{"id":12265,"date":"2014-01-18T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12265"},"modified":"2014-01-18T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T11:54:41","slug":"selling-books-like-hot-cakes-during-thaipusam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12265","title":{"rendered":"Selling Books Like Hot-Cakes during Thaipusam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Submitted by Jai Sita Rani Devi Dasi, source: http:\/\/www.iskconmalaysia.com\/profiles\/blogs\/opportunity-to-distribute-books-during-thaipusam<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nKUALA LUMPUR – Headed by book distributor stalwarts, Ravilocana and Tattvavit dasa, devotees in Kuala Lumpur took the opportunity to distribute books during one of the biggest Hindu event in Malaysia, Thaipusam. This event is celebrated once a year in Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur. The  Batu Caves are situated thirteen kilometers (seven miles) north of the capital city Kuala Lumpur. They are the sacred place for the Hindu\u2019s in Malaysia. They consist of three main caves and a number of smaller ones. The caves are made of limestone and 400 meters long and 100 meter high. They were discovered in 1892.
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\nAt your arrival you will be greeted by lots of monkeys. They are going for your peanuts and bananas, which  you can buy in several shops, before you climb up to the caves. You have to climb 272 steps, which will lead you to the religious and magnificent Batu Caves.\n<\/p>\n

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\n. This particular star is at its highest point during the festival. The festival commemorates the occasion when gave Murugan Vel”spear” so he could vanquish the evil demon Soorapadman
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\nSince early morning, thousands of Hindus converged at Batu Caves where the Sri Subramaniar temple is located, to partake in the religious festival to express gratitude, fulfill a vow or do penance. As many as 800,000 devotees and other visitors  throng the caves. As a form of penance or sacrifice, many of them carry kavadis (literally, \u201cburden,\u201d such as a pitcher or jug). These are large, brightly decorated frameworks, usually combined with various metal hooks and skewers which are used to pierce the skin, cheeks and tongue.\n<\/p>\n

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\nAmong the sea of people were foreign tourists who watched with interest and captured snapshots of the colourful kavadi procession and other features of the festival. By doing this penance they expect some favours from their Gods. \n<\/p>\n

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\nAt the base of the hill, there are three caves with statuary and mural depiction of  the scenes from Ramayana, Mahabharata and lives of renowned Tamil poet, Valluvar.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe three caves are known as Ramayan Cave, Art Gallery  and the Valluvar Kottam. The depictions are spectacularly graphic. The Ramayan Cave presents a concise but comprehensive narration of Lord Rama\u2019s history.\n<\/p>\n

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By Jai Sita Rani Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Headed by book distributor stalwarts, Ravilocana and Tattvavit dasa, devotees in Kuala Lumpur took the opportunity to distribute books during one of the biggest Hindu event in Malaysia, Thaipusam. This event is celebrated once a year in Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}