Periyapuranam (29)

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This

is the continuation of the “Periyapuranam

Series”…………………..

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font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">29. CHAKKIYA

NAYANAR

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

Thiruchchanga Mangai where people had the generous mind like the mother earth,

Nayanar was born in a family which had agriculture as their profession. He

learnt lots of philosaphy, not for useless debating or grazing to boast as a

scholar, but to find out the truth.

color:blue"> Hence he had love for all the creatures in this world. He was

determined to come out of the birth-death cycle. He reached the city Kanychi,

which had lots of scholars and was synonymous with knowledge, out of his quest

for the truth. He accepted the path of

Budhdhism. There he had the opportunity to explore the principles of Budhdhism

and other religions. He read the scriptures of his religion and other religions

analysed them with unbiased thirst for truth. Our Lord always leads people in

the correct way if they are truthful and have quest for Him. By His grace he

established for himself that it is the path of Shiva that is the ultimate

truth.

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">He was sure,

"Whatever be one's state, whatever be the form and outside appearance the

right thing to do is not forgetting the holy feet of Shankara."

So he didn't change his appearance of a Budhdhist monk, but was always enjoying

the sweet feet of Lord Shiva in his heart

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realise that Omnipresent Almighty Isha is the God, blaspheme due to their

dependance on other religions. But our Nayanar flowed in the path of love for

the God whom he found out to be the right.

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:purple;font-weight:bold">He realised that

Shivalingam is the symbol of that unmeasurable unique unexplainable Almighty

and went to see the Shivalingam. As soon as he saw the Almighty in the form of

Shivalingam he forgets the world, becomes the wax that saw the fire, his heart

blossomed, eyes expanded in bliss, tears of joy appeared as pearls.

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didn't know what to do. He took a stone and threw it on the Lord without the

knowledge of what he is doing but with great devotion like the mother who

happily receives even the slaps her child gives her out of the love.

In his routine he arrived the next day as

well. He then remembered that he had thrown a stone on the Lord. Thinking that

that happened only as a blessing of the Lord he took that as his service to

that Easily pleased. That day onwards everyday he throws a stone at the

Shivalingam and worship the God in the saffron cloth of the budhdhist monks.

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold">One day he forgot to do

his duty of stone worship and went to have his food. That time he realised,

"Oh! How did I forget my Love? How can I go ahead with my food without

worshipping Him?". He rushed to the three-eyed Lord's abode with flood

like love and speed. He took a stone and offered it to the feet of God.

font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:purple;font-weight:bold">To bless the devotee

who forgot his food, rushed in anxiety to do the service he undertook without

any break, the Merciful Lord appeared in the horizon on the holy Bull with the

Goddess Shakthi. The devotee prostrated, praised the Lord with the folded hands

on his head. God offered him the coveted post of being His slave in the

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font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:purple;font-weight:bold">eternally.

10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#003300;font-weight:bold">Many people

question as - Is it right to throw stone on the Lord and worship? Won't it lead

to misinterpretations? How did the Lord then accept such worship? It was not

the stones themselves the Lord accepted. It was the devotion behind that deed

he accepted. So one cannot argue that, "I too will throw stones and call

it as worship". It was not the actions of throwing stone by Chakkiya

Nayanar or Kannappa Nayanar's putting the footwear on the Shivalingam's head,

but the unimaginable peaks of love that was accepted by the Lord as flawless.

Others see only the stones, but the Hara takes that as flower

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