ANANTHEESWARAN TEMPLE
A Siva Temple located
at Chidambaram
Lord : Adhiswarar
Consort : Soundaranayagi
Pooja : Raja kurukkal (Sathyanarayanan)
Location : Chidambaram - 608 001
YOGENA CITTASYA PADENA VACAM
MALAM SARIRASYA CA VAIDYAKENA
YOPAKAROTTAM PRAVARAM MUNINAM
PATHANJALIM PRANJALIRANATOSMI
- Salutation
with folded hands are to Maharishi Pathanjali, the renowned amongst sages, who
removed the impurity of mind through yoga, speech by grammar and of the body by
Ayurveda.
Sage
Pathanjali was found near an ant hill; He was supposed to have appeared through
a hole in the ground (Pilathuvaram). Raised by foster parents (the God Siva
& Goddess Parvathi themselves), learnt yoga sutra from Adhi Yogi Siva
Himself. Pathanjali gave Yoga to the world in the form of aphorisms- A single
line self contained sentence, a total 196 in number.
Pathanjali’s Yoga Sutra is divided into four chapters
1.
Samadhi Padam - Ecstasy - 51 aphorisms
2.
Sadhana Padam - Path -
55 aphorisms
3.
Vibudhi Padam - Pavers - 56 aphorisms
4.
Kaivalya Padam - Liberation - 34 aphorisms
Pathanjali is contemporary of sage vyagrahapathar (also an
exponent of Yoga an oldent worshiper of Adhi Yogi Siva)
Both the
sages had been interned at Thirupattur near Thiruchirappalli - Past
Samayapuram.
Thirupattur is on the Tiruchy- Chennai National Highway.
ANOTHER VERSION:
Pathanjali’s Father : Athiri Maharishi
Mother: Kornika.
Books Authored by Saga Pathanjali
Yogasanam - Yoga Sutras
Mahabashyam - Grammer
Savakam - Ayurvedam.
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