The Sacred Mountain

Thiruvannamalai is famous for the sacred mountain Arunachala. The mountain is in an anomaly standing rigid and alone in the middle of the plains as if it sprouted up of its own accord disregarding the fact that there is no other mountain range close by to keep it company.

Legend has it the great god Lord Shiva created the mountain to stop a dispute between two fierce gods and that the mountain itself is an abode of the Lord and bestows great self knowledge to those seekers who find themselves in its vicinity.