Today 2.5 million women gather at Trivandrum, India

Attukal Pongala
The first and highest women gathering in the world for offering Food (Nivedya Paysam) to Attukal Bhagavathy. This is an unique event which has entered the Guinness of World Records.

Visit Trinvandrum during this period, the capital city of GOD'S own country.

STORY OF BIRTH OF KERALA

As per the Hindu mythology, Kerala was created by Parasurama, by throwing his axe from GOKARN, near Karwar, Karnataka. The sea on the direction of the axe moved out and a strip of land was formed. Parasurama, assumed to be avatar of Vishnu was half Kshatriya and Half Bramin. There fore he was strong as well as yogi. (His ability to create a land from the sea cannot be questioned as it is said that when a person reach rajayoga stage he can do much more.)
Parasurama was doing it as repentance to his barbaric act of killing hundreds of Kshatriya as a revenge for killing his parents by king Kartyaveerarjuna.
In those days fight between Aryans and Dravidian were at its height. Parasurama wants to stop it once for all. Therefore he created a strip of land. He forcefully brought some of the Aryan family from Narmada basin and some Dravidian family from Tamilnadu. They are forced to live together as a community including marriage between both communities. (Onam as a matter of fact is remembrance of the King Mahabali who ruled Narmada basin.It was there Vamana pushed him down to Patal.)Parasurama then created diety called Sastha who is the son of both VISHNU & SHIVA around the Western Ghat section and BHAGAVATI along the coastal area. BHAGAVATHI is Saraswathi, Lekshmi& Kali in one. In the process both Aryans and Dravidians has to bow in front of SASTHA & BHAGAVATI. I shall write the sub stories later. This how Kerala is born with new language MALAYALAM with Sanscrit as its father and Tamil as its mother.

God's Own country

List of the temples will keep increasing over a period of time. I have my plans to write about these temples, churches and mosques in separate blogs, since each one of them in Kerala has a story to tell the world.
Kerala, known as GOD's Own Country is the land of myriad pleasures.
Selected by National Geographic Traveler as one of the ten Paradises of the World.
Kerala is overwhelmingly green land,Silken realms of Emerald backwaters, long charming shorelines fringed with palm groves, spice-scented hilltops,lush jungle, exotic wild life, spectacular art forms, colourful festivals, and unique culture and traditions, makes it a a truly God's own country.
The temples and churches and mosques in Kerala has a story to tell the world which influenced unique culture and traditions of Kerala. Communal harmoney in Kerala stands out in the land of Mahabali. No other state in India or any country in the world can boast about the initiatives of our forefathers and rulers in establishing a trdition and culture congenial to communal harmony.

SIGNIFICANCE OF PILGRIMAGE

Pilgrimage tourism -India is an humble attempt to open the eyes of the world with stories, articles, quotes, places of worship& their stories, to understand the varied heritage and ancient wisdom of India.
What you are going to get out of this?
The real truth about LIFE.
Pilgrimage in India , what is so great about it.?
Ancient wisdom created 33 crore goddess which represent each cell in your body.
Each cell in your body has distinctly different function to perform.
Ancient wisdom helped people to help themselves, through prayers and daily rituals to create a bio-rhythm in them, where mind, body and soul, ( the holy Trinity) worked harmoniously for good health, long life, prosperity, communal harmony, wisdom & peace.

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