Prominent politicians in celestial settings of Sripuram

As you venture out on your path of spirituality, you are lost in the cacophony of the chaos of the world. The visit to Golden Temple of Sripuram will make you embark on a spiritual journey to make you believe in the joyful fruits of your existence. It will bestow peace and open windows to new perspectives of your existence. The prayer will provide direction to life. The edifice of temple pillars of Sripuram are built on base of faith and hope where no negativity will ever work against it. No toxicity can work to diminish its peaceful existence. You will feel peace within yourself and find self in the solitude in this sacred place of worship.

Those who understand the eternal blessings which emanate from the Golden Temple of Sripuram know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult to receive those celestial blessings from the Divine Narayani. The Divine preaches that the spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be just to keep moving forward with love in your heart.

As scribe a devotee of heavenly Narayani since 2006 while bidding adieu to Sripuram for first time was emotional with a heavy heart and welled up eyes, his thoughts conjure up noble feelings and thoughts that my favoured temple is a humble heart. As the scribe turned back to take leave, sighs, and says, “The time has come to turn my heart into a temple of fire.” As the car picks up speed to head towards Chennai’s Kamraj Airport, the scribe gazing skywards muses, “The temple bell of the Sripuram Golden Temple has stopped but I still hear the sound coming from the seraphic sanctum sanctorum’s dome and smell the fragrance of the flowers, offered at the lotus feet of Amma.”

To put in right perspective the essence of the teachings of the Divine Narayani, the scribe falls back on the ancient Greek mythology. The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine) to represent creative power; the opening lines of both The Iliad and The Odyssey begin with calls to them. These nine goddesses, or muses, were the recipients of prayers from writers, engineers, and musicians. Even the great minds of the time, like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, built shrines and visited temples dedicated to their particular muses. Right now, under our very secular noses, we honor these beliefs in our language, as the etymology of words like museum (“place of the muses”) and music (“art of the muses”) come from the Greek heritage of ideas as superhuman forces.

However, scribe’s Divine Narayani in a remote hamlet of Malaikodi decided to build a spiritual oasis at Sripuram to propitiate Devi Mahalakshmi. The pilgrimage to the sanctum sanctorum of Sripuram is soaked in divinity. Those who understand the eternal blessings which emanate from the Golden Temple of Sripuram know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult to receive those celestial blessings from the Divine Narayani. While within the temple complex, one feels being on the journey of awakening and passionately invokes the interest and support in the heart of every individual and the listener of the spiritual discourse of the Divine Narayani becomes ecstatic.

Sri Lakshmi Narayani Golden Temple is a complex inside the Sripuram spiritual park is situated at the foot of a small range of green hills at Malaikodi, Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The Maha Kumbhabhishekam or consecration of the temple and its chief deity, Sri Lakshmi Narayani, the goddess of wealth, was held on 24 August 2007, and devotees from all religions and backgrounds are welcomed with open arms at this holy place of worship.

The striking feature of Sripuram is the Lakshmi Narayani temple whose Vimanam and Ardha Mandapam is covered with pure gold, housing the deity Sri Lakshmi Narayani (wife of Vishnu Narayana). The temple is located on 40 hectares (100 acres) of land and has been constructed by the Vellore-based charitable trust, Sri Narayani Peedam, headed by its spiritual leader Sri Sakthi Amma.

The temple with its gold covering, has sophisticated work done by artisans specializing in temple art using gold. Every minute detail was manually created, including converting the gold bars into gold foils and then mounting the foils on copper. Gold foil from 9 layers to 10 layers has been mounted on the etched copper plates. Every detail in the temple art has been attributed to the Vedas.

Sripuram’s spiritually designed star-shaped path is located in the middle of the lush green landscape, covering over 1.8 km. As one walks along the ‘starpath’, the divine messages of celestial Narayani evoking elysian feelings line up along the approach leading to main part of sanctum sanctorum.

It was cosmic setting of Sripuram Golden Temple to have attracted from prince to pauper from 2007 onwards. The prominent political leaders who have made beeline to the Malaikodi located an unique and supreme place of worship are Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from small township of Vadnagar; APJ Abul Kalam, ex-President from Rameshwaram; Ram Nath Kovind, former President from Paraunkh village in the Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh; M. Venkaiah Naidu, from Chavatapalem village, Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh; K Karunanidhi from village Thirukkuvalai in Tamil Nadu; Surjit Singh Barnala from Begpur Village in Ateli Tehsil, Haryana, Banwarilal Purohit from Nagpur, K Stalin from Chennai, Jagdish Mukhi from Daajal, Jampur district of Pakistan & then Janak Puri of Delhi, Ravindra Narayana Ravi, from Patna, and other political leaders from the adjoining states have been coming to Sripuram over the years.

Sripuram has left a lasting impression on the heart & mind of Ram Nath Kovind, former President, Republic of India that he took time out of his hectic schedule to pay obeisance to sacred Narayani Amma and inaugurate the much-needed facility of cardiac, kidney & liver transplant with latest techniques in the Sri Narayani Hospital & Research Centre. Kovind holds divine Narayani in high esteem as he came for Amma Jayanti on January 3, 2024, to take part in the celebrations even after retiring from the podium post of President of India. These men of standing in the country reckoning came to Sripuram with reverence to bow reverentially to holy Narayani and left pondering, “If one wishes suffering not to happen to the people and the earth, it begins with a kind of heart.”