple there. Six kala poojas are performed according the Sree Vaikasana Sastra here.
Temple seen from a distance
Contact:
Sri K.R.Pichumani Iyengar,
Heridetary Executive Trustee,
Sri Prasanna Venkatachalapathy Swamy Temple,
Gunaseelam,Trichy.
Tamil Nadu PIN 621604.PHONE : 91-04326-275310
email : info@gunaseelamtemple.com,
gunaseelamtemple@gmail.com
Gunaseelam is 21 kms from Tiruchy and all buses going to Namakkal stop as also there are town buses from Chathiram Bus Stand.
After the visits to the temples at Thottiam and Namakkal on 09 08 2016, I had lunch at Namakkal and on returning back to Tiruchy by bus, I got down at Gunaseelam to have darshan of Sree Prasanna venkateswara Perumal. I reached at 04.10pm Gunaseelam and the temple normally opens at 04.30 pm. Flowers and Thulasi vendors just opened their shops. There is no separate sannidhi for thayar here.
The temple history is based on the Gunaseela Maharishi's darshan at Tirupathi and as he was unable to part the company of the lord, placed before the lord his request for the lord to accompany him to his Ashram at Gunaseelam. Rishi Thalpier was the Guru of Sree Gunaseelar and they worshipped at Tirupathi after their pilgrimage to Kasi. Thalpier's Ashram was at Neelivanam (நீலிவனம் - Thirupaingneeli) and Gunaseelar was serving with utmost devotion, as a disciple when he was there. The lord at Tirupathi advised him to get the necessary guidelines from his Guru, as he cannot leave Tirupathi until Kalpam is over as per the sankalpam. Gunaseelar, as advised by his Guru was in penance on the Lord to bring him and the Guru had told him that the Lord would come and bless him at his ashram on the Northern bank of River Cauvery. The penance and thava included standing on Panchagni during summer, and with wet clothes in winter and stood in water during rainy season. The hardships undergone by him in his penance made the Devas led by Indra to go and see Brahama. Brahma told them that Sree Gunaseelar was in penance to get none other than the Vaikunda Vasudevan to get daily darshan and advised them not to interfere in his thavam. Vaikunda Vasudevan did come and settled on the river bank of Gunaseelam and gave darshan to Gunaseelar in his Ashrama. As the same was known already, Brahma, Saraswathi, Siva, Parvathi, the devas, Naradha, Sanakathi rishis and Thalpier and his disciples assembled there. It is said that it happened on Emperuman's Avirbava Kala Kurthayuga, Purattasi Saturday afternoon in Dhanur Lagna. When the Lord asked him whether he wanted any boon, Gunaseelar replied that he did not want any boon but requested the Lord to be in the Ashram until Kalpam to give darshan to devotees and bless them. Gunaseelar was performing the poojas as had been advised by his Guru in Krutha, Thretha and Dwabhara yugas and during Dwabhara yuga his Guru asked him to accompany him to Naimisaranya and with the blessings of the Lord did so, though he was reluctant to part the lord. He had asked one of his disciples to carry out the daily rituals. As the area was filled with wild beasts and also time to time there were floods in Cauvery, the disciple left the place without attending to the Lord. An anthill was formed completely covering the Lord which was later found by the King Gnanavarman who was ruling from Nisulapuri (present Woraiyur in Tiruchirapalli). The villagers of Bhadrachakram (nearer to Gunaseelam) informed the King that the Milk from the vessels they were bringing to the palace go missing and the Lord from the anthill told an aged yadava that he was there and the same be brought to the notice of the King. As the King wanted to find out and proceeded to Bhadrachakram, as he neared the anthill, a Brahmana appeared before him and told the King that the anthill be washed with Milk and this would be beneficial to him. The King washed the anthill with 6000 pots of milk and found the lord Prasanna Venkateswarar and prostrated before the lord and the lord appeared before the King and told that he would fulfill the wishes of Gunaseelar and bless the devotees until kalpam and also told he desired the Pooja be performed according to Sree Vaikasana Sastra. The King built the temple there. Six kala poojas are performed according the Sree Vaikasana Sastra here.
Temple seen from a distance
Contact:
Sri K.R.Pichumani Iyengar,
Heridetary Executive Trustee,
Sri Prasanna Venkatachalapathy Swamy Temple,
Gunaseelam,Trichy.
Tamil Nadu PIN 621604.PHONE : 91-04326-275310
email : info@gunaseelamtemple.com,
gunaseelamtemple@gmail.com
Gunaseelam is 21 kms from Tiruchy and all buses going to Namakkal stop as also there are town buses from Chathiram Bus Stand.
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