Ujjain Mahakaleswar & Omkareshwar Jothirling darshan - Part 1


We started from Chennai to visit Ujjain Mahakaleswar.
We have taken the Tamilnadu express train 10pm from Chennai central.
it reached Bhopal 8:45Pm next day.30 min late. then we took Bhopal to Ujjain train 23:40 taken 40 min late and reached Ujjain 30 min late, reached at 3:00 AM

Taken autos to Mahakaleswar dharmasala where we have booked our rooms through internet. this is run by temple it self. room was clean & tidy.
Woke up around 5 Am and went to take bath in SHIPRA river. it is walk-able distance from our place. Rudra sagar lake in the right side was dry & left side was with little water
the river was big. lights are there in the ghats.hence we have taken a bath and rushed to our rooms. refreshed our self and went to have darshan of Ujjan Mahakaleswar. The temple was medium in size. we went joined in the queue. The queue moves at normal speed. The queue moves to hall in serpent snake form. the hall was decorated with beautiful paintings. The siva drinking poison picture was awesome. In TV live mahakaleswar darsan was going on. So the time moves very fast. then the queue moves down slide(slope), All run to get the glimpse of Mahakaleswar. From 10 meter distance we are allowed to have darshan. It was 3-4 feet shiva linga. we had good darshan. the persons are telling us to move like Tirupathy.

then we came out joined the queue to get the basma aarthi for next day. We have to shows our original aadhar cards. they gives one form only 5 person name be listed in 1 forms.
hence we taken 3 forms and filled all 15 names. In the forms they will write one token number. from 8:30 AM they are asking us come with filled forms along with persons.
our token number is 49,50 & 51. we have taken the POHA and tea as our morning break fast from the nearby shop. Poha is avval uppuma, on top of it they put some karasev and spice powder. our family members liked it.

Then waited at the counter. we booked the local site seeing for the group.
our turn come went in line they have taken aadhar card photo & our photo and give the entry slips for Basma Aarthi. Then we went for local site seeing in lengthy share auto.

Ayodhya Mathura Maya Kasi Kanchi Avantika |
Puri Dvaravati chaiva saptaita moksadayikah ||

• One of the moksha shetram
• Viramatidan ruled place
• Kalidasa lived place
• Lord krishna gurukulam here

Bhartrihari Caves
The Bhartrihari Caves are situated on the bank of River Shipra, adjacent to the temple of Gadkalika. There is a traditional belief that at this very spot, Bhartrihari, who is known as the stepbrother of Vikramaditya, lived and meditated. few places our very low ceiling. we have to bend half our body to go inside. in one side we have to walk down the narrow steps to go down. all kids are enjoyed it. but elder person not came inside.even the outside temperature was 40 degree. inside was very cool.

Gadkalika Temple
very famous temple. Only gadkali face is there. Famouse poet kalidas prayed this kali to get the powers to write poetry. Saraswathi & lakshmi are there in two sides of Gadkali

Kal Bhairava Temple
The most important among the eight bhairavas of the Shaivites is Kal Bhairava, which has been built under the benefaction of King Bhadresen, on the bank of River Shipra at Ujjain. A mention of Kal Bhairava is found in the Avanti Khanda of the Skanda Purana. There is a tradition in this temple to offer liquor, The priest just put liquor and keep in kalbairav mouth.kalbairav drinks it. He again does the same thing kalbairav drinks again.hence balance is taken as prasad. It is phenomenal, we waited and watched this. even the priest told us to move and give way for others.

Siddhavat 
Siddhavat is a huge banyan tree that has flourished on the bank of River Shipra and holds immense religious importance,
like the Akashyavat in Prayag and Gaya and the Panchavat of Nasik.
Priest said that the Mughal rulers cut off the banyan tree and they covered the entire area with iron sheets to restrict the growth of the tree. However, this sacred tree pierced the iron sheets and flourished significantly.

Mangalnath Temple.

Here Lot of persons are doing the pariharam for sevvai dosham.
In one plate the RICE is made in the shape of linga swaroopa. it remebered the anna abishekam. In the right side bhuvaneswari amman is there.

Sandipani Ashram
Lord Krishna and Sudama studied here.
Balrama also seen here. the dressing in pink colour all the three is very good.
there is big tank is there. the design was very good.

we came back taken lunch in the mahakal annadhan. We reached room every one was tired and started relaxing. Suddenly kanaka patti told she lost the back. everyone went to the annadhan counter, shoe rack place etc.
Ramdass uncle told you are having the back in your hand after finishing lunch.then we searched in the room.Eureka found the bag.

Few went for to have darshan of mahakal. few slept well in the room. The rain was pouring outside. After 7pm it was stopped. we went outside and visited the bade ganesh mandir. Rain started again. so we came back. taken food and started sleeping early.

Bade Ganesh mandir
we went to bade ganesh mandir. Here Ganesh is with his wife's siddi & bhuddi. it is very rare to see ganesh with wives.

inside Hanuman with 5 faces. in the foot there is a person. it is peculiar. there is a navagraha and duraga devi also.

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Ujjain Mahakaleswar & Omkareshwar Jothirling darshan - Part 2
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