Kandhar Alangaram - The Divine Spell (13) : Heavenly Adornment

 


Oruvaraip pangil udaiyaal Kumaaranudai mani ser

Thiruvaraik kinkini osaipada thidukkittu arakkar

Veruvarath thikkuch sevidupattu ettu verppum kanakap

Paruvaraik kunrum athirndhana devar payam kettadhe.

The sound of the Kinkini, a beautiful ornament adorning the garment of Lord Murugan, the son of Ambika, who has the incomparable Lord Shiva as one half of Himself, can be heard.

The very moment the asuras hear that sound, their hearts suddenly tremble with fear. The sound does not stop there. It spreads across all eight directions, reaching even the eight great mountains in those directions and making them tremble as though their ears were blocked. It spreads all the way to the golden Mount Meru and causes it to reverberate as well.

Through this, Arunagirinathar speaks of the immense power of even the tiny ornament that adorns the body of Lord Murugan.

If such immense power belongs to even the Lord’s peacock, rooster, and the tiny ornament that adorns His body, then how immeasurable must the greatness and power of the Lord Himself be? The truth is that it is beyond even our imagination to comprehend or describe.

There is another beautiful aspect in this verse.

Lord Shiva is one whose greatness, virtues, glory, and fame are so incomparable that no one else can be named as His equal. Therefore, Arunagirinathar refers to Him as “the One”.

And rather than saying, “the Lord who has Ambika as one half of Himself,” he says, “Ambika, who has the Lord as one half of Herself.”

The world has always referred to them as Ammaiyappan—Mother and Father. It beautifully seems to remind us of the natural order of life, where the mother is spoken of first, followed by the father.

We shall meet again in the next post.

Shanmugapriya K Sambathkumar

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