Kandhar Shashti Kavacam

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Topic started by murugadas (@ 210.186.103.32) on Sun Nov 11 17:38:58 .


This thread is an off-shoot from the thread 'Meaning of Name' Sengalvaraya.
It was thought more appropriate to treat it as separate thread.

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Hmmmmmmm....

I was just speaking about the Devi aspects........

'Yaa DEvI sarvabhUthEshu srungaara rUpEna samsthitha
namsthasyai namasthasyai namasthasyai namO nama:'

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hi

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To whoever passes by...........

This is a thread that is devoted to Kandhar Shashti Kavacam and we are dealing with it in detail with all its ramifications.

Thr Forumhub has a notorious name that any thread which is started in earnest can be forced to be abandoned.

I myself have abandoned several threads on history, sastras, ancient poetry and poets, occultism, etc.
I had made more than 400 contributions by that time.

I was forced to abandon them altogether.

Let us hope that Kandha Shashti Kavacam does not meet the same fate.

These activities cost money, effort, physical pain and exertion, and above all precious time.

I operate two PC's at two different places - my own. I pay my own internet bills and also telephone bills and electricity bills.

And my library back-up is my own, costing a pretty buck.

And my research and studies have been made by me in my own little free-time available from my busy and demanding profession.

Let there be no nonsense!!!

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VaLLimalai SwamigaL preformed many miracles. He had accumulated spiritual powers which he used for the betterment of his disciples.
There are ceratain Thiruppugalz songs which have the potencies to chnage the course of events and also to alleviate sufferings. The SwamigaL used to go to the houses of people who were poor and sing certain of the hymns. The people would then be raised from their poverty.
One day, while he was playing his Ekadaarai instrument and singing, he saw a woman clad in white, who was sitting in front of him listening with rapture at his Thiruppugalz singing. Later that night, he dreamt and a poem in praise of the Goddess Sorasvathi came up in his dream.

veLLaik kalaichchi, vidhi naa idaththi, veN kamalak
kiLLaik karaththi, sanggiidhaamrudhaththi, kiLimolzichchi
eLLaththanaiyum igalzaap pugalz vaakkinikka venRan
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There was one occasion when the wife of a SriVaishnava disciple, suffered from ?obstructed labour. When the SwamigaL was informed of this, he sang on his own -

thanajayan iradham Ottum saaradhi thanai thyaanikkath
thanancayap perumaaL kaakkum thaiyalmEl karuNai seydhu
thanancayan ennum baalan tharaNiyil piRakkaveNNIth
thanacayan uthaikkap piLLai salaththudan piRandhaananRE!

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Usually the SwamigaL would sing particular Thiruppugalz hymns to suit the circumstances. But this is one of the rare occassions wherein he sang an aasukavi a poem that is composed spontaneously without thinking or hesitation..

The above type of kavi is known as madakku. The word 'thanancayan gets repeated four times.

In this he prays to Lord Krishna/Vishnu to bless so that the vaayu Thanancayan would kick the baby called Thanacayan, out with the amniotic fluid, out to be born into the world.

In Ayurveda system, it is said that there 10 types of 'vaayu's called 'Dasa Maha Vaayu's. They are supposed to be the activating forces of systems like the sympathetic, parasympathetic, respiration, metabolism, peristalsis, labour, etc. Of these 'Dasa Maha Vaayu's, the vaayu 'Dhanajaya' is responsible for labour and child birth.

Thats why the SwamigaL invoked Krihsna, the chariot driver of Dananjaya - Arjuna to activate the 'Dananjaya' vaayu to dispel the baby out which was going to be called Thanancayan.

The birth took place without any difficulty.
And the grateful father named the baby - 'Thanancayan'.

He sang it in the past tense. He was sure that it was going to effectively happen.
Such was his faith, confidence and power.

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In 1944, a young boy met him. His name was Sethuraman. One day when his family had gone to Palzani, the boy Sethu was told to stay in Madras with the SwamigaL. The SwamigaL told him the Thiruppugalz hymn, 'madhiyaal viththaganaagi' and that was his upadEsam. Later on, Sethuraman became an aruL kavi and took up sannyasam from Parthasarathi SwamigaL of Vaishnavi Temple. He became Swami Sadhu Ram. By that time, Parthasarathi himself had become a sannyasi.

In the year 1950, after the SwamigaL had incorporated his everything into Vaishnavi of Then Thiru Mullai Vaayil, he went to ThiruththaNi and made his customery worship on the Brahmotsavam with the offering of a thirumaanggalyam and pottu on the eighth day - VaLLi ThirumaNam.

Then he went to Thiruvaarur, where there had been no rain for many months and a famine resulted.

As he was fragile, he sent his disciples to the sannidhi where a thousand and two hundred years ago, Sundaramurthi Nayanar had sang his famous hymn, 'miiLaa adimai' and asked the disciples to sing that hymn there. Then he told them to sing the Thiruvaaruur Thiruppugalz song, 'karamu muLariyin' at the sannidhi of Murugan. Before the singing ended, rain clouds gathered and it rained heavily for the whole night. The SwamigaL was staying in an old dilapidated house and in the heavy downpour it was in a state of collapse. But somehow, it stayed intact and the SwamigaL was safe.

When Maharishi Ramanar was very ill, the Swamigal started for ThiruvaNNaamalai. On the way, he was almost run over by a train carriage. But suddenly he was saved miraculously.

Precisely at that moment, the soul of the Maharishi departed.

Everyone saw a brilliant light which traversed the sky.

The SwamigaL stayed in Thiruvannaamalai until the samaadhi kriyas were over. Thus he paid his last respects to the Maharshi who had been his guide who guided him to his own Guru - Seshadri SwamigaL. And also corrected his Thiruppugalz singing and instructed about its meanings to the SwamigaL who was only semiliterate at that time.

When he reached Madras, he performed the Mokshah Diipam, Mandalaabhishekam, anna dhaanam, and Thiruppugalz paaraayaNam for the Maharishi, in the Kachchaaliisvarar Temple.

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In August 1950, the SwamigaL went to VaLLimalai once. But he did not go up the hill to his cave.

When somebody asked whether he was coming back, he replied that he will not come back; if his body comes there, to put it in a samaadhi.

When another person asked, he said he would return on Periya Karthigai Day.

Whne he returned from VaLLimalai, he never satayed anywhere permanently. He would be wandering around. He shifted places often. He never slept. He would get up in the middle of the night and sing Thiruppugalz.

In the month of October, he republished the Thiruppugalz PaaraayaNa ThirumuRai.

By that time, he was already eighty years old.

But he was always busy. He travelled relentlessly by crowded buses and trams.

He discarded his customary staying place in Madras and went to Gopalapuram. After 10 days, he went to Linggi Cheeti Street and stayed on the thiNNai of a stranger who had no attachments for either the SwamigaL or Thiruppugalz. He dissociated himself from all his disciples who were near and dear to him.

The Kandhar Shashti Festival took place from 10-11-1950 to 15-11-1950.

On all the six days, he performed Thiruppuglz paaraayanam, VaLLi Kalyaanam kaalatchebham, and anna dhaanam for hundreds of people to witness.

That was the last VaLLi Kalyaanam lecture of the SwamigaL.

In the middle of the lecture, the SwamigaL danced with ecstacy inspite of his age and fraglity.

After that his blood pressure went up. He was treated for that. After two or three days, he was taken to the General Hospital. Three people bore him up from the thinnai. One of them, Swaminathan was suffereing from a long time migraine. As he touched and lifted the SwamigaL, he felt his headache disappear and it disappeared forever.

In the hospital, he was visited by Sethuraman's brother who gave some coffee and chocolate. The SwamigaL chewed the chocholate and spat it out and asked it to be given to Sethuraman.

On the 22-11-1950, the SwamigaL was given oxygen and at 7-30 am, a drop of blood was seen to be oozing from his fore-head. At 8-41 am, the breathing stopped.

VaLLimalai SwamigaL's soul had departed from his fore-head. This was a Kapala Moksham. Thus the great Siddhas depart from the material body.

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Siddhas and yogis have the power to go into states of suspended animation. They attain temporary sammadhi states. Their bodily activities will become imperceptible. But the soul will be somewhere in their bodies. Sometimes they remove their sould from the body and go outside. Then they would reenter the body.

Just below the uchchanthalai is a very subtle opening. It is called the Brahmarandra. It is otherwise known as the 'dasama dvaara' - the 10th aperture. Why 10th? All are aware of the 9 dvaaras - 'aindhu kallaal oru kOttai; andha aanandha kOttaikku onbathu vaasal' as is mentioned in 'nondi chinhu'. The 9 dvaaras are 2 nostrils, 2 ears, 2 eyes, 1 mouth, 1anus, 1 urethal/sexual opening.

When siddhas and yogis finish their mundane existance, their soul leaves the body ideally through the Brahmarandra. Or through any of the orifices in the head. This is called 'Kapaala MOksha'. When activities cease in the body of the siddha/yogi, the disciples usually take a coconut and break it upon the top of the head to open the Brahmarandra and allow the soul to depart. This is done as a rule for siddhas and yogis.

In the case of VaLLimalai SwamigaL, his fore-head opened automatically, ensuring the release of his soul.