Narayanapur is about 50 km. from Pune. There are buses also from Swargate bus station about 3 km. from Pune and it would be 3 to 4 hour journey by bus. Nirmala knew the priest's family and his parents who lived there. We very much wanted to get the blessings of that elderly and very pious couple. It appeared as though Shakeel knew every corner of Maharashtra. He drove us there which was a tiny and remote village. The parking lot was a good long walk from the temple.
The Temple looked like a replica to the Tirumalai Temple - but less crowded. The security was not rude (unlike Tirupathi where they push you, sqeeze your arm and so on unless you have a TTD badge hanging on your body). Laddu prasadam was given to each devotee after the darsan, which, we could finish in half an hour. Rao, gave his share of laddu to Shakeel as usual and Shakeel finished the whole laddu!!!. They were very systematic here with separate lines for men and women. No cameras or cell phones were allowed inside the temple, but you could leave them at the counter with security people.
The other temples inside the compound were of Padmavathi, Mahalakshmi, Goda devi and SriKrishna. There was one for Kubera outside the compound. The pooja pattern is similat to the one at Tirumalai.
One word of caution. If you ever travel to this place try to reach before dusk for your safety on the winding ghat roads.
After the wonderful darsan, we visited our friends who gave two more laddus. We were fortunate that we got the blessings of that elderly couple also.
As this was part of my previous post, I need to comment here that after re-visiting Chintamani Vinayaka and Bheema Shankar Jyothir lingam, we drove to Nasik. Rao spent hours before our departure planning the most efficient and economical way to cover all these places. That saved us lot of money and stress.
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