Trip to Naimisaranya Naimisharanya Naimisharanyam Naimisaranyam Temple
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About General Place: Naimisarnyam
Hotels:
I stayed at Lucknow –hotel sagar(room rent Rs.1580pn no 0522- 2206601 to 05, fax 0522-2206644, email mailto:info@hotelsagar.com,%20hotelsagar@satyam.net.in Website-www.hotelsagar.com) and took a taxi to this place and back at Rs1000. You can also stay at sitapur and come to this place.
Other hotels: Use link - http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.net/India-Guide/IndianStates/Uttar-Pradesh/Lucknow.htm
Details about the temple through links:
http://divyadesamonline.com/hindu/temples/kolkota/naimisaranyam-temple.asp
NaimisaranyaThis is where the Srimad Bhagavatam was spoken. It is said that a pilgrimage to Badrinath and Kedarnath is incomplete without a visit to Naimisaranya. In the Mahabharata it is said, “Anyone who fasts, prays, and attains perfection at Naimisaranya finds happiness in all the worlds.”
When Lord Brahma contemplated a great wheel that would span the entire universe, the wheel’s center was at xe "Naimisaranya" Naimisaranya. Naimisaranya has a parikrama (circumambulation) path of 16km, in which all the sacred places in India are believed to be located.
Lord Balarama, Dadhici Muni, the Pandavas, Prabhu Nityananda, and Ramanujacharya all came here. The Pandavas are said to have come here when they were in exile. This is the place where the demigods came to ask Dadhici for his body, to be able to create a weapon that would be able to kill the demon Vritrasura. Lord Rama is said to have performed a sacrifice here for killing Ravana.
It is said that if you bathe in Chakra-tirtha Kund and make an offering to the presiding deity, Lalita, on a full moon day that falls on a Monday, you will wash away all the sins committed in a lifetime. About 10,000 people come for this. Lalita Devi, the presiding female deity of Naimisaranya, is said to grant fulfillment of desires.
InformationIt takes about two or three hours to see the major places here. I hired a guide for Rs 100 for two hours. He did not speak very good English, but he knew all the places. These places would have been difficult to find without him, as almost no one here spoke English and the places are spread out.
If you would like to walk around Chakra-tirtha, which is what most of the pilgrims do, remember to bring clothes for bathing.
Chakra Tirtha KundAt the junction of Dwapara and Kali-yuga, 80,000 sages headed by Saunaka Rishi wanted to perform a sacrifice to hold off the effects of the oncoming age of Kali. They asked Lord Brahma where they should hold the sacrifice, and he told them he would send his disc to the earth and they should perform the sacrifice where it hit. It struck the earth at Naimisaranya. The disc passed through the earth at this spot, Chakra-tirtha.The Bhagavat Purana says there is no holy place on earth that compares to this one.
Chakra-tirtha is said to be the center of the universe. It is said that the large sweet-water spring that marks the location of Chakra-tirtha has no bottom. The British wanted to disprove this as mythology, so they brought a cable and attempted to find the bottom. After more than 1000 metres (3300 ft) they ran out of cable and gave up.
Vyasa GaddiClose to Chakra-tirtha is where Vedavyasa is said to have divided the Vedas into four parts and written the Puranas. There is a big banyan tree here which is said to be over 5,000 years old and the place where Vyasa sat. In the temple there is a deity of Vyasadeva.
Hanuman Garhi & Panch PandavaThere is a 5½m (18 ft) self-manifested Hanuman deity here. In the Ramayana it says that Ravana captured Rama and Laksman and kept them in Patalaloka at the bottom of the universe. Hanuman came and rescued them. When he came back to earth he arrived at Naimisaranya. There is a deity of Hanuman, with Rama on one shoulder and Laksman on the other. Pilgrims buy big sweets and put them in his mouth.Panch Pandava is a temple dedicated to the Pandavas.
Other PlacesSuta Gadi is where Suta Goswami sat while instructing the sages 5,000 years ago. He spoke the Srimad Bhagavatam here.
There is also the Narada Deva Temple with 108 altars and the 1008 Siva-linga Temple, containing copies of the four Vedas and Puranas, including Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavat Purana).Where to Stay and EatYou would normally come here for a day trip from either Lucknow or Sitapur. It is best to bring your own water, as I did not see any place that sold bottled water or cold drinks. There is a decent basic Government Bungalow here, which usually does not have electricity.
TravelNaimisaranya is about 80km northwest of Lucknow and 60km from Sitapur. To get here you would normally go first to Lucknow or Sitapur.
From Lucknow there are regular buses (3 hr) from the Kasierbagh Bus Stand. It could be a good idea to take a taxi to Naimisaranya from Lucknow, as the bus trip is long and painful. You can also take a passenger train from Lucknow to Sitapur, and then get a bus to Naimisaranya from there. This complete trip would take four or five hours one way. There are regular buses to and from Sitapur (2 hr).
The bus stand in Naimisaranya is about an eight-minute rickshaw ride from Cakra-tirtha. The bus stand is a little off the road.
Photos of temple
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How I went:
I stayed at Lucknow and took a taxi to this place and back at Rs1000. You can also stay at sitapur and come to this place. The taxi service phone no is Mr.Shafi -9839071274.
Visited Chakra Tirtha first, Go(cow thirtha) jus adjacent when you do a circumambulation of chakratheertha. There is a shiva temple on chakrathirtha which you can worship. Next I went sakthi shakthi peet of godess Lalita and then to gomti river, vyas gufa, hauman temple and finally to Narayan temple which is a 108 divya desam temple.
The place is very old and has lot of link to vedic age.
How to reach
Nearest Airport – Lucknow
Nearest Rail Head/ Railway Station – Lucknow or Sitapur.
Road Access: By local busses from Lucknow or Sitapur
Preferred travel base: Kolkata
STD Code of Kolkatta -033
Railway Station code for Lucknow – LKO ,Sitapur – STP and for Chennai MAS
For Internet/ Mobile Railway ticket Booking in India use
http://www.irctc.co.in/
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