Great Devotees of Lord Siva 2

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Om Namah Sivaya Pusalar Nayanar Pusalar Nayanar Pusalar was a

Brahmin of Tiru Ninravur in South India, he lived before 8th century A.D.

Living as a disciplined devotee he kept all the feeling of the mind to the One

who enters through emotion and grew a great love for that Three-Eyed Lord.

Dependency only to the Dark-Blue

throated and does whatever service required for His devotees was his policy. He

excelled in the mental worship of the Lord. Mental worship is thousands of

times better than external ritualistic worship: mental worship soon leads to

Samadhi (Superconscious State) and Self-Realisation. For the Homeless Lord

who gives refuge to one who surrenders he wanted to build a beautiful abode. He

never thought of his financial capacity. All that was in his mind was somehow to

build an abode for the Immortal Beauty who stole away his heart. He tried his

best to gather the money required from wherever he could but he could not get

enough. He was quite disappointed.

black"> In spite of the disappointment he never dropped the great plan to

construct a magnificent abode for the Lord. So, mentally he gathered the

necessary money and materials for the purpose. In his thoughts he employed the

highly skilled masons and other workers for the building work. In the growing

enthusiasm that could not be quenched by the material world disappointments, he

found a day well suited as per the Agamas to lay the foundation of his virtual

but very much holy temple. The sincere, well contemplated work continued for a

long time never stopping in the middle and he completed the exterior and all

the inner places of the abode. He erected a big tower and decorated with the

clay forms; digged a

pond that would serve for the holy ‘Abhishekam’ of the Lord everyday; raised

gigantic strong walls all around the abode; made a pleasant pond outside the

abode. The abode was complete like his completeness of love. He even fixed an

auspicious day for the installation of the deity in it. The Kadava king who

was also a great devotee of Lord Siva had built a magnificent temple in

Conjeevaram. By chance he had also fixed the date which Pusalar had mentally

chosen, for the installation of the Lord in his temple. The Lord wanted to show

the king the superiority of Pusalar’s great devotion. So, the Lord appeared in

the king’s dream and asked him to postpone the installation ceremony in his

temple, as He would be going to the temple constructed by His devotee at

Tiru Ninravur. The king woke up from sleep and was intensely eager to have the

Darshan of the devotee mentioned by the Lord and also have a look at the great

temple he had built, which he thought would be far superior to his temple.

The king came to Tiruninravur and searched all over the place for the temple:

he could not find any. Then the king enquired about Pusalar. He found out

Pusalar’s house and approached him. Pusalar was stunned when he heard of the

king’s dream. Soon, he recovered and was filled with joy. He thought: ‘How kind

and merciful is the Lord. I am only a wretched creature and He has accepted my

mental shrine as His Abode. I am really blessed.’ He told the king that that

temple was only in his

mind. The king was greatly surprised to hear this. Admiring Pulasar’s devotion,

the king fell at his feet and worshipped him. Pulasar installed the Lord in his

mental temple and continued to worship Him till he attained His Abode. Sivaya

Namah

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