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RAMESHWARAM, INDIA, January 16, 2004: Ma Amritanandamayi, affectionately known as Amma, paid a visit to the Rameshwaram Temple, one of the major pilgrimage sites in South India. Rameshwaram is the place where Lord Rama began to build a bridge across the sea to rescue his wife Sita from her abductor, Ravana, the king of Lanka. It is also the place where Rama worshipped Lord Siva after his successful mission. The present temple was built in 1717. It took 30 years to complete the structure. Amma was welcomed by one of the temple’s chief priests and the executive officer who garlanded her and escorted her in. Many temple pujaris were waiting for Amma to arrive at the main shrine that houses one of the twelve sacred Jyotir lingams if India. Here they garlanded Amma, performed arati, and offered bilva leaf and water from the sacred Ganges. On the western side of the temple, Amma stopped at the shrine of Lord Nataraja. Here more than 100,000 large rudraksha beads have been strung together to form a temple for Nataraja, Lord Shiva in His act of the Cosmic Dance. For more details of Amma’s visit and of Rameshwaran temple, click on “source” above.

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