Kamakhya Temple Mystery: Why It Closes for 3 Days Every Year | Ambubachi Mela

If you want your children to grow up knowing the stories of Devi and her Shakti — the stories that temples like Kamakhya have kept alive for centuries — we built Temple Girl Kids exactly for that. Download it at www.templegirl.com Kamakhya is one of the most mysterious temples in Bharat. Most temples have a murti inside the garbhagriha. But at Kamakhya, you descend into a natural cave beneath the temple, where a yoni shaped rock is worshipped as Maa Kamakhya herself. An underground spring flows over it throughout the year. Once every year, during Ambubachi Mela, the temple closes for three days. Devotees believe this is when Maa Kamakhya goes through her annual cycle. The spring is believed to turn red, the temple remains closed, and when it reopens, thousands of devotees wait for Angabastra, the red cloth that was placed over the yoni peetha during those three days. But Kamakhya is not only about Ambubachi Mela. Nilachal Hill is one of the most important centres of Shakti worship in Bharat. It is connected to the ten Mahavidyas, to Tantric sadhana, to the story of Narakasura, and to the Koch kings who rebuilt the temple in the 16th century. There is also a story that the very kings who rebuilt Kamakhya were later cursed by the Devi, and that their descendants still avoid looking at Nilachal Hill even today. In this video, we explore the many layers of Kamakhya Temple: why there is no murti inside, why the temple closes every June, why the red cloth prasad is considered so powerful, and what Ambubachi Mela reveals about the way Bharat once understood menstruation, fertility, and the power of Devi. Download the Temple Girl Kids app at templegirl.com for bedtime stories from India’s temples, made for children. Subscribe to Temple Girl for more stories from Bharat’s living temple traditions. Jai Maa Kamakhya. #kamakhyatemple #ambubachimela #kamakhyasecrets