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POOJAS
This
shrine has built up very many commendable traditions and introduced several
changes over the years. Conducting special pujas on Tuesdays and Fridays is one among many attracting people in
their thousands. The temple wears festive
appearance on these two days every week. The solace it confers on the visitor is
infinitely great and hence some made their visit a regular feature and routine work. The shopping arcade in that
little temple village with restuarants and
snack bars together with rest houses made it a mini-paradise for devotees, and a
joyous picnic spot for the modern west turned minds. Of the periodical
festivals, the Sarannavaafras draw people in lakhs. Why, the whole city of Mysore goes gay for 10 days, and
the gaiety, festivity, relgiocity touching the
meridian reign supreme, and hardly one finds a parallel in the whole of Punya Bharat. Seeing is believing, and
believing elevates and exhilirates; for, the
creative faculty unable to grasp its elusive charms, ceases expression to drink
in with eyes all the splendour, overflowing the whole city with exhibitions, entertainment etc. A visit alone
gratifies the sensory organs and no reading
substitutes it. The Mysore Dasara far surpasses the celebrations of this kind
anywhere in India.
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