From Bhooloka Vaikunta to Vaikunta

From Bhooloka Vaikunta to Vaikunta.  The title may seem to be misleading, but I will certainly show you the Vaikunta before the end of this long writing. 

Before we start our journey we should know about the distances and how it is measured.  Everybody knows what a foot ruler is. A foot has 30 centimetres.  A meter ruler has 100 centimetres.  1000 meters is 1 kilometre.  Road distances are measured in kilometres.  But when we go out into space, the distances are so large that it cannot be measured in kilometres.  So distances are measured in light years.  Now let us see what a light year is.  Light travels at a speed of 300,000 kilometres per second.  1 year = 365 days. 365 x 24 = 8760 hours. 8760 x 60 = 525,600 minutes. 525,600 x 60 = 31,536,000 seconds. Hence, 1 year = 31,536,000 seconds. 31,536,000 seconds x 300,000 = 9.4607 x 1012 So the distance that light travels in one year = 9.4607 x 1012 kilometres. The distances between planets, stars and galaxies are measured in light years.

 Let us start our journey from an auspicious place, say Srirangam Temple. 

India is a land of hundreds of temples, Srirangam temple, also known as bhooloka Vaikuntam, is One of the biggest temples in India is in Srirangam town, near Tiruchi in Tamilnadu.

The temple is spread over an area of 156 acres of 

land which is equivalent to 631,000 sq.mts. and has 21 gopurams (temple towers). 

 The main gopuram(temple tower)has 13 tiers and has a base of 5720 sq.ft and a height of 237 feet (72 metres).