Donavur and Yerwadi are other tiny hamlets located close to Valliyoor where there is a predominant Muslim population. Bus facilities are aplenty to reach Valliyoor from Nagercoil / Tirunelveli. Some trains do halt at Valliyoor (like the Kanyakumari express). Nagercoil and Thiruvananthapuram are also located close to Valliyoor. Valliyoor is a 1-hour drive from Tirunelveli. Tirunelveli is however the closest railway station. Nearest Railway Stations are Tirunelveli Junction / Kovilpatti/ Vanchi Maniyachi. But we can stay connected with them through our rituals and kula deiva poojas which they themselves had conducted.Valliyoor can be reached from Bangalore, Chennai, Madurai,Mumbai. There is no way we can meet them in person. Our ancestors and forefathers are long gone. They must insist that their children (whichever location they are in) to visit the kula deiva temples and do whatever is needed. They can send their contributions to archanai/ abhisekams.
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Yet they also have access to digital media which is indeed a great blessing.Įven those suffering from ailments and unable to physically go to their ancestral villages can still be in touch with their kuladeivams. Priests in rural areas, often, are simple people still unpolluted by urban air that is filled with avariciousness. They are accessible on Whatsapp and can reach the temple on time thanks to their driving skills. Today, temple priests are quite savvy and digitally enabled. Praying to all other gods except kula deivam is like keeping your parents in the old age home and doing social service for senior citizens. If kula deivam is pleased with us, we will be blessed with what we want – good health, prosperity, abundance of peace and positive energy. So, when we do the kula deiva pooja, it is a given that our ancestors and forefathers and their blessings would be there to guide us. It is as though we are joining a queue where our ancestors have already stood. The negatives get balanced out by positives. But when they all propitiate the kula deivam, there is a great amount of synergy. There may be people who have done a lot of good and there may be people who have committed many sins.
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Most of us do not know the names of our grandmothers and great grandmothers and their husbands. This has been the practice in our communities. Kula-deiva pooja enables this “vamsavriddhi”. Children are born, raised and married off and then the vamsavriddhi continues. When a girl gets married into our families, there is a change in her “gothram”. What is it that pulls us towards our village where we were born and grew up before employment opportunities from elsewhere beckoned us?
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Why is it that we are unable to forget our ancestral homes in our village?Ĥ. There are so many hotels and resorts all around – but why is our home so special to us?ģ.
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Then what is so special about kula deivam?Ģ. Deities and temples are there in all cities, towns and villages across India. Here is an extract from a real life experience of a devotee when he interacted with Kanchi Maha periyava:ġ. There is no readymade solution to this – however following the rituals of ancestors can, to a great extent, redeem us of the guilt that we are besieged with when we ignore customs and traditions. Nothing can be more painful for parents to see their children suffering from any ailment or their married children unable to give them the pleasure of playing with their grandchildren. Then they face issues in lives which make them scurrying around… Parents get older, feel debilitated, suffer from loneliness pangs and lose the drive to do a venkatachalapathy samaradanai or sumangali prarthanai or kula deiva pooja. Sons and daughters moving to foreign countries for job/ higher education is a common trend now. Kula Deiva Pooja – Why is This More Relevant TodayĪs more and more joint families give way to nuclear families, many of the time-tested traditions and rituals in Tam Brahmin families are also at the risk of getting diluted.