Golden Temple Vellore

I got a chance to visit The Lakshmi Narayani Temple which is a golden temple located in the spiritual town SRIPURAM in ThirumalaiKkodi which is located about 7km from Vellore district of Tamilnadu. This is a must visit temple at least once in life time.

We drove on Bangalore – Chennai Highway which is one of the best highways I have seen so far. The distance was 220Km from Bangalore and we reached the temple with in 3 Hrs. After purchasing the tickets we entered the queue complex, as usual mobiles and cameras are not allowed inside the temple. We left all our belongings including the shoes in the car. We really had hard time parking the car as the distance from car parking to queue complex is about half kilometer. I felt there was less security for the temple, as the security personals were not checking in a proper way.
I was really surprised to see the exterior designed outside the temple. The surroundings of the temple were greenery. One unique design was the path way to reach the temple. This was designed in such a way that visitors can reach the Vimanam or the sanctum sanctorum only after going through a star-shaped pathway; this is the shape of Sri Chakra. When you start walking through this path way you will see boards which shows messages from Vedas on both the sides. You also get a chance to shop items related to pooja and Goddess Narayani during this path.

As soon as you enter the main temple you will surely feel a kind of positive vibes which will increase your spiritual thinking, The Idle of the goddess Narayani was really amazing, she was fully decorated with flowers and gold. The Vimanam and Ardha Mandapam have been coated with gold both interior and exterior. This Temple as been built at a cost of 300Cr which is located in a sprawling 100Acre Land with 1,500 Kg of gold sheets used.

The Vimanam (Main temple) or the sanctum sanctorum of the Goddess Narayani is surrounded by a pond. This pond has nice water. People going for Darshan throw money, Debit/Credit Cards and also visiting cards to this water. We purchased 100Rs Fast Darshan tickets, and it took 45min for the Darshan. One thing I like very much was the prasadam given to us. This was really tasteful. We were also given Pongal and good thing about this prasadam is, it will be HOT through out the day.
If you really want to enjoy the temple view, you have to visit the temple after 6PM in the evening, the darshan timings is from 8AM to 8PM. This is the time were the powerful sodium lights will be turned ON. The Temple looks like heaven under these lights. The light rays which falls on the gold plates increases the brightness of the temple which is more eye candy to watch.