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I was always fond of this temple. Early morning before going to office the first place I would visit to say HI was to Marundeeshwarar. This is the biggest temple situated in Thiruvanmayur, Chennai, Tamilnadu. The ancient temple brings in peace and happiness as you step in. You can hear the birds cihrping, priest chanting the mantras and few others reading rudram as a whole it will be a best place for good mind. You can feel the vibrations as you go to the temple. The acoustics of the temple with the mild echos of the mantras make it more divine.

As we enter from the ECR road we can see  marundeeshwarar directly. When you go the temple around early morning, when they do the abhishekam you can see the Idol of Shiva directly without any garlands and kavasam. You can see that the shiva lingam is not full , most of the lingam have been eroded. They say that the lingam is made of herbs. Thats the name Marundheeshwarar ( the lord of medicines). Its also believed that he helps to cure any incurable disease. But this must be true, as they pour milk over lord shiva, it runs all over the idol and come out, this way it will bring the essence of the herbs of which the idol is made of.

After visiting lord shiva, when we come around the place , we can see Lord Muruga ( son of Lord shiva) , Lord Durga ( a form of paarvathi, wife of lord shiva) , Lord Kala Bhairavar, Lord Surya ( the sun) , Lord Dhakshinamoorthy ( Guru for studies) , Lord Ganesha ( Son of lord shiva) and back to Lord shiva.

Then when we come out and walk around the premises , we can find separate mandapams for lord Ganesha, Lord Muruga and Lord Tripurasundari. We cant forget the site of Tripurasundari. With  a beautiful 9 yards Saree you can feel you are looking at a real mother there. You can feel the power when you go there. I still remember one person, he would come there every morning and read lalitha Sahasranamam, I have never talked to him but his voice would echo in the mandapam and it would be nice and melodious to hear.

As a whole it is a big temple with beautiful and powerful  God and goddess ruling the place. The peaceful atmosphere gives the best place for meditation.

Atlast I cannot stop commenting about the food. Now I’m in US missing all those thats why wanted to write about that. You can get Tamarind rice, Sweet pongal , Pongal and other snaks. When I was pregnant my husband would get those for me. I would empty everything and look at his face innocently wanting more. You cannot forget the taste of the food anytime in your life once you have tasted it once. 

It is a great place to visit everyday at least once in few years!!!