Periya Puranam (3)

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is the continuation of the “Periyapuranam Series” .................

 

 

font-weight:bold">3. ILAIYANKUDIMARA NAYANAR

bold;font-style:normal">“Ilaiyankudi”

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font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">illuminated itself in

the history by having a slave of slaves of Shankara known

as “

font-style:normal">Ilaiyankudimara Nayanar” who ceded

his whole heart to the Lord who robs the hearts of the saluters.

He got the widening wealth out of the hard work in the farm fields and the wide

heart that tries to reach the infinite in the selfless service to the

worshippers of the warrior who destroyed the three cities of three impurities.

He had an enjoyable life with this wealth.

color:blue;font-weight:bold">Whoever came at his house with the love for the

wet matted haired Supreme, were given an appealing welcome with his folded

hands on the head, blossomed face showering flowers of nice words and his

humble deeds making the red carpet.

He would wash their feet with the scented water, provide them the most

comfortable seating and then serve the food which is rich in all the six tastes

with utmost humbleness for those devotees who love the taste of Holy five

letters (“Na Ma Shi Va Ya”) than anything else. He lived like the Kupera

(the richest and the brother of Ravana) who was given

limitless wealth by the Lord.

color:purple;font-weight:bold">To show the Nayanar’s real service motto to

the human kind which was so strong that even the absence of wealth would not be

able to shake his determination to serve, the God appraised by vedas slowly

changed his wealth to poverty.

bold">The wealth shrunk, but his broad mind never shrunk.

bold">He sold his belongings, borrowed from proper means possible to continue

the service that was at no time second in quality.

The loving Lord’s leela (play) continued……..

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">He went in the

disguise of a devotee to the house of the Nayanar during a time when the

poverty has grabbed every inch of that house.

 

It

was the dark night in the monsoon season. So what ?

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">Though the house was

in darkness, there was plenty of light in the hearts of the Ilaiyankundi

Nayanar couple, so, when the Lord arrived in cover,

bold">they happily welcomed Him. Gave enough cloths to change the wet cloths

for Him. He gave to that refuge giving Lord a nice place to relax.

With the enthusiasm to host the devotee he asked his equally devotional wife

what they can do to quench the hunger of the sage.

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">He was worried that it

was not so bad that they did not have food for themselves but they had to serve

somehow the devotee of Lord nice food.

His loving wife replied that there is nobody in the village who would lend

something for them and the time was also quite late in the night, but suggested

that if he could bring the rice grain seeds that they sewed in the noon, she

could make food out of that.

color:blue;font-weight:bold">For the farmers the grain seeds that are kept separate

for growing next time are very valuable and whatever comes they do not consume

that grains.

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">But for this excellent

devotee this suggestion appeared to be a great gift as he was more worried

about how to feed the devotee.

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font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">In

bold">that darkness and rain, only his love for the Lord showed the way for him

to go to the fields. The whole village including all the creatures were

sleeping. The rain poured in torrents. Visibility was very less. But nothing

shook the determination of the devotee.

Sensing the path through his legs he went inside the farm land. He gathered the

seeds that had been pushed to the corners by the rain along with the mud. He

filled the basket he had brought and rushed back. His wife washed the mud off

from the seeds.

bold">To cook the food there was no fire wood. That great man who had cut

down the strong beam of ego cut the wooden beam of his house to burn!

After cooking the rice, that chaste wife worried what could she do for the side

dish. He went immediately to the land where spinach is cultivated and plucked

them. She cooked different varieties of dishes out of that spinach, showed them

to her husband. They decided to wake up the devotee, who is beyond the reach of

thoughts, for having food.

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">"Please bless me

my Lord, by having this simple food that we made out of the love", they

saluted Him.

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">To the surprise of the

great servant and his matched wife, He arose as the flame of beautiful light.

bold">They were shocked by that Light. It was the very same light of the ‘Doer

of Good‘ which couldn’t be explored by Vishnu and Brahma. But

the Lord Shankara who is simplest to His devotees melted in the warmth of the

Love and devotion of the Nayanar and his wife and appeared blissfully on the

Holy Bull with His shakthi Parvathi.

bold">He blessed them, "Oh loving minds! You who worshipped and served the

devotees of Mine will come to our great world to live blissfully with the Lord

of wealth serving you".

bold">Salutations to the Lord Shiva who is above all.

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"Comic Sans MS";color:green;font-weight:bold">Let the determined service to the

devotees of the Supreme by the Nayanar stay in our mind!!!!

font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Sai Ram

font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Shivathmika

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