Visitor Guidelines for Kamakhya Temple
Facts You Should Know Before Visiting Kamakhya Temple
There are lot of misleading information, rumors, fictious stories, manufactured facts floating around the internet and social media about Kamakhya Temple, and these are,
Photography is strictly prohibited inside any of the temples of Kamakhya Hill, hence the photo of Kamakhya Yoni Peeth and any Peeth of the Mahavidyas available in the internet is fake.
The sacred landscape is often mentioned as Kamakhya or Kamakhya Temples’ Complex or Nilachal Hills or Kamakhya Hill or Kamakhya Dham or Kamrup Kamakhya and all these denotations are synonymous.
No Tantrik or Aghori or Sabara lives at Kamakhya or belongs to the domicile Shebait families of Kamakhya.
The members of the domicile Shebait families of Kamakhya who are initiated in the Tantra Marga Parampara of Kamakhya are denoted as Sadhaka and not as Tantrik.
Black Magic, Sabari Vidya and any other negative or harmful Kriya / Rituals / Prayoga are not practiced in any form or manner by the domicile Shebait Priests of Kamakhya.
Kam Sindoor or Kamiya Sindoor is not produced or available at Kamakhya and hence, not given to the Devotees as blessings of Kamakhya Temple.
The flowing water of the Peetha of Kamakhya Temple, including the other Temples of the Kamakhya does not turn red during Ambubachi.
During the Ambubachi, the Peetha of Kamakhya Temple is not covered with White colored silk cloth which become Red after three days. Small piece(s) of this Red Cloth is given to the Devotees as Raktavastra or Angavastra free of cost only by the authorized Shebaits of Kamakhya.
There is no tradition of carrying the sacred water of the Peetha of Kamakhya Temple in containers as blessings.
The Puja, Rituals, Rites at all the temples of Kamakhya Hill are performed strictly adhering to the prescribed procedures of the Tantra Marga Parampara of Kamakhya Kula for fulfilling the wishes of the Devotees.
Only the initiated domicile Shebait Priests of Kamakhya having exclusive customary hereditary rights are authorized to perform Puja, Rituals, Rites in the respective temples of the Kamakhya Hill as per their assigned designated association with a particular temple(s).
Person(s) not having domicile customary hereditary right as Shebait Priests of Kamakhya are strictly debarred from performing Puja, Rituals, Rites at any site of the Kamakhya Hill.
Travel Guidelines for Devotees Visiting Kamakhya
How to Reach Kamakhya Temple
Digitized Image of Kamakhya Temple
kamakhya, an interconnected network of Mahavidyas and other deity temples often collectively referred as Kamakhya Temples’ Complex is located in Guwahati, Assam, India (26.166426°N / 91.705509°E).
Kamakhya Temple can be easily reached by Railway, Flight and surface transport.
The nearest railway station is Kamakhya station is in a distance is 8.6 km the Guwahati station is in a distance of 8 km from the Kamakhya Temple.
The LNGB International Airport is located in a distance of 20 km from the Kamakhya Temple.
The distance of Kamakhya Temple from Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) is 16.5 km.
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