Whatan amazing place! I am sure it is atirtha or doorway to look into the holy world or even step into the far shorewhere there live Devas and enlightenment. You have shared so much detailed and fascinating facts of this placecalled Madurai and this temple.
Definitely it is one of the wonders of the world.
One day I would like to visit this tirtha, this holy temple. Even if I am not allowed into the temple to seethe Devi, simply to see the majesty of the temple buildings and feel theexcitement and presence would be such an honor.
When I visited Jaganath Puri, I was not allowed into the temple or certainareas. And that was ok with me, I canunderstand the rules and the importance of such considerations. After all, Jaganath Puri is not a touristattraction, and if anyone were to be allowed in without proving oneself overtime as being something more than simply a foreign tourist, you would havefools entering, insulting the traditions, taking pictures of objects or evenlocals as if they were some sort of carnival or worse.
I was escorted by a temple boy, who allowed me to look down at the grounds froma particular viewpoint, and I was very grateful for that.
I assume that the same sort of rules apply at the Meenakshi Temple? E.g. “non-Hindusnot allowed”, “no foreigners” and such … even if so, still I would certainlylike to visit one day.
Thank you again for sharing so much information about this temple, you haveprovided much more interesting and detail than I can find on the internet ingeneral.
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