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The document narrates the mythological story of Lord Venkateshwara, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who appeared for the salvation of humanity in the Kali Yuga. It describes the significance of the Tirupati temple, known as Kaliyuga Vaikuntam, and the sacredness of the Tirumala hills. Additionally, it recounts the legend of Sage Bhrigu's visit to the deities, ultimately recognizing Lord Vishnu as the supreme deity after a series of encounters.

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Tirumala 1

The document narrates the mythological story of Lord Venkateshwara, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who appeared for the salvation of humanity in the Kali Yuga. It describes the significance of the Tirupati temple, known as Kaliyuga Vaikuntam, and the sacredness of the Tirumala hills. Additionally, it recounts the legend of Sage Bhrigu's visit to the deities, ultimately recognizing Lord Vishnu as the supreme deity after a series of encounters.

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Story of Lord Venkateshwara Swamy , A mythological story

about Lord Balaji and Goddess Lakshmi, The Story of Sri Maha
Vishnu Come to Earth​
Read complete story of Venkateshwara Swamy online at
Shreebalajimandir.org. According to the Hindu scriptures,
Vishnu, out of love towards his devotees, incarnated as
Venkateswara and appeared for the salvation and upliftment of
humanity in this Kali Yuga age. It is considered the supreme
form of Vishnu in this age. The Venkateswara swami temple is
also called Kaliyuga Vaikuntam.​
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Venkateshwara is another form of Lord Vishnu who is the most
popular deity among GSBs in Kerala. He is also known as
Venkatachalapathi or Venkataramana or Tirumal devar or
Varadaraja or Srinivasa or Balaji or Bithala. He has a dark
complexion and four hands. In his two upper hands he holds a
discus (a symbol of power) and a conchs hell (a symbol of
existence). With his lower hands extended downward he asks
devotees to have faith and surrender to him for protection. The
supreme temple of Venkateswara is at Tirupati and every GSB
wants to visit this temple at least once in life.
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The temple town of Tirupati is situated at the foot of Tirumala
hills in the Chandragiri Taluka of the Chittor district in Andhra
Pradesh. The sacred spot on the hill about 2,800 feet above
sea level is known as Tirumala, the abode of Lord
Venkateswara. The hill forms part of the Eastern Ghats and is
also known as Venkatachala and Seshachala. It is said that the
Eastern Ghats on this side along with their curves, heights and
falls resemble the serpent Adisesha and that the seven hills of
Tirupati are its seven heads and Ahobalam where Lord
Narasimha murthy is worshipped, representing the centre of
Adisesha, and Srisailam representing the tail end of Adisesha.
That is why Tirumala is called Seshachala. According to the
legends, this has been a sacred place in all the four yugas, and
was known as Vrishabhachala in the Krithayuga, Anjanachala in
the Tretayuga, Seshachala in the Dwaparayuga and
Venkatachala in the present Kaliyuga.​
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In this temple, unlike other Vishnu temples, we find no minor
shrines or idols of Vaishnava saints. Apart from the Lord
Venkateswara temple, the other important places at Tirumala
and Swami pushkarini, Papavinasam and Akasaganga
waterfalls, Varahaswamy temple, and Shila Toranam a very
ancient rock formation supposed to be over 10,000 years old.​
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Legend of Lord Venkateswara

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Once some rishis headed by Kasyapa began to perform a
sacrifice on the banks of the Ganges. Sage Narada visited them
and asked them why they were performing the sacrifice and
who would be pleased by it. Not being able to answer the
question, the rishis approached Sage Bhrigu. To reach a
solution after a direct ascertainment of reality, Sage Bhrigu first
went to Satyaloka, the abode of Lord Brahma. At Satyaloka, he
found Lord Brahma, reciting the four Vedas in praise of Lord
Narayana, with each of his four heads, and attended upon by
Saraswati. Lord Brahma did not take notice of Bhrigu offering
obeisance. Concluding that Lord Brahma was unfit for worship,
Bhrigu left Satyaloka for Kailasa, the abode of Lord Shiva. At
Kailasa, Bhrigu found Lord Siva spending his time pleasantly
with Parvati and not noticing his presence. Parvati drew the
attention of Siva to the presence of the sage. Lord Siva was
furious at Bhrigu's intrusion and tried to destroy him. The sage
cursed Lord Siva and left for Vaikuntam. At Vaikuntam, Lord
Vishnu was reposing on Adisesha with Sri Mahalakshmi in
service at His feet. Finding that Lord Vishnu also did not notice
him, the sage was infuriated and kicked the Lord on His chest,
the place where Mahalakshmi resides. At once, Lord Vishnu
hastened to apologise to the angry sage and pressed his feet to
allay the pain caused to Bhrigu's leg. In doing so the Lord
removed the eye in the foot of the sage, stripping of his special
powers. Thereupon, the sage concluded that Lord Vishnu was
the most supreme of the trimurthis and told the rishis the same.

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