LORD MURUGAN Legend -07

When Lord Murugan was with Lord Siva upon Mount Kailasa, Lord Indra together with Lord Visnu and Lord Brahma approached Lord Siva and reported the cruel deeds of the asuras and asked Him to put a stop to it.

Siva asked Murugan to go with an army and destroy the asura monsters and thereby put an end to the suffering of the devas. He gave Lord Murugan the power to destroy Surapadma and his brothers and any army of asuras. For this he presented Murugan with a marvelous spear, the Vel.

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Lord Siva made Murugan to sit on His lap and asked him the meaning of 'OM'. Murugan whispered the meaning to Lord Siva's ear. Thus he became Swami Nathan, the lord of his own father.

Visnu's daughters Amirta Valli and Sundara Valli both wanted to marry Lord Murugan and were praying to him at Saravana Poikai.

Murugan appeared before them and arranged for Amirta Valli to be born as the daughter of Lord Indra and for Sundara Valli to become the daughter of sage Siva Muni and to be adopted by a hunter chieftain as his step daughter.

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Once Lord Brahma came to Mount Kailasa and walked in proudly. Lord Murugan called Brahma and asked him for the meaning of the pranava mantra 'OM'.

Brahma replied that "Om means Lord Brahma."

Angered, Murugan gave Brahma a beating on all four heads and kicked him out of the place. Murugan then threw Brahma in prison at Kandaverpilai. Then he himself took over the job of creation, protection and destruction of the universe.

Lord Siva came to know about Brahma's imprisonment and sent Nandi to request Murugan to release Brahma. But Murugan ignored the request.

When Narada told Siva about Murugan's refusal to release Brahma, Siva laughed and he himself came to Lord Murugan, released Brahma and gave him back his work of Creation.

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The Krittikāmaidens prayed to Lord Siva. Siva blessed them and said, "Since my son was brought up by you, those who pray to Lord Murugan on Karttikai days will obtain all they want." Narada Rishi performed puja and from the homam a big ram emerged and started killing people. Narada could not do anything about it, so he reported it to Siva and asked him to control the ram. Veerabahu controlled the ram and presented it to Lord Murugan as his riding vehicle.

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From the chilambu (anklet) worn by Parvati nine saktis were produced and with the help of Lord Siva these saktis were transformed into nine brothers of Lord Murugan. Veerabahu was one of them. Lord Siva went to Saravana Poikai with Parvati, who embraced Lord Murugan, nursed him with her milk and brought him before Lord Siva. Siva took Murugan in his arms and made Murugan sit with him and Parvati. Brahma, Visnu and Indra were pleased and showered flowers upon Lord Murugan.

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With a bright body, six faces and twelve arms,Lord Murugaappeared on a red lotus.

Six Krittika maidens discovered the six baby boys as per the order of Lord Visnu. Each took one to herself to nurse.

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Once in the Himālayas, Parvati prayed to Lord Siva to help her to take a new birth so that tha name of Dakshayani, daughter of Daksha, would be removed. As per her request the Lord ordered her to become a child of Kamavan, the King of the Hills. Parvati became the child of Kamavan and at the age of five she started praying to Lord Siva.

Surapadman the asura was ruling the three worlds and was troubling the devas and torturing them. The devas went to Lord Siva and requested him to help them. Siva promised them that he would make an end to Surapadma's life by creating a son of his own.

Siva took six faces on his head and created six heads and created six flames from each of his faces. Due to the terrific heat produced from the light the devas all fled. Parvati also could not resist the heat and ran away. Aranar collected all the six sparks and gave them to Vayu the wind god. Vayu gave the sparks to Agni the fire god as he also could not bear the heat. Agni gave them to River Ganga and finally Ganga surrendered the six sparks into Saravana Poikai, a marshy pond in Himalaya.