Hours and Meals
Hours
The temples are open sunrise to sundown every day, 365 days a year. Access may be curtailed if there is an event or if there is any repair or maintenance work in progress.
Meals and events
Food, by way of prasad from Guruji, is made available in dining area. We joyously make our simple, homemade meal available to all yatris on weekends from 12:30pm – 2pm. On weekdays, please give us at least one day’s prior notice if you would like to have a meal. If visiting during weekdays and seeking to have meal, please send email to crm@siddhachalam.org. Meals are made possible through donation of annual and life tithis. Please click the “Book a Tithi” button below if interested in a tithi.
If visiting in groups, whether during weekdays or weekends, the appropriate form needs to be filled in advance. At least one weeks’s notice is required to consider requests for group meals or events. All requests are subject to written approval by management.
Please be mindful that we have a lean staff and handful of overworked volunteers. Please cooperate. Thank you!
Keshi said to Gautam: “Whom do you call foes?” Hearing these words of Keshi, Gautam replied: “O sage! The first foe is one’s unconquered soul. Add to this the four passions of anger, conceit, deceit and greed, and the five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. Vanquishing all these ten, I move about righteously.” Kumar-shraman Keshi said: “Gautam, you are endowed with excellent wisdom. You have removed my doubt…” Uttaradhyayana Sutra, 23:3- 39. The conversation between Sharman Keshi, follower of Bhagwaan Parsvanath, and Gautam Swami, the ganadhara of Bhagwaan Mahavira.