KANYAKUMARI:- The Last stone of india

This blog about kanyakumari. The place of devi kanyakumari, the name kanyakumari is combination of two words kanya and kumari, kanya means girl and kumari means virgin. kanyakumari mean a virgin teenaged girl. this place is witness of purity of love and dedication of devi kanyakumari for lord shiva and witness of woman power.

According to a legend,the asuras got supremacy over the devas, leading to adharma, ignorance and injustice. banasura the king of demons, was playing havoc,driving away devas from heaven and meting out cruel punishments to saint and rishis. unable to stand the agony,mother earth  sought the help of lord vishnu, the protector of the universe. the lord advised that the devas should propitiate parashakti, who alone capable of destroying banasura. according, the devas performed yagna to propitiate the goddess, who appeared before them and promised to annihilate the evil forces headed by banasura. she came to kanyakumari in the form of virgin girl and began her penance long time and she stand on one leg. Meanwhile Lord Shiva fell in love with her and arrangements for the marriage were made in the midnight a particular day. Now the Devine sage Narada realised that their marriage would destroy the chances of annihilating Banusura because he could be killed only by a virgin. When Lord Shiva was on his way to Kanyakumari from Suchindrum at Valukkamparai 5 kms south of Suchindram, Sage Narada assumed the form of a cock and crowed falsely heralding the break of dawn. Thinking that the auspicious time for the marriage was past, Lord Shiva returned disappointed. The Goddess too decided to remain virgin after that. Then, when Banusura attempted to win the Goddess by force, she killed him with her Chakragudha, and relieved the sufferings of Devas. Then she resumed her penance and remained virgin. She ever-dedicated to Lord Shiva and continues to perform austerities to this day with the hopes that he will one day unite with her. 

 The Kanya Kumari Temple is located on those southern shores. The teenaged goddess is shown holding a māla, performing eternal austerities as she waits for Lord Shiva to come. According to the temple’s sthala purana, the idol was installed by Lord Parasurama, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. One specialty of the idol is her diamond nose ring, which sparkles gloriously. The temple’s legend says that the nose ring was obtained from a king cobra and that light reflects off it so brightly that once an ancient mariner mistook it for a lighthouse. Sailing his ship towards the beacon, he wrecked upon the Kanya Kumari rocks. In order to prevent such a tragedy from happening again, the eastern door to the temple’s sanctum sanctorum is only opened on five special occasions throughout the year. 

Kanyakumari is very intresting place and calm place, there people is very sweet and help full.last time when i travelled  kanyakumari in the march that time weather is good not much hot and i am so lucky i found very good hotel from where view is very good. every morning i saw beautiful sun rise with my lovely friend and in the evening we sit on balcony and saw sea, nature and talk, meditate amazing sensation there. the food was good.  

interesting  places in kanyakumari:-

• Suchindaram temple.
• Thanumalayan temple suchindram. 
• Vivekanand Rock memorial.
• Our lady of ransom church.
• Mahatma gandhi Mandapam
• Vattakottai Fort
• Trusea sangam
• sunrise point
• sunset point.

Vivekanand rock memorial:

Vivekanand rock memorial situated on the last stone of INDIA. this place have amazing power,power of make calm your brain. this place show the power of meditation. views fro this place is amazing.

The Swami Vivekananda Rock Memorial is a fitting tribute to one of the greatest proponents of Vedanta- a key Hindu philosophy that aims to the eternal truth of life. Although the idea was mooted in 1962 to coincide with the birth centenary of Swami Vivekananda, the monument was built only around 1970. 

It was on this rock that the Swami Vivekananda meditated before leaving for Chicago to address the World Religious Conference in 1892. There’s also an interesting story that goes like this.

After visiting the Kanyakumari Amman temple, Swami Vivekananda stood on the seashore gazing at two rocks that stood some furlongs away. He was seized by a sudden desire to visit these rocks. Legend has it that one of these rocks was the exact place where the Goddess Bhagawathi Amman stood in penance. As proof of this belief, there’s a small projection on the rock that resembles a human foot. In fact, the rock has been called Sri Pada Parai (in Tamil) since Puranic times; roughly translated, it means the rock with the Goddess’s feet.  Since he did not have money to pay for the boatmen (to ferry him to the rock), he swam all the way to the rock. He sat in meditation for three days and nights with nothing but the ocean for company. Being an ardent devotee of Kali, it was only to be expected of him to choose this place. It was here that Swami Vivekananda realized the need to reawaken India from its spiritual ignorance.

In Vivekanand rock memorial have meditation room where visitor do meditation.

amazing facts about kanyakumari :

•  It is only place in india where we can see both sunrise and the sunset.
• The gandhi memorial building is built in such way that the light falls on the base of the memorial on october 2 ( birth day of gandhi).
•  The east gate of the kanyakumari remain closed and it will be opened only duringthe festival season. it is believed that the nose ring of kanyakumari devi can be visible  too far from the sea, which caused several accident after confused being the lighthouse.
• The special day called  chitra poornima will have the rise of moon immediately after sun sets.
• Kanyakumari is southern tip of india where the three seas meet, bay of bangal,indian sea and arabian sea.
• Kanyakumari temple is only temple in tamil nadu where the pooja held in kerla style.
• The 133 feet thiruvalluvar statue represents 133 chapters of thirukkural written by thiruvalluvar