Anantha Padmanabhaswamy temple door history
The secret behind the last door in the Anantha Padmanabhaswamy temple
What is behind the final door of the temple dedicated to Anantha Padmanabhaswamy?
The Anantha Padmanabhaswamy Temple has been around for
generations, but it wasn't until 2011 that it gained attention after the
Supreme Court ordered the temple's six secret chambers to be opened.
Thiruvananthapuram is home to the temple dedicated to
Anantha Padmanabhaswamy. The temple is a duplicate of the Kanyakumari
District's Adikesava Perumal shrine. It is among the wealthiest Hindu temples
worldwide. Situated atop the serpent Adisheshan in the perpetual yogic state of
"Anantha Shayanam," is the principal deity Vishnu. The temple is
supervised by Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma, the nominal Maharaja of Travancore,
who has been dubbed "Sree Padmanabhadasa," the slave of Lord Padmanabha.
Padmanabha Swamy lies on an Adi Sesha (snake) in the sanctum sanctorum. The
five heads of the serpent are oriented inward, signifying introspection. The
hands of Padmanabha Swamy rest atop a Shiva linga. The gods of prosperity and
fortune, Sridevi and Bhudevi,earth are located next to Vishnu. Via the lord's
navel, the lotus-seated Lord Brahma appears. There are 12,000 saligramas in the
god. It is reported that these saligramas originated in Nepal beside the
Gandaki River. "Katusarkara yogam" is applied to the idol Padmanabha
Swamy, acting as a sort of plaster to keep it clean.
Thiruvananthapuram, which means "The City of Lord
Ananta" in Malayalam, is the name of the temple dedicated to
Padmanabhaswamy. This shrine is mentioned in a number of Hindu texts, including
the Mahabharata, the Brahma, Matsya, Varaha, Skanda, Padma, Vayu, and Bhagavata
Puranies. The literature of the Sangam Period, which spans from 500 B.C. to 300
A.D., makes multiple references to the Temple. According to one of the temple
records, Divakara muni, a tulu brahmin, constructed the temple on the 964th day
after the start of the Kaliyuga (at the onset of Kaliyuga in Parashurama
Kshetra, the tulunad brahmins means Sthanika tulu brahmins). The temple is one
of Vaishnavism's 108 main Divya Desams, or "Holy Abodes," and In the
Divya Prabandha, is exalted. This shrine is praised by the Divya Prabandha as
one of the 13 Divya Desams in Malai Nadu. The "Moolasthanam" of the
temple is thought to be the Ananthapuram Temple in Kasargod.
The temple's hidden chambers are one of its greatest
secrets. The temple owns tremendous money, jewels, and treasures that are kept
in these hidden vaults. In 2011, the Supreme Court granted a PIL's request to
access the secret chambers and dispatched a team of seven people to
the archeology division and the fire department, to unlock
the temple's hidden chambers and examine the objects stored within. Five of the
six chambers were accessible. Vaults A, B, C, D, E, and F were their names.
When the vaults were unlocked, they revealed diamond jewelry, gold-plated
cutlery, weapons, gold idols, gold elephant idols, 500-kilogram diamond
necklaces measuring 18 feet in length, and sacks full of gold coins from
various countries.
Nevertheless, Vault B "Kallarai" is not a part of
the Temple Treasury and has a strong connection to Lord Sree Padmanabha. The
furthest ante-chamber of Kallara B was opened in 1931 by decree of Maharaja Sri
Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma. The Supreme Court-sent team chose not to
access the inner room, which may contain a Srichakram, a Padmanabha idol, and
other priceless items. It is thought that Lord Ugra Narasimha of Thekkedom
guards Vault B. On Kallara B, there is an image of a serpent that warns anyone
opening it to beware. In August 2011, during a four-day Ashtamangala
Devaprasnam, the inner chamber of Kallara B was proclaimed to be forbidden
area.
It is thought that saints of King Marthanda Varma from the
16th century used "naga bandham" or "naga paasam" to guard
the hidden vault B. Therefore, the only person who can open it is a saint who
knows the "garuda mantra." Any effort to forcefully burst down the
door will have disastrous results for the temple or the nation. It is stated
that a strong yogi or saint may instantly open the door by reciting the Garuda
Mantra; no additional human effort is required.
In her book "Travancore: A Guide Book for the
Visitor," Emily Gilchrist Hatch, who visited Trivandrum in 1933, describes
the opening of the Vault in 1931 as well as an earlier, unsuccessful attempt to
do the same in 1908. When the State required more money, she writes, "it
was thought expedient to open these chests and use the wealth they contained
about 25 years ago." "A group of people" gathered together and
made an effort to use torches to penetrate the vaults. They "fled for
their lives" after discovering that they were "infested with
cobras."
Consequently, Pushpanjali Swamiyar, the highest spiritual authority of the Padmanabha Swamy Temple, rejected Gopal Subramanium's appeal to the Supreme Court in April 2014, asking for the opening of vault B, citing fears of a disastrous impact on the land
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