KUDAJADRI MOUNTAIN, CHITRAMOOLA CAVE, ADI SHANKARACHARYA 2000 BC – CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

KODACHADRI SARVAJNANA  PEEDAM,  GANAPATI GUHA ,  MOOKAMBIKA TEMPLE,  SAUPARNIKA RIVER – CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Three days ago, my wife suddenly expressed her desire to climb Kudajadri mountain.  It is a calling, you don’t make plans in advance.

So I told her to keep an alarm clock so that we can start off early the next day.

Now what is Kudajadri mountain?

This mountain is east of Mookambika temple at Kollur. Since the past 4000 years this mountain is very popular with people from Kerala, due to its association with a Malayali saint by the name of Adi Shankaracharya . 

He is probably the last person on this planet to have 12 strand DNA .  He mastered the Vedas by the age of 6. This shows he is a re-incarnation, as Vedas take a whole lifetime to master.

Kudajadri mountain is shaped like a pyramid.  I took some samples of rock while on the mountain , and I can tell you that it contains precious minerals.  

I will NOT disclose it here , as the next thing you know will be that our Italian Catholic Queen bee has leased out this mountain to some mining company owned by the Vatican Church.

If you think I am talking though my hat, punch into google search BAUXITE MINING , NAXAL MENACE VADAKAYIL. 

Here Vedanta mining  company,  who “lobbied” up all our politicians and media, is owned by the Church of England. 

On the way to the top of this mountain is a cave known as Ganapati guha.

Above: Ganapati cave . See the tunnel on the left hand side, which leads to Chitramoola cave as well as Mookambika Temple on the plains.

There is a tunnel in this cave which goes all the way to Mookambika temple, and also to Chitramoola cave, where Adi Shankaracharya meditated.

In the ancient days this tunnel was filled with water. This mountain with its metals and minerals with this strategic water filled tunnel causes the mountain peak to emit ORGONE life energy. 

The principle of the artificial pyramids in Egypt , built by Maharishis from Kerala is also  pretty much the same.  Orgone is associated with high concentration of negative ions. Underground living water is the accumulator of ground orgone. 

The peak of the mountain emits scalar waves. This is exactly where the Sarvajnana Peedam right on the apex of Kudajadri mountain is situated.

I am sure that this profound explanation will NOT be available in any book or Internet post on this planet.

While climbing this mountain, initially the going will be tough.  Later you just flow along.  

You can use a Kirlean camera and check out your own aura before you climb this mountain and after you get down sweating , with your legs aching . Seeing will be believing.  

This is the reason why even the Sapta rishis meditated on this mountain. This is the reason why the small rock structure on top the Sarvajnana peedam was built by Lord Parashurama in 4000 BC. Adi Shankaracharya just meditated here. He did not build it, he just meditated in it.

Also ignore the white Christian invaders version of Adi Shankaracharya , which is available on Wikipedia.  

If you look up MANU the first law maker of this planet, in Wikipedia they have ridiculed him and have quoted a DESH DROHI by the name of Amish Tripati,  a young immature foreign funded fiction story teller , who converted a god , Lord Shiva , into a recent mortal sex maniac  to belittle Hinduism-- to the glee of the Christian church.

Above : My wife and younger son at the peak --at the Sarvajnana peedam ( 4303 feet above sea level ) after a tiring trek.

This mineral and metal rich Kudajadri mountain in Karnataka is by miles more powerful that the Arunachala mountain in Tamil Nadu.

Just when we were about to climb up the mountain, in the evening, the last group coming down told us, that there is nobody on the mountain and we will be all alone. 

By the time we reached the top a cloud cover threatened us.  This and the knowledge that we are all alone on the huge mountain,  a few feet from a steep vertical fall , with darkness approaching , made our climb exhilarating.  

On the way down what my wife thought was a piece of black plastic , was a Cobra snake, and she was warned by my son not to kick it.. 

I have once got caught in a cloud cover on Table Mountain Capetown. We were stuck there for 4 hours. All the 6 people in our group got separated.  While standing we could not even see our own shoes.

Above: Table mountain of Capetown South Africa-- the cloud cover is called the table cloth

We first went to Kollur Mookabmika temple in our own car .  Outside the temple  baby elephant was busy blessing people in return for food and small change. The money the elephant gave the mahout. The food like bananas , it polished off.

How did a temple come up in such a desolate ( but beautiful ) spot.  It is on the banks of the perennial river Sauparnika.  It is considered  one of themost sacred spots in India , with lakhs of visitors every year. 

Statistics state that people have been cured of uncurable ailments . Childless couples usually come here. 

The temple has a gold plated crest and copper roofs ..

4000 year ago, Adi Shankaracharya meditated and did penace at Chitramoola cave and Devi appeared before him. He requested the Devi to come with him to Kerala. She agreed, on one condition, that she would follow him and he should never look back to check if she is following.

 It would be a test of faith over senses.

Adi Shankara agreed and started walking. He could hear the sound of the anklets bells of Devi as she walked behind him. When he reached Kollur , after a 40 mile walk,  suddenly the jingle sounds of Devi’s anklets stopped.

Adi Shankara became suspicious that Devi has stopped following Him. He turned to check out.  Devi was very much behind him, but, since the vow was broken, Devi said, “I will not follow you anymore.  I will stay here at this spot ”. 

That is the spot where Kollur Mookambika temple is today. Sankara was saddened by the turn of events and begged the forgiveness of the Devi whose heart melted for her devotee and promised that she would present herself at Chottanikkara temple in the mornings and he could meet her there.  

Only after the morning pooja is over at Chottanikkara will the temple doors of Mookambika be opened for Darshan and pooja since the Goddesshas to leave Chottanikkara for Mookambika.

The Goddess merged with a huge underground stone  of 42 kilometers radius , with its  apex visible, like an iceberg.

Adi Shankara made a powerful idol which is the replica of the image of Devi that he witnessed.  All the decorations are done on this idol, while all the offerings are done on the stone which has a golden lining in the middle.  

Right side of the Golden lining represents the trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and left side represents, Goddesses Saraswati, Mahalakshmi, Durga and Kali. 

The temple has been patronised by ancient Hindu Kings and it isl believed to contain valuable treasures in underground vaults.

At the entrance of the temple stands a tall and grand Deepa Sthambha ( oil lamp pillar) with 21 concentric circles . The lamps are lighted on festive occasions like Navarathri and during the Rathotsava. ( chariot festival )

This Sthambha rests on a Koorma Peeta ( tortoise seat ) and on this tortoise is a huge elephant upon which Lord Ganapati idol can be seen facing Goddess Mookambika Devi. The lamps are lighted on special festive days.  

Ganapati is the son of Goddess Parvati, who is worshiped as Sri Mookambika.  The Mookambika Temple is the only temple that is dedicated to goddess Parvathi.  The goddess  is symbolized here as the four armed divine Mother whose upper left hand holds the conch while the right hand holds the scalar discus.  

 Lower left hand shows the mystic abhayamudra while the right hand expresses abheeshta-mudra. The former gives freedom from fear and the latter symbol promises fulfillment in life.

From Mookambika temple we hired a Mahindra jeep and travelled to Kudajadri . The usual nearest 40 kilometer route was under repair, so we had to take the second best route of 110 kilometers , which takes 3 hours.  

The last 45 minutes if a steep climb on a raw bumpy with plenty of hairpin bends.  This could hardly be called a motorable road.   But the driver drove like a possessed manic with his 2 wheel drive jeep bouncing and swaying, like a slow roller coaster.   

Sometimes the jeep tilted 40 degrees with all of us holding on for dear life.  At one hairpin bend he had to reverse as the bend could NOT be navigated in one go.  To be frank I never expected something like this. 

Literally my timbers got rattled nay shivered. After the driver took us up and down safely I gave him a handsome bonus. 

My respect for the humble Indian make Mahindra jeep went sky rocketing.  If this was what an old battered 2 wheel drive jeep could do, hey, what about a spanking new 4 wheel drive jeep? 

Above Moolasthana, where there is a perenial stone stepped pond full of fishes.

The jeep can only go up to the PWD rest house ( Moolasthana ) after which we have to climb about 1.9 kilometers on foot, to reach the apex of the mountain where Sarvajnana peedam or Sankara Peedam is situated.. 

At Moolasthana my wife gave offerings to the temple before we set out for the climb.  At Moolasthana Devi had killed the demon Mookasura, and you can see the 35 feet handle end of the metal trident spear sticking out.  

Indian scientists from NITK, Suratkal conducted a test on this spear  and found that it was made from traditional Indian metallurgical skills.  Nobody knows the composition of the alloy yet as the spear has NOT rusted despite being more than 4000 years old. 

But it appears to have an angstrom thin oxide veneer which passivates the spear exterior, with a protective patina armour.. Otherwise no metal spear can last this long considering the amount of rainfall this place gets.

The place where devi killed Mookasura is known as “Marana Katte”. The lore is as follows.

Long ago there was this fierce demon called Kaumasura , who terrorized all and sundry. So much that mountain of  Kodachadri became the hiding place for all the gods . Soon the Saptarishis were engaged in prayers and poojas to bring about the end of evil demon Kaumasura. 

Guru Shukracharya enlightens the demon about his impending death at the hands of a woman.  Learning this, Kaumasura performs an austere penance to please Lord Shiva. .

Pretty soon the lord pleased with the demon's  prayers, appeared before him and asked him to name the boon that he wishes.  Vagdevi, the Goddess of speech senses that this could lead to a great disaster . So she takes away his power of speech.. 

The dumb Kaumasura then becomes unable to verbalise his wishes and then onwards he was called Mookasura.  Mookam means dumb in Sanskrit and Malayalam. 

Soon after, on the request of Kola Rishi, the goddess creates a mystical power by harnessing the individual powers of all the gods who had assembled.  This Divine power wages war on Mookasura and kills him with a trident . The place where Devi killed Mookasura is known as "Marana Katte".

However, just before he died, Mookasura repented his misdeeds and, in humble supplication, begged the Mother Goddess permit him to stay permanently in Kollur.  He also asked that his name be remembered along with hers henceforth.  It is thus that the deity here is known as Mookambika, the mother of Mooka.

That is why the temple Goddess is worshipped as Sri Saraswathi in the morning , as Sri Lakshmi at noon and Sri Durga in the evening.  Parents take their young children for writing their first letters and for Goddess Saraswati’s  ( Goddess of learning ) blessings .

From Moolasthana it takes more than one hour to trek 1.8  kilometers, literally an uphill task, and reach the top of Kudajadri mountain where the Sarvajnana peedam or Sankarapeedam is situated.. Sarvajnapeetam is a rock structure holds only one idol, that of Adi Shankaracharya in black stone.

It is at this Sarvajna Peetam ( wholesome wisdom ) , where Adi Shakracharya received the ultimate knowledge and dissolved into the universe . The roof from inside has various yantras and chakras carved and whole structure forms a Meru.  

On a cloudless day, if you look westwards at sunset you can get to see the Arabian Sea. The king cobra, python, tiger, leopard, Indian gaur and a variety of birds, including the Malabar pied hornbill, inhabit these forest .  The sides of the mountain drop almost vertically to the impenetrable jungles of Ambavana. .

Enroute to the top is the Ganapathy cave, by taking a small diversion..  There is a Ganapati idol in this cave and a tunnel which leads to Mookambika temple at Kollur and also to Chitra moola cave.

From the peak by a steep treacherous path of 500 metres descent leads to a small cave called Chitramoola, with a creek and clean and clear water falls , from where the Mookambika temple of Kollur is visible. You reach a cave at a height of 10 meters., which has to be climbed by means of a vertical ladder.

Chitramoola , one of the most beautiful places of the mountains of Kodachadri and is the spot where Sri Adi Shankara meditated .  This is the place where Goddess Mookambika appeared before Shankaracharya . There is a Shivalingam in the cave.  

All love to take a shower here in the cool falling waters, which washes off the fatigue . In the rainy season be careful of leeches, and it is better to take some powdered salt along.

The trip is worth it.  It gives you a good feeling.  

You are convinced that your body and lungs are still healthy and fit.  HEALTH IS WEALTH !!

Grace and peace!

Devotional song below is in my language Malayalam ( sung by Yesudas )

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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