A Day’s Trip to Ma Native...

A Day’s Trip to Ma Native...

Through this episode of blog, I want to share my joy of visiting to ma native. This post brings to you the temples of Madurai that we visited and my delight of being there.. Here it goes…..

It’s been nearly 15 years since I have been to my native. I was born in Madurai and till 3^rd STD I studied there but I could hardly remember anything. All I could bear in mind is a blur image of our house in Madurai and few of my friends name (though it may sound outlandish)… It was my long time wish to visit to my Native but circumstances did not give way for it till 26^th Jan 2010.

This trip was a well preplanned and it was a day’s spree to visit few temples there at Madurai. I was so excited about the trip. One main reason is becuz am visiting my native after sooo many years and second is that it is a whole family trip such that we would get some time to spend with relatives. Since childhood I have never got a chance to be with them for a whole day.

And alas the day came... I along with 12 of my relations boarded the train on 25^th night and I landed in my native on 26^th Morning... Hurry!!!! We lodged into an inn to get ready to visit the first temple of the day. Kudalagar Temple was the first one we visited. The temple was devoted to Lord Vishnu. I was amazed by the architecture of the temple which is as old as Madurai itself.

Next one we visited was our Pecchiamman Temple. It was the first time that I watched for the full Abhishekam of the Idol. I should admit that I was completely taken away by the holiness of the spirit.

Later that afternoon after our lunch we started to two other temples. First – Pazhamuthirsolai – One of the houses of Lord Muruga. Second - Alagar temple - only on reaching there I learnt about the temple that it is dedicated to a form of Vishnu as the brother of Meenakshi , and the temple participates in the annual marriage rites of Meenakshi at Madurai. It was my cousin, Venkatesh, who was explaining me about all this and I was wondering why I haven’t even heard of these stories in my past. Anyways, I was overwhelmed by the information gathered and also learnt a philosophy that One who really Seeks for the anything with full interest/curiosity is sure to get the benefit of it.

One of the famous temple of south India is Meenkshi Amman Temple at Madurai which we visited the last. The temple was simply awesome with full of sacredness. I must really say that Madurai owes its attraction to this temple.. We were running short of time as our return tickets were booked for the same day’s nite journey… Though this dint in anyway stop us from visiting the places we planned for but I wished if the day could extend for another 24 hrs or so…If time had been there we would have got some more time to spend at each site and had lot more fun too…

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed the trip and can even say this as one of the memorable trips of my life… My joy of visiting my native is unbounded. It was full of pleasure spending a whole day with my cousins Anu, Visalam & Venkatesh along with my uncles’ and aunts’… As the saying goes “All that beings well ends well”, the trip ended fantastically. The next day morning we landed in Chennai and with hard heart I bided good bye to my relations to carryout the routine life…