Kanchipuram - A Temple City

[balajimannar2007]

THANKS DEAR SRIMANSRINI FOR showing my BIRTH city to the world .KANCHIPURAM THE LAND OF 108 DIVYADESAMS.

[lsjtifo]

TONNES OF THANKS TO THE VID UPLOADER. THE VDO IS CRISP, SHORT YET WITH MINIMUM INFORMATION ON A GREAT CITY. I HOPE MODERNISATION AND TOURISM WILL BE MANAGED IMAGINATIVELY SO THAT THE MESSAGE OF KANCHI IS NOT DISTORTED OR KILLED. ALSO I LIKE THE SWEET, MEDIUM TO FAST PACED LILT OF MANDOLIN (WETERN INSTRUMENT) AND RHYTHM ACCOMPANIMENT (MRIDANGAM) PRESENTED WITH THE VIDEO.

[MarjorieBakre]

UPLOADER SRIMANSRINI DESERVE OUR HEARTY AND GRATEFUL APPRECIATION FOR HIS WONDERFUL VIDEO ON KANCHI, WHICH ENCOURAGES VIEWER CURIOSITY TO UNDERSTAND THE UNDERLYING SIGNIFICANCE OF WHY SO MANY IN A CONTINUITY CHERISHED AND BUILT UP SUCH AN SPIRITUALISED ARCHITECTURE FOR MANKIND'S BENEFIT. I have also commented in resp.to Rohit.. and Binoy.I am an informal Hindu that is universalist.

[shriguru]

AUM HARI AUM.

Can you please mention the scripture in Cedas and in Sanskirt where it says that Devi Parvati worshipped Bhagavan Siva at this temple under a mango tree with Siva linga made of sand??

[Rohit84up]

@shriguru

You are absolutely right and thats why i hate to admit but i have lost my faith in hinduism. There are so many repetitive contradictions which makes people like me to rebel against hinduism and look else where to satisfy spritiual needs.

[srimansrini]

I guess you haven't clearly understood the philosophies of Hinduism. Try to read the teaching of Swami Vivekananda to clarify your primary doubts about the great religion called Hinduism.

[Rohit84up]

@srimansrini

I dont need to read anyone's teaching especially another hindu swami. I tend to rely on my common sense and have concluded that hinduism is not for me. Meaningless countless rituals, unlimited contradictions and unlogical tales makes me question its very existance and practice. If it makes you happy then all power to you.

[MarjorieBakre]

@Rohit84up @snimansrini No genuine Guru or Swami will tell you to blindly accept or follow him, as he can only show you the way and you should walk it yourself (realise and work out peace, fulfilment and liberation from miseries of existence, 'losing' into its positives).

[MarjorieBakre]

@Rohit84up >> Studies, self reflection, guidance from better informed or realised people, mingling in crowds (they are of diverse subsystems of faith of Hinduism which as someone has said is the most secular due to diversity) -- are all aids which must be availed of, so the seeker does not become a pervert who mistakes the map to be the territory.It's your prerogative to do what you do, say, etc but bear its conseqs.

[kumarsa108]

@Rohit84up well swings and roundabouts, I have found Hinduism makes absolute sense to me. How odd coming from a Christian background and here you bamboozled by the Vedantic religion.

[Rohit84up]

@kumarsa108

Well if you wana play deaf, dumb and blind then all power to you. Expand your harizon and you might find the truth some day and trust me it does not lie in hinduism.

[kumarsa108]

@Rohit84up why would I trust you? You have displayed no knowledge of Hinduism, but you slate it then you presume to claim that I am deaf and dumb, but you have no Idea of what I know. Pray tell what so called truth have you found?

[bmkaruppan]

@Rohit84up Hinduism is a misnomer, due to people who flooded into India without pausing to understand it. Hinduism stands for simple, unfettered philosophy and living of life which is expressed in the most ancient of world's spiritual texts namely the Vedas. Only the Vedas declare all paths of faith lead to the One Absolute God who shows to different peoples differently.

[bmkaruppan]

@Rohit84up Esply Christianity and Islam have produced the greatest no. of fanatics and extremists threatening modern civilisation due to fanaticism = lack of human and natural diversity. Greatest thinkers across the world have boldly come out with their admiration of the Vedic tenets that converge spiritually and at the higher end of science.

[bmkaruppan]

@Rohit84up (Correction to one sentence I just wrote) Esply Christianity and Islam have produced the greatest no. of fanatics and extremists threatening modern civilisation due to fanaticism = lack of RESPECT AND BOLD ADMISSION of human and natural diversity in their propaganda. I do not mean their original exponents (Jesus and Prophert Nabi).K'puram with huge temples for Vishnu and Siva represents honours this diversity of basic oneness of God.

[chandanasb]

Thank you for this wonderful video.

[binoyrakesh]

Thanks for this video. I am originally from Chennai and I have great love and attachment to Kanchi.

Makes me want to go back and visit all the Gods who have their temples in and around Kanchipuram, Chennai, Kumbakonam, Thanjavur and Madurai. Nothing beats the Hindu Philosophy and secular nature. Love and prosperity to all. God Bless.

[Rohit84up]

@binoyrakesh

What an idiot..... "visit the gods"? First of all its not GODs its a GOD. Secondly god is suppose to be everywhere even within yourself so how could you embarrass hindus like this? You have some nerves to talk about hindu philosophy.

[binoyrakesh]

there are many different gods in hinduism.

whats wrongs with that? the forces of nature are represented as a individual gods.

and mind your language.

[MarjorieBakre]

@binoyrakesh Many gods ? Yes and No. God is one. (Ekaa murtih.) For average people, meaning 99.99% of all humanity, He or She or It has to be visualised in a certain method, so that a handful of them will be able to realise the Single Absolute Truth of Universal Consciousness present in everything and everywhere. Thus, the cycle of creation, sustenance and destruction is viewed as acts of the single God visualised as Brahmaa, Vishnu and Shiva (respectively). CONTD.>> 2

[meene]

@Rohit84up HInduism is very vast to understand. please try to understand the underlying principle in this religion. You may say there are several gods at the same time say only one. this is the very essence of this religion. There are many massengers in indian culture like budda, thirthankaras, Shankaracharya, Ramanujacharya and Madhwacharya. all are equivocal in the concept of god. there is no doubt in this regard. for many mind sets many faces of god. let them practice their own way

[MarjorieBakre]

@binoyrakesh >> There are different attributes, like valour, energy, nobility, and so on, of all animate life, not just human. It is best to treat these manifestations as divine, and not just at a mundane level and desecrate them, as a purely scientific/ materialistic view has led to. Vedic wisdom says, everything, everywhere, in the space-time domain is divinity. And not just a human folm hanging in the skies or borne as 'the' divine son!

[salugramaradha]

wonderfull. Beatifull music too