Omkara Ashrama Mahaasamsthaana
Address: Omkar Hills, Shrinivasapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560060, India
Phone number: +91 80 2861 2586
Omkara ashrama mahaasamsthaana is a Hindu temple in Bengaluru.It has been rated 9.2 out of 10 by 5572 people.
Website: https://www.omkarhills.org/
Reviews
Ajhuu u. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
Beautiful view nice sceneric and on top of hill with gentle breeze soothing for the mind and nice place to be and for religious based it's a place with lord Shiva and different lingam from across the country.....all in one place
Posted: 2 months ago
Vipin C. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
It’s a pleasant place to visit with family / friends… Bike, Car parking available and also near to the main road, can come by public transport too…Meditation centre, Vanadurga Devi and Matsya Narayana swamy temple also adjacent to main temple…
Posted: 2 months ago
Shreesha K. rated it 6/10 stars and wrote:
A silent and a isolated-from-the-city's-chaos kind of place. The Dwaadasha (12) Jyothirlingas installed are said to have great power within and believed to be helping in curing body ailments. A Mruthyinjaya homa and Abhisheka(to Vaidhyanatheshwara) in this temple on every Amavasye is said to be very beneficial. They have many deities worshipped in their premises.
Main temple's inside and outer premise were considerably clean.
An auditorium hosts pictorial representation of lives of different Maharshi's.
Kesari Ganapathi, Vana durga temple and Mathsya Narayana temple are other notable installations.
Vana durga temple is beautiful placed under a banyan tree with a small portion of place dedicated to depiction each of many religions, just not Hinduism.
One can get a glimpse of armugam temple(Rajarajeshwari Nagara) and a panaromic view of the surrounding cityscape from here.
They also provide Annaprasada everyday. Devotees can contribute in their capacity towards everyday annaprasada/annadaana.
The temple is widespread. There are many deities and seems the temple management is failing to manage it well considering the fact that all the deities are not cleaned and worshipped every day. During the first visit I and my family thought they'd clean and perform pooje to all of those idols inside and outside the main temple during Amavasye as they perform special pooje/abhisheka and homa on that day being special. But we noticed that they had not done any pooje to all those deities idols even on Amavasye. May be they'd do it only on Shivarathri every year. If that's the case, no point in having so many idols in the temple premise. It is as good as in an abandoned temple!!
The management and facility are very poor here.
There's confusion and lack of efficient management in performing the monthly Mruthyunjaya Homa. We witnessed a long-run heated-up raised-voice conversation during my recent visit to attend Mruthyinjaya homa. The management and many of the devotees had a clash in terms of forming a queue and allowed 2-person-per-ticket limit. There was also confusion in distributing in Annaprasada. The dining area is not called out explicitly. No direction board to the dining hall. It is almost isolated from the temple premise. However, the anna prsada was filling. ?
There's a paid footwear stand and Pooje items selling shops.
There are two roads leading to temple. One from the entrance arch and the other near JSS college.. The later seems to be good and one can reach the temple premise directly. However it's far and map usually suggests the one via the temple's entrance arch. Here the road is very bad. Almost as good as no road exists. The Temple/Ashram authority must have fixed the road but they've not. Someone even takes money for parking, still they've not fixed the way leading to temple. It was very hard for the elderly devotees to manage through this way.
Since the temple is not new and is open since many years and attract visitors and devotees from all over the world and across the year, this is not the state of facility that they should be maintaining it in.
Apart from all these, a personal thought - This is just another place like the other famous temple structures (ISKCON, Shivoham, etc.) in the city (IYKYK) but with lesser commercial aspects(that's a bit good), lesser management efficiency or interests and lesser facilities. Also with comparatively lesser crowd, lesser chaos (which again is something good).
There's lot of opportunities for development and fixtures.
Posted: 2 months ago
Arya R. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
Very good place to visit..prefer to go on evening .best sun set view..
The evening vibe is just awesome
Posted: 3 months ago
Narendra G. rated it 10/10 stars and wrote:
Nice temple on the top of the hill. Mainly Shiva temple, inside temple they have 12 jyotirling and name of place where these jyotirling are present.
Posted: 3 months ago
Timings:
Sunday: 7 am to 9 pm
Monday: 7 am to 12:30 pm, 4:30 to 8:30 pm
Tuesday: 7 am to 12:30 pm, 4:30 to 8:30 pm
Wednesday: 7 am to 12:30 pm, 4:30 to 8:30 pm
Thursday: 7 am to 12:30 pm, 4:30 to 8:30 pm
Friday: 7 am to 12:30 pm, 4:30 to 8:30 pm
Saturday: 7 am to 12:30 pm, 4:30 to 8:30 pm
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