Spiritual seekers from all over world comes to Tiruvannamalai, an Pilgrimage city
filled with living enlightenment gurus . This sacred city is Located 200 kilometer from Chennai. This ancient
town has been built around Arunachala hill (annamalai hill), an mountain raising 4000 Meter heavenly from
the ground. Tiruvannamalai is famous for sprawling temple arunachala
templededicated to Lord Shiva. Every full moon day people walk around the
annamalai hill and offer special prayers to Arunachala temple called Girivalam. Spiritual gurus Yogi Ramsuratkumar , Ramana Maharshi,
Arabindo, Shesathiri Swamigal , Muniyandi swamigal and many more saints and sadhus were living and still living here
to bring the divine close to people.
Tiruvannamalai is the capital city of Tiruvannamalai district. In order to
improve the Tamil Nadu government administration this district has been carved from North Arcot district on 1989. North and west
of Tiruvannamalai is covered by Vellore, where the Southwest is by Krishnagiri District. Both Villupuram and kanchipuram are
located in South and east side of Tiruvannamalai district respectively.
District total population is 2181856. During summer the temperature reach upto 34.93 Celsius. On winter
(November,december and January) 19.36 Celsius degree.
The Hindu believes that Tiruvannamalai earns the pride of being the Neruppu (Agni) or light. Agni forms one of the five
components that comprises the universe. The five components are:
Earth
Water
Fire
Air
Sky or the Ether
Hindu’s story often goes that Shiva assumed the form of a huge column of fire, whose origins Brahmma and Vishnu failed to
trace
Tourist information
During the cool months from November to February tourist and spiritual guru seekers from all over the world especially from
Europe, America and Australia come to Tiruvannamalai. Finding accommodation will be
difficult during this peak time and should be booked in advance (see travel
guide to tiruvannamalai). The town has been recognized as a pilgrimage site by
Tamil Nadu government tourism board, so finding travel arrangements and accommodations wont be an issue for foreign
tourists. There is lot of frequent public transportation
from chennai airport.
Visiting Places in Tiruvannamalai
As a holy city Tiruvannamalai has many ashrams built many different sadhus and spiritual
gurus. The great Advaita Vedanta guru sesadri
swamigal, baghawan Ramana Maharshi found thier ashram at
tiruvannamalai also Yogi Ramsuratkumar. These ashrams, arunachala, girivalam and
sathanur dam are the main visiting place for Tiruvannamalai tourism. Ramana
Ashram and Yogi Ramsuratkumar ashram both has an excellent meditation hall which often filled by prayers and spiritual
presentation.
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