Puja at Siddhachalam Temples
Siddhachalam is an ideal place to perform pujas. Our daily schedule is as follows:
7:00 a.m. Temples Open
7:00 – 8:00 a.m. Abhishek, Ashtprakari Puja, Aarti & Mangal Devo (Main Temple)
8:30 – 10:30 a.m. Abhishek, Nityaniyam Puja, Shantidhara*, Aarti & Mangal Devo (Parsvnath Temple)
1:30 p.m. Mangal Devo (Main Temple)**
2:30 p.m. Mangal Devo (Parsvanath Temple)**
7:30 p.m. Aarti & Mangal Devo (Main Temple)
* Only Saturdays
** Only on weekends, except that on Sundays held at 12:30 p.m. following Sangathith Puja
All timings adjust to rising and setting of sun
Devotees interested in performing morning abhishek-puja should contact Siddhachalam in advance. Suggested donation for morning abhishek-puja is $101 per family (Siddhachalam reserves the right to invite ghee bolis on certain dates).
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.