Daiwik Hotel welcomes you to Shirdi, a town blessed by the presence of one of the most revered saints of modern India – Sai Baba.
In the nineteenth century this nameless wandering teacher chose to stay at Shirdi and in the next sixty years he became the source of wisdom and spiritual solace to its people. He was a healer, a teacher, a powerful voice for religious tolerance and he helped the poor with his unending generosity. Sai Baba spent his life in an old mosque, begging daily for his food and wearing torn old clothes. He gave away everything he received from his followers and lived like the poor people that he served with such loving kindness. Gradually his fame spread across the land and today devotees come in thousands every day to pray at his memorial, his Samadhi, and his followers can be found across the world. For many Sai Baba is a supreme guru, for others a great yogi and for some a true faqir. He is loved and respected by people of every religion because he spoke of the universal values of love and forgiveness, of equality and tolerance, charity and devotion to God. The life of Sai Baba is a living example of his teachings and an inspiration to his followers. For him people of every religion, caste and gender were equal and his doors were open to everyone. Read More About Shirdi Sai Baba
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Rameswaram is a tropical area and the weather is hot and humid all the year round. The coolest months are November and December. However it is also the rainy season in Tamil Nadu. How to go By Air The nearest airport is in Madurai (174 km). By Road Madurai is connected to Rameswaram via NH-49. Even connecting Trains & Buses from Madurai is always available. Chennai (556 km) is connected to Rameswaram as well via East Coast Road (ECR ) upto Ramnad & then NH- 49 follows. For Best Hotels in Rameshwaram, Book Daiwik Hotels Today. Call 03340621203 Like all tirthas, Rameswaram has one central temple and a number of smaller shrines, most of them with temple myths woven around the Ramayana. Lord Rama’s journey and stay here has been marked by these temples where pilgrims have worshipped for centuries. Scholars have traced his journey through the Ramanathapuram region through the Sanskrit verses mentioned in Valmiki’s Ramayana. Book rooms in Rameswaram online and make your trip a memorable one.
Know More: Rameswaram Trip and Best Rameshwaram Hotels There are a number of weekly and annual festivals when the images of deities are taken out in procession. For example, every Friday at 9 PM the goddess Parvathavardhini is taken around the third prakara enclosure in a golden palanquin. It is the annual festivals that bring pilgrims from across the land.
The calendar of annual festivals is given below. As the dates of the festivals are according to the lunar calendar. Know About the Festivals here: Festivals, Ramanathaswamy Temple At the heart of Rameswaram stands the Ramathaswamy Temple, one of the greatest shrines in India. And Daiwik Hotel is just 3 km from the temple.
The story of the temple begins after the war in Lanka was over. After coming back to Rameswaram Lord Rama decided to perform the severest of austerities as a penance for the deaths in the battle and also because among those he had killed was Ravana who was a Brahmin. Also he wanted to worship Lord Shiva to appease him as the god was angered at the death of his devotee Ravana. The Ramanathaswamy Temple is said to stand at the site of this antyeshti and prayaschitta yagya. The Skanda Purana says the yagya took place in the month of Jyeshtha, the Tamil month of Ani; sukla paksha, dasam tithi. For the ceremony Rama needed a Shivalingam and he sent Hanuman to Mount Kailash to get a crystal lingam. However, at the auspicious hour Hanuman had still not returned and so Sita created a lingam with sand and Shiva was worshipped as Ramanatha, the lord of Rama. This is the Ramalingam that stands in the garbha griha of the temple. Read More: The Ramanathaswamy Temple Today temples stand at all the places where he performed these yagyas at Rameswaram, Devipattinam and Tirupullani. The most sacred is the Ramanathaswamy Temple at Rameswaram that has a jyotirlingam of Shiva.
After a mighty battle Rama triumphed, killing Ravana, his brother Kumbhkarana and son Indrajit. Then riding the celestial chariot, the pushpak ratha he came back to Rameswaram with Sita. Here he decided to perform an antyeshti yagya, or the funeral rites for Ravana. He also did a prayaschitta yagya, a religious rite of atonement because he had killed Ravana who was a Brahmin. With this yagya he hoped to appease Shiva as Ravana was a great devotee of Shiva and the god was displeased at his death. Today the great Ramanathaswamy Temple stands at the place where this yagyas took place. So at Rameswaram, Rama an avatar of Vishnu worships Shiva who is addressed as Ramanathaswamy, the lord of Rama. The shivalingam in the Ramanathaswamy Temple is considered to be one of the twelve sacred jyotirlingams. Also the tirtha is important for funeral rites and pind daan, the worship of ancestors, because of the yagya by Rama. If you are planning for Rameshwaram trip, then book your hotel at Daiwik - one of the best 4 star hotels in Rameshwaram. Daiwik Hotels welcomes you to Rameswaram. This holy pilgrimage has called the devout to its wave lashed shores for centuries. It is a sacred space touched by the divine presence of Lord Vishnu, Lord Shiva and Lord Rama and its many temples will bring you peace, joy and enlightenment.
Rameswaram is the southern most Hindu pilgrimage as it is located on an island off the Coromandel Coast of Tamil Nadu. The island has an area of 52 square kilometres and is separated from the mainland by the Pamban Canal and connected by the Indira Gandhi Bridge. In Hinduism the confluence of the waters of rivers and oceans are considered sacred and Rameswaram is at the site of a rare merging of the waters of the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. The faithful say the island is shaped like the conch of Lord Vishnu called panchajanya. The island is in the Gulf of Mannar and right across the bay is the island of Sri Lanka, which is just 74 km away. Rameswaram has much to offer the pilgrim. It is one of the Chaar Dhaams of Vishnu. It is a part of the legend of Rama and most of the temples here are connected to episodes from the Ramayana. It also has one of the twelve sacred Jyotirlingams of Shiva. So it is a Harihara Tirtha, a pilgrimage sacred to both Vaishnavas and Shaivas. Rama prayed here to the warrior goddess Durga and so there is a famous temple dedicated to her at Devipattinam. Know More About Rameshwaram Trip Dwarka is in the state of Gujarat and stands on the Arabian Sea by the west coast of India in the Jamnagar District of Gujarat. It is in the Saurashtra region on the Gulf of Kutch. It is 457 km from Ahmedabad, 230 km from Rajkot, 75 km from Porbander and 144 km from Jamnagar.
Know How to Travel Dwarka The most important festival at the Dwarkadhish Temple is Janamashtami, the day of Lord Krishna’s birth. Like in Mathura where he was born, this is a day and night celebration with the rituals reaching a crescendo at midnight, the time of his birth. The temple also has a daily schedule of pujas, aarti and darshan when devotees can watch the rituals in the garbha griha.
The religious rituals of the temple were established by the Vaishanava saints Ramanujacharya and Madhavacharya. So the temple follows the ritual guidelines of the Pushti Marga system of worship. There are daily aartis with the playing of drums, cymbals and bells as people sing out the lord’s praises. Read More: About Pujas & Festivals at Dwarka At the heart of Dwarka city stands the temple with the high shikhara from which a huge saffron flag flies in the wind. This is the ancient and holy Dwarkadhish Temple dedicated to Lord Krishna, the founder of the city of Dwarka. Here he is not worshipped as the lovable child god or the flute playing cowherd as he is in Mathura and Vrindavan. In Dwarka he is the regal and majestic Dwarkanath or Dwarkadhish, the supreme lord of Dwarka. The deity is also affectionately called Ranchhodji, the god who left the battlefield.
Worshippers of Lord Krishna have travelled to Dwarka for centuries and for Vaishnavas, the Hindus who worship Vishnu, this is one of the Char Dhaams and also one of the 108 Divya Desam tirthas. The great Hindu philosopher Adi Shankaracharya came here in the ninth century to establish one of his monasteries, the Sharada Math. In medieval times the poet saint Mirabai left the kingdom of Chittor in Rajasthan and spent her last years here. She sang to Krishna, “I’m coloured with the colour of dusk, O Rana Coloured with the colours of my Lord. Drumming out the rhythms on the drums, I danced Dancing in the presence of the saints Coloured with the colours of my Lord.” Read More: About Dwarkadhish Temple |