Kethu Navagraha Temple
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Kethu Navagraha Temple |
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06.00 AM - 01.00 PM 04.00 PM - 08.00 PM |
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Most renowned ketu navagraha temple and story behind the temple
In the Hindu mythology, raghu and kethu are considered as amongst the prominent deities and it is been said by many pundits and scholars that the movement of these planets can have some devastating impact on the things that may happen in future. There are several renowned Kethu-navagraha-temples all across India which is pretty popular amongst devotees and here are some brief illustration about some of the famous navagraha temples across several locations:
Ketu temple in Keezherupallam
This temple is amongst one of the very well known kethu-navagraha-temples which are dedicated to Sri Kethu who is amongst one of the popular navagraha deities. There is a common belief that this place is as sacred as the Kashi as it is considered to be amongst one of the seven holy places in India. This temple is dedicated to the Mercury and is considered amongst the 51 Shakti peethas that are present over various regions in India.
Location of the temple
The temple is located at around 57kms from the town of Kumbkakonam and nearest known place is poombukar which is 3km away from here
Timings
This temple is open from 6 A.M. in the morning to 12 in the noon and in the evenings it is open from 3:30 to 8:30 till night.
Special Deity: Mercury:
Of all the kethu-navagraha-temples, this temple is especially dedicated to mercury which is said to be the god for granting boons. Devotees come here and ask the god for good health, education, family bonding and other important matters.
Story behind this temple
There is also a room for the moon who is considered to be the father of mercury. This kethu navagraha temple also has a special shrine which many proclaim to be the place where the kethu worshipped Lord Shiva. It is also claimed that kethu repented for all his sins here and all those were got rid off by the Lord Shiva. That is why you will find the idol of kethu with a head in this temple which is very rare to find in the other kethu-navagraha-temples.
Various mythological books also proclaim that this was the place where the gods and asuras assembled to drink amrita which will make them immortal. But Lord Vishnu disguised himself as Mohini and cheated the asuras by giving them madira (alcohol) instead of the amrita. When one of the asuras got to know about this, he disguised as a god but Surya and Chandrama took not of this and complained about the matter to Lord Vishnu who tore the body of the asura into two pieces while he was trying to drink amritam.
After the impact, the body of the asura broke down but since he had already consumed amrita he survived that attack and from that day onwards the two parts of his body are known as Rahu and kethu.
Kethu is that part of asura which remain attached with the head and is heavily worshipped in various kethu-navagraha-temples to save from the cult of lord kethu.
Kethu Navagraha Temple
The temple is located at Keezhperumpallam (Kizhaperumpallam), near Tarangampadi in Nagapattinam District,TamilNadu.
Kethu navagraha temples presiding deities are Lord Naganathaswamy and his consort Soundaryanaki.
It is rare to find Ketu Bhagvan enshrined with head of a snake and body of an asura, which you can see here.
This place is also called Vanagiri.
At this sthala, he can be seen worshipping Naaganaadhaswami with his folded hands held high.
Keezhaperumpallam is one of the nine Navagraha sthalas located in the Cauvery Delta region dedicated to shadow planet Ketu.Both the Devas and Asuras wanted to get Amirtham from the Pargadal(Milk Ocean).Thirumal as in the shape of Mohini was distributing Amirtham to the Devas. At that time Swarvabanu took divine shape sitting between the sun and moon received the Amirtham and ate it. This was informed to Mohini by the sun and moon. Mohini was keeping a long sppon in her hand and she hit the Asuras head heavily. The Asuras head and the body were separated.The head part goes to Lord kethu. The devotees may get certain defects caused by Kethu as Nagathosam, Kethu thosam Marriage thosam, children thosam, snake thosam, defects of the former birth are redressed when they pray here.He is a fearless planet doing all good for the devotees belonging to his Rasi. People pray to planet Kethu for excellence in education and family prosperity.Those facing some adverse aspects of this planet, pray first to Lord Naganatha and Kethu with red flowers, offering horsegram rice Kollu sadham as nivedhana and light seven deepas.Pujas are performed to planet Kethu at Rahukalas and Yemakanda Kala times.