INTRODUCTION
Ma Annapurani is Aanandaparipurani (By the way of providing food, she gives happiness to us) and she is the food goddess, who contains very good qualities, Ma Thangapurani, the food goddess who owns golden treasure (Food mixed with pure love and affection) on her hands, Shantapurani, the food goddess who never gets angry, and she is very soft and gentle in nature. Alangarapurani, the food goddess, who likes to decorate herself with different, different flowers, different, different ornaments and with wonderful garments! Nityapurani, the food goddess who is permanent and omnipotent, Dharmapurani, the food goddess, who strictly follows the law of dharma, and she also wants us to follow it sincerely. Shivarani, the food goddess is the consort of Lord Shiva, and she is the queen for the entire world. She contains great powers, and her pictures must be affixed on the walls in the hall, and in the puja room on their homes, by the people who belong to Hinduism. Even we can keep Ma Annapurani photos in our bedrooms also, and there is no harm in doing like that! Once, I have seen a nice photo of Ma Annapurani in the shop of a Biriyani Centre, which was run by a person who belongs to other religion! Food centre owners, whether their establishments are small or big, must affix at least one photo of Ma Annapurani, on their premises, in order to show their love and gratitude towards the holy divine mother. A full-fledged photo of Ma Annapurani must cover her complete decorated form with lighted lamps, along with various types of food items which would be placed in front of her!
Apart from keeping several photos of Ma Annapurani on my puja room, I have also affixed one photo of Ma Annapurani on the wall, nearby my table, and I used to do my spiritual as well as my routine official work by having frequent looks on her, and I also used to check whether she delivers a pleasing smile on me! The holy mother Ma Annapurani holds the food bowl on one hand, which contains cooked rice, and a big spoon which contains some food, would be hold by her on her other tender hand, and I used to wonder how she does it, without showing any difficulty, since she holds those things permanently on her hands! Sometimes I used to even think whether I can take those things from her, and lift it on my hands at least for some time, in order to give some rest to the divine mother! She also sits on the Padmasana Posture, which is also considered to be a difficult thing for ordinary people like us, and with a smiling face, she blesses all of us!
We can perform puja to Ma Annapurani in our homes, since pujas performing to Ma Annapurna is considered as a very sacred act, since the divine holy mother provides food and water to each and every living being in the earth regularly, without leaving any gap, with great love and affection. As per Puranas, it was mentioned that once she has offered food to her consort Lord Shiva himself on his begging bowl. Ma Annapurani is also capable of removing our sins, difficulties and diseases, would free us from evil eye and from black magic, and she would even grant salvation to us.
Annapurna Devi is the goddess who provides food for all the living beings in the earth. The name Annapurna itself indicates as the giver of sufficient food to the people. Annapurna is an important goddess, since through her blessings only, we are able to eat sufficient food and we are sustaining in this world. She is an incarnation of Mata Parvati, the consort of Lord Shiva. The Annapurna Sahasranam praises her glory and describes her various names. Annapurna once offered food to Lord Shiva himself in order to make him to realize that she is the ultimate giver of the food to the entire UNIVERSE.
The famous Hotel Sri Annapurna Bhavans are situated in Kashi, Horanadu and also in few more places in India and it offers delicious, sumptuous and divine food at free of charge! In order to know more about it, please read the complete article!
The address of the Hotel situated in Kashi is
Sri Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi-221 001.
Phone :
+91-7080292930, +91-6393131608
Kashi Viswanath Temple in Varanasi is the famous temple for goddess Annapurna and daily thousands of devotees come to this place to worship the divine goddess and to get her blessings.
Kashi is the most auspicious and precious place on the earth and also it is one of the oldest cities. It is perpetually and continuously in existence on the earth with many kinds of living beings from the origin itself. People especially visit Kashi from all over India and abroad to have darsan of lord Viswanadha and goddess Annapurna Devi.
Seated on her golden throne, she fed and distributed food even to the starving gods and the hungry inhabitants of the earth. Annapurna gave her food as alms to Shiva and made him realize that as an Ultimate Brahman, Lord Shiva could overcome hunger, but not his followers.
The address of the Hotel situated in Horanadu is
Sri Horanadu Annapurna Devi Temple
Address: Mudigere, Taluk, Hornadu, Karnataka 577181
Annapoorneshwari Temple, situated at Horanadu in Karnataka, provides food to the devotees three times a day at free of cost. Apart from providing food, they are offering beverages like milk and coffee and giving shelters with blankets at free of cost.
The reason for mentioning the famous Annapurna Devi Temples situated in Kashi and Horanadu as Hotels, is to create attractiveness to the people to visit these famous Food goddess temples, since as per human tendency, most of the people including the middle class would be interested to have food only in luxurious hotels, even by paying huge amount for their food expenses, since most of us don’t prefer to have free food, especially in the temples, with the intention that our well-earned prestige and reputation would be lost!
“OM SRI MATA SHIVANNAPURNESWARI AMUDESWARI ANNAESWARI ANNAVISALAKSHI ADISHAKTI PARIPURANI ANNAPURNESWARI NAMAHA”
WRITTEN BY
R.HARISHANKAR