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Hair Donation At The Tirupati Balaji Temple
It is an age old practice to donate their hair at the temple. To do this people of all ages make their prayers and shave their heads near the temple premises before having a darshan of the Lord. The temple management has built expansive facilities to help the people make their hair donations to the Lord. Padmavathi Travels organizes for best one day package from chennai to tirupati by car
- Some facts about Tirupati Balaji:
- The light of the lamp kept before the idol of the deity never extinguishes. There is no reliable explanation on why this happens but all we that it has been burning for a long time and like an ardent worshipper’s devotion, it will never be extinguished.
- Now this will come across as a surprise especially to those who have visited the temple and have prayed to the idol of Lord Tirupati Balaji. If you observe carefully then you will see that the idol in the shrine is not placed in the centre of the sanctum; it is placed at the right-hand corner of the shrine.
- In the year 2009, the Geographical Indication tag was accorded to the ladoos served as Prashad in the Tirupati Temple. These ladoos have a distinct and unique taste and are available at an affordable cost of 15-20 rupees.
- The shrine was gifted diamonds and gold by the Vijayanagara empire, who himself was a devotee and patron. Over the years, the facilities of the temple as and when different emperors (Pallava and Chola clans) ruled over the place.
- The construction of the first temple at Tirupati is associated with the legend of King Thondaiman. The Tamil ruler, King Thondaiman had a dream of Lord Vishnu and it was then when he decided to get a temple constructed in his name.
- There are multiple legends associated with the moist back of the idol. The back of the idol always remains moist and every morning the priests clean it with a silk cloth.
- The priests at the temple do not throw flowers that are offered to Lord Balaji during the morning puja. These flowers are thrown into the waterfalls that flow behind the rear-side of the idol.
- If you keep your ear close to the idol’s back, you will hear the sound of enormous seas waves.
- All the samagiri or items of offerings that are used during the puja are bought from an undisclosed village. No one really knows from where the flowers, clarified butter, milk, butter-milk, the holy leaves etc. are sourced. This village is far off and has never been visited by any outsider.
- Tirupati Balaji is recorded as one of the richest and most visited temples in India. The temple receives 75,000 to 90,000 pilgrims every day. Along with that, the shrine celebrates some Utsav (festival) almost every day attracting an n number of pilgrims. However, owing to the spread of COVID-19, the shrine has not attracted any pilgrims for the past 2 months as the Darshan have shut down.
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