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This
holy place of worship surprises with many oddities and stands apart from several
shrines of eternal importance. The first and foremost oddity that greets the
yatris is - it is a topless, deorless and timeless temple, yet it is being
visited by unending streams of devotees since the dawn of religion. It is reckoned
as one of the four very popular saktisthalas. This is called Purnagiripeetha. Fantastic it sounds that this
Sakti-Peetha of immense glory lies
under a tree. There are found only a Trisul and Linga and these two represent
Mother Kali and are worshipped with great ardour. This Sakti-Peetha has in its
fore a very big tree seems holding an umbrella over the Mother eternally, with a
view to protecting the sacred objects from the onslaughts of weather. Although
some of its branches are fallen, it is serving the Mother like an ardent devotee
immersed in dhyana and aaraadhana. Strangely enough, the tree too bears no
fruit or flower. Does absorption finds time to attend to such trivial things?
Ah! what a dedication from a voiceless vriksha! It is more than a rational being
who boasts of steadfast devotion, although allowing his mind to roam about
during meditation.
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