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Why Tirumala Sri Venkateswara Swamy Footwear Is Eroding

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Why Tirumala Sri Venkateswara Swamy footwear is eroding? Whether you observed Tirumala Sri Venkateswara Swamy footwear or not they are big in size. You might also hear they are getting eroded along with time. People and priests believe that Sri Venkateswara Swamy has abundant love towards her wife Alamelu Manga Devi. After the temple is being closed, the lord wears his footwear and get down from seven hills to Alamelu Manga Devi and returns back to his position by the time of suprabhatam. On which side should wife reside along with his husband? Many of us believe that the wife should always be towards the left side of her husband. But our sastras doesn’t insist it happen always. During the time of performing pooja or while you are offering to someone then wife needs to be towards the left of her husband. But during ‘kanyadhan’ and ‘vigraha pratishta’ wife needs to be on the right side of the husband. According to Sastras, during the creation of human beings, Lord

Importance of Vadapappu during festivals

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Why do we do vadappapu during festivals? Normally during festivals, we cook a variety of sweets and snacks. Due to heavy sugar levels and oil content in these recipes, our stomach struggles to digest what all we eat. Vadapappu and panakam (a drink made from jaggery) will sooth our stomach and helps in digestion. This is the reason why we offer it to god and consume. What is the rule of the matching bride and groom? According to Vedas, before a match is considered we need to check the hierarchy of father to 7 levels and hierarchy of mother to 6 levels. We need to perform a marriage between the two parties who don’t have any blood relationship. Also, we need to take care of ‘gotras’ where marriages should never be held in same gotras. In other words, marriage is a process of taking bride in presence of both the family members upon an agreement that groom shares all his happiness and obeys all kinds of Dharma’s equally