Maha Kumbhabhishekam

The day after the yagam, Maha kumbhabhishekam was done for all the dieties with the energized water from the kalashas kept in the yagam. Swami Bhaktananda did the abhishekam for all the dieties with kalasha water. Yagam participants also came to the temple and did the abhishekam to the dieties themselves.

Homas and Abhishekams are powerful rituals to invoke divine energies from ether to earth using the following process:
- Through visualization or meditation the energy is brought to ‘akasha’ or ether or space.
- From ether through mantra chanting it is brought to the air
- Through fire rituals in the Homas it is brought to the fire
- From the fire it is transfered to the water in the ‘kumbha’
- And finally the water is sprinkled on the people doing the Homa and then installed in the temple deities through Abhishekam (Holy Bath).

Following are some of the pictures taken during the Maha Abhishekam on Sep 7th, 2008.