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20250322 || Safari 2025: Opiliappan Temple || Kumbakonam, India #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Name: 20250322 || Safari 2025: Opiliappan Temple || Kumbakonam, India #JayapatakaSwamiArchives
Uploaded: 2025-04-11T13:15:06Z
Duration: 5 min 51 s
Channel: Jayapataka Swami
Description: Short on-location transcript of a guided briefing before darshan at the Opiliappan Temple (Kumbakonam, India). Participants (Sam, Hari Rama, Prabhu, and…

11 Apr 2025 · 6 min

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Short on-location transcript of a guided briefing before darshan at the Opiliappan Temple (Kumbakonam, India). Participants (Sam, Hari Rama, Prabhu, and a speaker) chant names, then Prabhu and another speaker explain a local legend (Lord Balaji and Bhu Devi: the bride was five and the deity thereafter refuses salt — termed Lavana-varjita/Venkatesh) and give practical rules: temple closes at 12:00, leave shoes outside, no photography or video, and keep mobiles pocketed. The group prepares to proceed for darshan.

Sam. It's. Sam. It's. It's. It's. It's. Bas Ra.
Hari Ramari Krishna Krishna Krishnam Rama Ari Rama.
Ram.
Hari Rama.
Rama Ra.
Krishna Krishna Rama.
So.
So I request before we enter in the temple Prabhu he going to brief you little bit in just one or two minutes story of the temple. This temple closer 12 o'.
Clock.
So immediately after this we're going to proceed for the Darshan.
Okay.
Please enlighten us about this holy place. This holy Divya Darshan.
Hare Krishna. So this is the. This Divadesam's name is called. Means nobody is equal team Nobody is about.
Okay.
Here Lord Balaji married Bhudavi Lord is sister Shi and bud. So Lord here married with bud. And at the time of marriage the bud was five. So Markand Rishi was powerful of Bhu Devi. At the time of marriage Maartandrea told oh my dear lord. My daughter 5 years old she cannot. She does not know how to cook with salt and everything. That time Lord told don't worry even she cooks without salt. I'll accept. So from that day onwards Lord is not taking salt in all his. So that's why it's called another one. UPU means salt Salt less Lord in Sanskrit is called Lavana Varjita Venkatesh. But greater details are there. As Prabhu told we can go inside and taste the nectar of nectar in a greater manner.
Thank you.
So remember you see in this temple we're going to leave the shoes outside. The temple mobile looks to be allowed not to use the mobile. But you can keep it in your pocket.
Okay?
This is the rule.
Hare Krishna. Sometimes devotees we have experience and we are sharing it. Sometime devotees used to keep their mobile like this and they will put on the video and it will take. But here all the Bhattacharya Spujaris are very very expert. And they will immediately catch us and they will break the this one. So please don't take any videos inside. Okay? No photos allowed. No videos huh? So please take care of this.
Yes.
Please don't embarrass the movement. Our ISKCON movement Now please. Because we want to. You know we are very lucky. We can come to these places.
No.
Very fortunate. Don't try to take no videos inside. Not the beach, all these areas.
Okay.
Hare Krishna, let's go.
Sam. It's. It's. It's. It.