ganugapuram , akkalkotkar , pandaripuram ....

main temple

25th oct 2012 we plan for ganugapuram ... so we try to book tickets for HUSSAIN SAGAR  express but we d'nt get it. so we book tickets for KONARK EXPRESS.... we 5 people (me , my husband , my mother-in-law , and goutham's brother and his wife )....started by 11.45 konark express... malini akka  sai and varun came to drop us at secunderabad station  but train is late  so  we started by 12 pm ... and we reach GULBARG by 4.45 pm and we got  auto to reach  bus station then we got a bus to chittapur village .. from there we can get auto to GANUGAPURAM ....(if we get HUSSAIN SAGAR we can reach ganugapuram road directly and we can rech temple in 10 min)...

As we arrange earlier  we reach DAMODAR POOJARI home directly But at that time he is not at home , his family members arrange 2 rooms for us .. so we got fresh and went to temple immediately ....we saw swami idole . while comming  out that poojari garu came for us and he talk to us about next day program ....

paduka 

In the next day 26th oct.....Early morning 3PM we reach temple to get darshan then we light deepa in that temple and we wait there for NIJAPADA DARSHAN... then we sat down in the temple for a while and we came back to our room .. But my attaya garu want to  read some holy books like dattatreya vajrakavacham  so we gave   those  books to her. By 7AM we got fresh and we reach temple again for abhishakam ... so 1st damodar poojari garu ask us 2 go  for sankalpam infront of paduka in a lane... then in abhishaka mandapam they perform abhishekam for us.

 Then we came out form temple and had some breakfast  and  went to sangam ( bheema-amaraja rivers ) .................

At sangam we saw a saint whos name is RAMKOTI BABA who is behaving like a kid ... he is from Hyderabad and he spend all his money 2 build mandapam fensing to  Audumbura tree  and  sangam  road ... now he is living there only he has pupil  who is looking about him. there he is doing pooja to DHUNI ( like shridi sai baba) ....we light deepa's in the river   and we got a red KNOT to tie audumbura tree. we did  11 pradekshana and goutam and bavagaru  tie that knot. there we have one CHINTAMANI GANESH idol ....while comming out my mother-in-law ask us to wish to that saint so me and goutam went 2 him he bless both of us...

Then we all started back to our room ... poojari garu prepared  bhiksha ... bavagaru offer PONGALI and goutam got chance to offer PULIHARA .... me and  my sister went for bhiksha and while we are returing goutam and his brother also went for Bhiksha ... By that time poojari garu arrange lunch for us we had lunch and we started from  Ganugapuram to AKKALKOT . By 2pm we started and we reach akkalkotkar by 4.30 and we reach YATRI NIVAS and we book 2 rooms ... after getting fresh we reach temple by 5.30 pm  and spend 2 hours there and we went to vikas hotel (near akkalkot bus stand) for  dinner. finally we reach our hotel by 9 pm .  In that yatri nivas  we have a painting  museum of swami sadguru there we can see the life cycle of swami .....

Next day morning we got fresh  started to pandaripuram at 6AM  by  bus.. on the way we cross chittravathi river (chandrabaga ) and reach ther by morning 9.30 AM and we kept our luggage at clock room and we started to temple by auto .. there we have 2 types of darshan 

1) MUKHA darshanam  (only face darshan) means we can go directly in to temple but we can see only face of lord  panduranga ...even at rukmini devi temple also we c'nt see clearly ... so we want 2 go for second type of darshan.

                                                        (que complex building)

2) In this type we have to wait in que complex for our turn it will take 3+ hours..  .. so we wait till 2.40 pm for our turn ....we purchase some prasadam in that complex to offer him  but that preast took that prasadam and he gave some kumkum pasupu to me .....

then we sat in that mandapam for a while and we went to RUKMINI DEVI mandapam there prest offer some holy clothes to us .. then my attayagaru gave some money to him....

then we check for some hotel and we had lunch by 4pm and  did some shoping till 5pm and reached bus stand ... and got some bus to SHOLAPUR( from pandaripur we have to book tickets 1 day before so we dnt get direct bus  )  and we got  hyderabad bus at 7.45 PM, bus started at 8.30 PM bt we reach hyd At 2.30 AM ......