Comments on: Thaipusam, The Journey http://www.feldberyl.com/voices/20070201/thaipusam-the-journey/ photography by wansheng Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:12:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Logaiswaran http://www.feldberyl.com/voices/20070201/thaipusam-the-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-4310 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:10:45 +0000 http://www.feldberyl.com/voices/?p=109#comment-4310 Hi,
came across your blog about thaipusam. I think I can clear some of your doubts about this spectacle. Firstly the spikes are poked to serve as a penance and the spikes through the cheek and tongue is to observe silence during your fast and to obtain spiritual realisation. The spike on the forehead is pierced at the position we hindus believe is the third eye. The inner eye which can only be awakened by meditation and fasting. The offerings brought from 1 temple to another is milk, poured in a pot and tied to the kavadi. This milk will than be poured on the Vel(Spear) in Sri Thandayuthabaani Temple (Tank Rd). The Vel(Spear) is the weapon used by Lord Murugan to destroy evil. So it is highly revered and by pouring the milk over such an object, it is said to draw some of the powers and prayers into the milk where some of it will be returned back to you to consume.

Hope this cleared some of your doubts. If you have further doubts you contact me at my email add. Or you you ask your friend (Indren) whom I’m sure will be glad to clear your doubts as well.

Cheers!

]]> By: sundar http://www.feldberyl.com/voices/20070201/thaipusam-the-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:52:31 +0000 http://www.feldberyl.com/voices/?p=109#comment-1433 Hi….I would like to know the person who took the kavadi pics. It would be great if you can contact me at my mail add. I will b doing it for he upcoming year so hope i can fix something with you

]]> By: beyond the viewfinder » Blog Archive » graffiti, travel guide: Singapore http://www.feldberyl.com/voices/20070201/thaipusam-the-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:50:49 +0000 http://www.feldberyl.com/voices/?p=109#comment-129 […] Today I finally met Sio Hui, the person who put together the travel guide “graffiti“. Few months back, I received an email from Sio Hui asking for contributions to this travel guide by “people who live in the country (basically, we eat, sleep, etc here)”. That was when she saw a posting on my blog on Thaipusam, which I sorta participated (without any piercings of course!) when invited by my friend, Indren. So after a few rounds of drafts and grammer corrections, I finally submitted my piece. […]

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