Tirupati Balaji Darshan

chits007

Finally I booked Train and Accomodation..
All set ..only darshan ticket is left , which as you have suggest I will book upon arrival.

Is their any time limit after purchasing of Darshan of ticket within which we have to enter the darshan compound or have darshan ??

Wont their be long Q for buying 200 Rs ticket/ I am going on thrusday (not a weekend)..

asha210

Can someone give me some lowdown about Tirupati??

What temple is it (parvati?? Laxmi?)
How far back in time does this temple go??
Does the place itself have any significance in Hindu scripture - or example Nasik is sacred to Hindus because one of the four drops of nectar fell there. Gangasagar in West bengal is sacred because thats where the ganges meets the sea.

chits007

will answer all of them..

avi.uvce

hi chits.. ..
they say // only elected people can enter the parliament... like wise only selected people can enter the gods parliament..//
yu are now ready to pack yur bags to tirupati...

there will be a "q" for either 50 or 200 darshan..
it takes from 20 mins to 2-3 hrs..depending on the season..


but since yu have planned on thusday.. there will be less people for darshan... since its mid of the week..

yu can enter the temple premises for darshan in +/- 1 hour to the darshan timing on yur token...

yu can take the darshan token form "srinivasa mantapam" which is about 10 mins walk from railway station.. in tirupati .

tokens are issued... from 6.00 am onwards..
please confirm the line for which yu should stand for tokens
since there will be three line 50 , 200 and free darshan.. yu can stand in wrong line due to confusion.. .

are yu planning to trek.. ?


om namo venkateshaya..

delhiwala

None ! It's Vishnu Temple, Husband of Lakshmi.

Very Ancient. Finds mention in some very old Tamil Literature and Puaranas also.

The legend has it that Lord Vishnu in the boar form and in the form of Srinivasa manifested himself in Tirumalai. It is believed that Lord Brahma and others worship Lord Vishnu here and to facilitate their worship, all articles of worship are left open in the sanctum at when the temple is closed at night.

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asha210

I searched the wiki page. I want evidence that it finds mention in classical hindu/sanskrit scripture. So far i know, nasik is the southern most part of india which has any significance in hinduism.

asha210

If it is a Vishnu temple why is is called by its present name?

asha210

There is one question that even wiki may not be able to answer - why put a entry fee on a temple?? In no other part of india is there a fee for a temple. no other religion (christian, buddhist, islam, jewish) has a fee for entering or for "viewing".

delhiwala

Tirupati means - Husband of Lakshmi.......

And wiki is no final authority on all subjects ? May I ask why do you need this info ?

asha210

I want to know how one name can get metamorphosed into another?? Afterall such a thing has never happened - the kashi viswanath temple is not called the viswamitra temple or any other. So how come a vishnu temple is called thirupati. the suffix "pati" has a meaning in sanskrit - it means husband. Thiru is not a sanskrit word, nor does it have a sanskrit work root.

as for why they ask money to let people have a look - thats inexplicable. its the commodification of religion.

delhiwala

Why Not ???

Murugan is a deity known as Kartikeya in North India..............

Regarding money for Darshans....I do not know... certainly not an ancient system....

But devotees have no problem.....otherwise they wouldn't have made it most visited temple.....

asha210

Kartik?? Son of Durga??

There is no deity called Kartikeya.

There certainly is NO mention of anyone called Murugan in all sanskrit literature/scripture.


I suspect when hinduism was introduced in dravidian lands by brahmins who migrated south (and today are the tam-brams of tamil nadu), the local population started accepting hindu gods like Vishnu and Kartk but with their own names, like thiru, Venkat and murugan.

delhiwala

Oh ! Another theory !!! We already have too many to deal with. Or is it an old one ????

What about Shiva ?

asha210

Not theory.

Its plain truth that all hindu scripture was written in sanskrit. vedas, upanishads, sutras, epics et al.
That the sanskrit speaking peoples were located north of the vindiyas and between the Sindhu (indus) and himalayas.
That dravidians were not hindu originally - they only became after brahmins emigrated to tamil nadu.
Thats why the festivals and deity names and customs of dravidians are so different from indians who speak daughter languages of sanskrit.
Dravidians themselves know and realise this very well. that is why the anti brahminism in tamil nadu, thats why their political parties idolize Ravana (ranava worshipping hindu is an oxymoron).

Shiva is one of 3 hindu gods who form the holy trinity of hinduism. The brahmins who first went to dravidian lands were Shivaites as opposed to Vaishnavites, hence the preponderance of Shivite hindus in dravidian lands.

delhiwala

Ohhh !

You already know all ?

So first shaivaite Brahmin went and then Vaishanvites ? Nice theory ? No evidence......

Today there is Antibrahaminism in all India ? Why ?

What about the Samskars like Upnayan and others ? Why southerners accepted all of them too ?

And Wasn't Ravana a Brahmin himself ? A Mahapandit ?