Worship:
v
Puja:
The temple
follows "Vaikhanasa Agama" tradition
of worship, which is believed to be revealed by Sage Vikhanasa and is
propagated by his disciples Atri, Bhrigu, Marichi, Kasyapa.Vaikhanasa is one of the principal traditions
of Hinduismand primarily worships Vishnu (and his associated Avatars) as the Supreme God. This
ancient texts recommends six times puja(worship) a day for Vishnu, of which minimum
one puja is mandatory.Rituals are classified as daily, weekly and periodical.
The daily sevas in Temple(in order of occurrence) include SuprabhataSeva, ThomalaSeva,Archana, Kalyanotsavam, Dolotsavam(UnjalSeva), ArjitaBrahmotsavam, ArjitaVasantotsavam, SahasraDipalankaranaSeva, EkantaSeva. Weekly sevas of the Temple include VisheshaPooja on
Monday, AshtadalaPadaPadmaradhana on Tuesday, SahasraKalasabhishekam on Wednesday, TiruppavadaSeva on Thursday, Abhishekam and NijapadaDarshanam on Friday. There are no weekly
sevas on Saturday and Sunday. Periodical rituals include Jyesthabhishekam,
AaniwaraAsthanam, Pavithrotsavam, KoilAlwarTirumanjanam.
v Naivedhyam:
The world-famous "TirupatiLaddu" is given at
Tirumala Temple as prasadam. TirupatiLaddu had
got Geographical indication tag which entitles
only TirumalaTirupatiDevasthanams to make or sell it. Many other prasadams are also
offered to Venkateswara which will then be distributed to devotees, including
daddojanam (curd rice), puliohora (tamarind rice), vada and chakkera-pongali
(sweet pongal), miryala-pongali, Appam, Paayasam, Jilebi, Muruku, Dosa, seera
(kesari), Malhora. Free meals are given daily to the pilgrims. On Thursdays,
the Tirupavadaseva is conducted, where food items are kept as naivedyam to Lord
Venkateswara.
v Darshan
More
than 50,000 to 100,000 pilgrims have Darshan of preisding deity, Lord Venkateswara, while on special occasions and
festivals, like the annual Brahmotsavams,
the number of pilgrims visiting the temple shoots up to 500,000, making it the
most-visited holy place in the world. To manage the huge number of Devotees
visiting the temple, Tirumala TirupatiDevasthanam constructed two Vaikuntam
Queue Complexes: one in the year 1983 and the other in the year 2000. Vaikuntam
Queue complexes have rooms where Devotees can sit and wait until their turn for
Darshan. According to tradition, it is important for a devotee to have darshan
of Bhuvarahaswamy temple lying on the northern banks of Swami Pushkarini before
having Darshan of Lord Venkateswara in the main temple.
Recently,
the administration introduced a separate queue for pedestrian pilgrims. Free
but limited number of biometric tokens are issued for the pilgrims to access
this special queue. Tokens are provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
The pilgrims can worship Lord Venkateswara on the allotted time slots
issued in the token. There are two entry points for the foot-path pilgrims:
AlipiriMettu and SrivariMettu. AlipiriMettu is open round the clock, whereas
SrivariMettu is open from 9am - 6pm.
v Hair tonsuring
Many devotees have their head tonsured as "Mokku", an
offering to God. The daily amount of hair collected is over a ton. As per
legend, when Lord Venkateswara was hit on his head by a shepherd, a small
portion of his scalp became bald. This was noticed by Neela Devi, a Gandharva princess. She felt "such
an attractive face should not have a flaw". Immediately, she cut a portion
of her hair and, with her magical power, implanted it on his scalp. Lord
Venkateswara noticed her sacrifice. As hair is a beautiful asset of the female
form, he promised her that all his devotees who come to his abode would offer
their hair to him, and she would be the recipient of all the hair received.
Hence, it is believed that hair offered by the devotees is accepted by Neela
Devi. The hill, Neeladri, one of the seven hills, is named after her.
v Hundi (donation pot)
As per legend, it is believed that Srinivasa had to make
arrangements for his wedding. Lord Kubera credited money to Lord Venkateswara
(a form of the god Vishnu) for his marriage with Padmavathi. Srinivasa sought a
loan of one crore and 11.4 million (11,400,000) coins of gold from Kubera
and had Viswakarma, the divine architect, create heavenly surroundings in the
Seshadri hills. Together, Srinivasa and Padmavathi lived for all eternity while
Goddess Lakshmi, understanding the commitments of Lord Vishnu, chose to live in
his heart forever.In remembrance of this, devotees go to Tirupati to donate
money in Venkateswara's hundi (donation pot) so that he can pay it back to
Kubera. The hundi collections go as high as 22.5 million INR a day.
v Thulabaram
In the Thulabaram ritual, a devotee sits on a pan of a weighing balance and the other pan is filled with
materials greater than the weight of the devotee. Devotees usually offer sugar,
jaggery, tulsi leaves, banana, gold, coins. This is mostly performed with
newborn babies or children.
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