My friend mamitha, her syster lina and myself started to
tiumalathis tuesday. first we reached the tirupati station. we booked a lodge,
and completly finished the temples like kalahasthi,and temples near the
tirupati. then we started wednesday night to tirumala. we reached their by night
8.00.we immediatly checked in a room which is run by ttd.then after
relaxing their for some minutes we wnt outside to have dinner. while going out
we saw a tonsuring hall in our. we stayed in woodlands cottage.it was
so crowded. many children, teens,men and also women were waiting to get
tonsure. for the first time i witnessed the whole process of tonsuring. there
wre nearly 5 barbers in that hall. we stood outside and saw the process of
tonsuring. it was nice.
Then i asked mamitha and lina to whether to get tonsured now
itself. they said we will see it tomo. morning .then we had the dinner and we
slept. the next day morning we stood up at 6.30 am. it was so cold. we changed
our dress and prepared to go for a tonsure. we decided to go to kalayanakatta.i
weared a dhothi, lina and mamitha weared a nighty as the hair straps will stick
in the dress which is hard to remove. so we went and stood in the q. there was
computerised slotting fo costumers to a barber. so i purchase three tickets.
each is assigned to a no. which is assined to a barber. i got a seperate barber
wreas lina and mamitha got to a same barber. they distribued a half blade to
each ticket.then we stood in the barbers q.
There wre only 1 person who was having tonsure to the barber to
whom i hav assigned. then i sat before the barber. he started wetting up my
hair. then he cahnged his blade. he started this my first remombaral tonsure.i
was hearing a sound szzzzz, szzzzz my hair which i grown with shampoo, and oil
started falling in laps. it was over within 5.00 min. i could hardly recogonice
me. then i went to saw mamitha and lina they wre still in the q b'cos the
barber was attending the previous clint. then mamitha sat before. he wetted her
hair first and started shaving her head from the back head. then he moved
towards the forehead and completly finished off. then lina sat and the same
process was cont. for her also as she is having more hair he put 2 knots after
wetting the hair and started shaving. it was a nice exp for all of us. then we
took bath and had a frantastic dharshan of lord balaji and we retturned to
chennai. our inmates hardly recogonised us.we took photogrs after returning to
chennai.
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