Rameshwaram Jyotirling Tamil Nadu

Rameshwaram Jyotirling Tamil Nadu

Kerala India

As per Siva Mahapuranam, once Brahma (the Hindu God of creation) and Vishnu (the Hindu God of preservation) had an argument in terms of supremacy of creation. To test them, Shiva pierced the three worlds as a huge endless pillar of light, the jyotirlinga. Vishnu and Brahma split their ways to downwards and upwards respectively to find the end of the light in either directions. Brahma lied that he found out the end, while Vishnu conceded his defeat. Shiva appeared as a second pillar of light and cursed Brahma that he would have no place in ceremonies while Vishnu would be worshipped till the end of eternity. The jyotirlinga is the supreme partless reality, out of which Shiva partly appears. The jyotirlinga shrines, thus are places where Shiva appeared as a fiery column of light. Originally there were believed to be 64 jyotirlingas while 12 of them are considered to be very auspicious and holy. Each of the twelve jyotirlinga sites take the name of the presiding deity – each considered different manifestation of Shiva. At all these sites, the primary image is lingam representing the beginningless and endless Stambha pillar, symbolizing the infinite nature of Shiva.

The twelve jyotirlinga are

  1. Somnath in Gujarat
  2. Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh
  3. Mahakaleswar at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh
  4. Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh
  5. Kedarnath in Himalayas
  6. Bhimashankar in Maharashtra
  7. Viswanath at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh
  8. Triambakeshwar in Maharashtra
  9. Vaidyanath at Deoghar district in Jharkhand
  10. Nageswar at Dwarka in Gujarat
  11. Rameshwar at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu
  12. Grishneshwar at Aurangabad in Maharashtra

Other Neearby Locations

Trivandrum

Kerala India

Thiruananthapuram, the jewel in the emerald necklace that Kerala is for the Indian

Thekkady

Kerala India

Thekkady is situated about 257 km (160 mi) from Trivandrum, 145 km from Cochin

Kovalam

Kerala India

Kovalam first received attention when the Regent Maharani Sethu Lakshmi Bayi of

Kozhikode

Kerala India

Kozhikode will always have a special place in the history of Kerala as it is here that

Bekal Fort

Kerala India

Bekal,a small town in Kasaragod district,is not just a known tourist location of the

Thekkady, Kerala

Kerala India

Thekkady, with its unspoilt tropical forests and incredible wealth of animal and plant

Cochin, Kerala

Kerala India

Kochi (also known as Cochin) is a city in southwest India's coastal Kerala state.

Alleppey, Kerala

Kerala India

Alleppey call Alappuzha.  Referred to as the Venice of the East, Alappuzha has

Munnar, Kerala

Kerala India

Munnar rises as three mountain streams merge - Mudrapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundala.

Munnar

Kerala India

Most of the native flora and fauna of Munnar have disappeared due to severe habitat

Alleppey

Kerala India

Alappuzha (or Alleppey) is a city on the Laccadive Sea in the southern Indian state of