Navarathiri Day 8

 

 

Sri Meenakshi Amman

                                 Sri Meenakshi Amman, the Goddess of Madurai is the beautiful form, adorned by the Mariamman on Day 8 of Navarathiri.She was so pleasing with an endearing smile,beauty and majesty,captivating me for some time.We used to get Her Darshan in Madurai frequently during the five years of our stay in the later seventies.No such unprecedented crowds and queues as seen today. 

                                 Meenakshi  Amman's blessings can be sought with the vision of the Amman at very close quarters within a distance of less than two feet tonight.That is a great privilege to be enjoyed only in small shrines like this, where I have seen Mariammans as  Goddess Meenakshi during the Navarathiri or Chithirai Thiruvizha Celebrations in a few temples of our locality.In Madurai synonymous with  the Meenakshi Amman Temple, She blesses Her devotees, that too, paid, more than eight feet away.Yet Her Power in Madurai is infinite.We make it  at the at least once in a year to Her seat in Madurai now.