Visit to Sri Sankara Matam, Ghosala- Gho Puja during Dasara Friday

Visit to Sri Sankara Matam, West Mambalam, Chennai

Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam's branch is located in Easwaran Koil Street. The Sankara Matam acts as a hub of spiritual and dharmic activities.

A few years back, with the Blessings of Their Holinesses Jagadguru Pujyasri Jayendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Swamiji and Pujyasri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswathi Shankaracharya Swamiji, the deity of Devi Kamakshi was installed in Srimatam. Regular pujas are offered to Devi Kamakshi. During auspicious occasions like Navaratri, special pujas are performed. 

There are close to 100+ cows and this is one of its kind shelters and also is a spiritual abode to people who want to worship Kamadhenu.   Gho pooja is performed every Friday between 6.30 pm – 8. pm and the token amount is Rs.50 and you can take athi leaves and untied flowers for the pooja.  Every week, the priest gives anecdotes from Hindu religion, gives us news and events details and also the communal ushering of Omkara and ends with the prasadam distribution.   You will for sure leave the place with quite serene vibrations of calmness and peace.  

Significance of Gho Pooja

Worship Goddess Kamadhenu on Fridays and Goddess Lakshmi will bless you with Abundance. In India, cows have been treated as sacred and as a personification of Goddess Kamadhenu. Vedas say that Goddess Kamadhenu is a cosmos where all the Gods, Goddess, Devas including the Trinity (Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma along with their Consorts) reside. It is also stated in the myths that offering prayers to Goddess Kamadhenu is equivalent to worshipping our ancestors and hence it is considered to be auspicious to feed the cows on a New Moon Day. The cow is worshipped every day and has a very major significance in family rituals. The cow is called as Kamadhenu, the wish-fulfilling sacred cow.

Gho Pooja means worshipping Goddess Kamadhenu. Puranas say that Mother Kamadhenu ("Gho Matha") emanated from the milky ocean while the Devas and Asuras were churning the ocean and she was taken into possession by Devas. As Kamadhenu fulfilled the wishes of all, the Devas flourished with her divine grace.

To perform this Gho Pooja and Lakshmi Homa on a Friday is more auspicious because Venus rules Friday and the Overlord of Venus is Goddess Lakshmi. Worshipping Goddess Lakshmi on a Friday also helps you in gaining the blessings of Venus who bestows you with pleasures and comforts in life.

The performance of Gho pooja is significantly important as many benefits are accrued through this ritual. This ritual helps you in gaining the blessings and grace of Goddess Lakshmi. Worshipping mother Kamadhenu helps in alleviating the sins committed by our Ancestors and also in wiping out the ancestral curse. Losses in business can be overcome by the performance of this worship. Debts can be easily resolved. Problems created by enemies would easily vanish.

Our visit details

Members of Inner Wheel Club of South and co-president from Chennai President decided to visit the place and offer our prayers and also food to the cows and render our devotion on the auspicious Friday of the Dasara festival season.  Friday, 26 Sep 2014 blessed us with the opportunity to have this experience and also feel the blessings to our entire Inner Wheel family.