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On the first Ram Navami for Ram Lalla, the deity at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, devotees have been looking forward to the Surya Tilak ceremony: the moment when the Sun's rays directly touch the forehead of the deity..
In this ritual, the Sun's rays are carefully directed to illuminate the forehead of the deity, serving as a profound symbol of reverence and devotion...
Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the biggest Hindu temple in the world, served as a practical observatory where the rising Sun was aligned on the equinox and solstice days with the western entrance of the temple, and many sighting lines for seasonally observing the risings of the sun and the moon were identified, Kak writes...
"Landed in Thiruvananthapuram on a special day - September 23, the Autumnal equinox, one of the two days in the year when the Sun appears sequentially through each window of the Gopuram of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple," he wrote on X. Tharoor's tweets expressed awe at the impeccable alignment of this incredible structure..
At Arasavalli, close to Srikakulam, in Andhra Pradesh, is a temple dedicated to Lord Surya where sun rays fall at the feet of the deity on certain days..
