ஆரூரா! தியாகேசா !! - Darshan at Thyagesa Temple
ஆரூரா! தியாகேசா !! 02 Aug 2026 I have been to this massive temple a number of times; many of those visits were before my teens. In the last decade, I only visited about two or three times with wide gaps. Nothing much registered when I was young, nor during the darshan trips of the last decade, because those trips felt rushed as I combined them with work. But my visit to the temple yesterday was incredibly pleasant, even though I spent just a little over an hour there. This time, I didn't combine it with any work schedule. The Kamalalayam (கமலாலயம்) tank has perennial water with absolutely no signs of soil erosion. The cab driver explained that the tank is of the same space proportion as the mammoth temple itself! The reason for the abundance of water is that there are a number of ever-secreting wells inside the big tank. I entered the temple through the western dhwara, the big entry doors, and went straight to the Goddess Kamala Devi shrine, passing through a sm...