Char Dham yatra in RR nagar within a drive of 30mins in Bangalore

October 05, 2020

Past few days we have a exhausting days at work due to hectic schedule and luckily our release is done just before the long weekend. The first day of pass by as I was just dozing off, thanks to the sleepless nights at work. The entire second day vanished in the deep cleaning of the house, thanks to Carona.:P The third day we were very lazy and just don't want to do anything but getting glued to the sofa chill out watching some movies, but after half a day we got bored and suddenly planned to go somewhere. For us always the adhoc trips works better.

So it's already 2PM and we quickly got ready and explore some nearby places and finally zeroed on Omkar Hills. While exploring I have added 3 more temples near by so that we can complete char Dham yatra within 25Kms radius from my house with in a drive of 40mins. That's sounds an awesome plan. As we have just 3 more hours left in the day and we have to cover and 4 places. Let the chase begins. (IPL season effect, please don't mind ;)). We quickly feed lunch to our kid and packed some snacks for him and got ready and we started around 3:30PM from our home.

Here is our route map:

https://goo.gl/maps/zWJTRHHVWFaRK4Ne8

First we reached the Shrunga Giri Sri Shanmukha Swamy Temple, This unique Temple is situated on a hillock which is 240′ from the ground level. The total height of the temple is 123′ of which the six faced Gopuram itself is 62′ (including 19′ up to neck). The Crystal Dome above the Gopuram has a height of 42′, with 33′ Diameter and 105′ Circumference. The six faces of Lord Shanmukha are 6″ thick concrete moulded structures. Just opposite to that there is karimariamma temple, that is also beautiful. We had darshan at both the temples and moved to our next destination

Shri Nimishamba Devi Temple Temple is one of most beautiful temples in south India; especially Bangalore. The calm and cool atmosphere at the temple is especially noticeable and make the devotees to get heavenly feelings. This temple is constructed with red laterite stone in the traditional Parashurama Kshetra architecture style.You can not see such a rare and serene temple in the heart of a busy city.

The third temple is raja rajeshwari temple and this is also a beautiful temple. The eye-catching temple, built in the Dravidian style of architecture, has five Rajagopuras. However, the main attraction is the six-feet tall, inspiring stone image of Divine Mother Sri Raja Rajeshwari, also worshipped as Mother Sri Jnanakshi. The Temple of Sri Jnanakshi Rajarajeshwari is a magnificent edifice in pure granite. Verily a masterpiece among the recent monuments in the whole of Karnataka. It is an excellent specimen of Dravidian religious architecture, and is built strictly in accordance with the agama prescriptions. With its finely carved pillars (Sthambha) and beautifully dressed walls (Bhitti) it presents a charming spectacle. But there is a huge queue and people are not following some social distance, we are scared to get into the queue so we had the darshan from outside and left to next temple with lot of disappointment

The next and the last destination is omkar hills. Dwadasha Jyotirlinga Temple at Omkara Ashrama is a Religious & Spiritual place on the Omkar Hills - which is one of the highest, glorious spots in Bangalore. The Ashrama campus has several temples - namely Sri Dwadasha Jyotirlinga Temple, Sri Matsya Narayana Temple, Sri Nagadevata Temple,Sri Vana Durga Temple, Sri Ganapathi Temple and Sri Munishwara Temple - and a giant tower clock which is one of the biggest clock in the world.

The temple also has the references for all the religions. Universal Brotherhood and mutual respect are the core teachings of every religion. The Vedas proclaim “Ekam sat, vipra bahudha vadanthi – truth is one; sages proclaim it differently”. All mystics speak the same truth but in different languages and different manners.