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.