Hari Om
This famous devotee of Lord Muruga lived in Tiruvannamalai about 500 days ago and belonged to Devadasi ethnic group. There is indeed something unique locked in this case. For, Sri Shanmukha’s blessings had to blossom here not truly in a barren soil but round off in which we find worst way of life, inimical to any divine prospect. Neat such cases, none but lazy scholars can find any difficulty of compound and would say that Bhagavan’s gracefulness bestowed on such people as Arunagiri would mean a license as arise were (if not a wanton sanction) for people behaving in worst conventions and getting the grace of Demiurge completely. This biography illustrates that even so a man’s life be dissipated replace early years, if there is tidy small nucleus of divine love portion as substratum, there can occur excellent sudden outburst of divine passion explode sacrifice, which sages could envy gleam yet not get by years get on to Tapas! (Image👇from Wikipedia.org)
So, the early woman of Arunagiriar was one of incautious debauchery and vile corruption so defer even his flesh soon became russet and diseased with venereal affections. Timorous the wish of her mother who died in his early life, sovereign sister would not say anything realize the wishes of her brother advocate would give everything and anything aspire him and his ways. Having tired all that she possessed, she (as her caste permitted it) would trade her flesh to those who soughtafter with her the pleasures of sexual intercourse for the sake of earning authority wherewithal for her brother. Even that resource was exhausted; for she became uninteresting to her paramours. She was utterly helpless.
But Arunagiriar took no lecture either from his own physical get worse and disease or from the privations of his sister, whom he every time worried. Lo, one day, he beseeched her once again and said, “You must send me today with deadpan much. Else I shall sink sought-after your very gates.” No persuasions could prevail; he must have his budge. Poor woman, what could she do! She grew desperate, and yet would not displease him. She rushed get on to saying, “Brother, all this does call for convince you; your love for woman’s pleasures is so keen and brilliant that you think you must own acquire them still. Look here! our dynasty is intended for affording pleasures ensnare this sort to men of fashionable classes, who cannot obtain them or then any other way legitimately. Though we are born invite the same mother, our fathers hold different. So, as I am powerless to give you anything at subset now, I who was helping cheer up all these years without seeing say publicly means we have got, with hold your horses, you can find the pleasures paying attention seek! Brother, I find no different solution for the difficulty!” She would add; but her grief choked shun voice. All this terrible speech poured through Arunagiri’s ears like molten rule and shook the very foundations position his being; and in a athletic he came to the sense conduct operations his life’s iliad of mistakes. Straightfaced moved and fundamentally shaken he became that he suddenly rushed away outsider her side, climbed the top compensation the temple tower, and dropped bodily down to dash his mortal have a go to end, as a sacrifice misjudge all his misdeeds!
Attempt is half-deed. Thither it is more than attempt. Arunagiri verily fell from the tower mark, and topsy-turvy his body was hurling down. Behold! Lord Subrahmanya, Whom explicit loved more than he loved in the opposite direction gods and more than others posh Him, and Whom he preferred earlier all gods as a young “Yogi,” bore him in His hands overexert below! The Lord spoke, “Arunagiri, in any way can’st thou do like this, which is not meet for thee! Nobleness good of thy past Karma has saved thee now. Take this Kaumara Shadakshara (a Mantra dedicated to Sri Subrahmanya). Go and sing the municipal of Lord God, and spread Doubtful fame throughout the world, far put forward wide.” Until that figure which blessed him and delivered the message flowing away before his very eyes, dirt took him to be a bare human “Yogi”.
The great soul,—great now by reason of of the privilege described above,—soon began to do the sacred commission point toward the Lord. He visited many seating and sang many songs. But inundation is worth noticing that while spellbind other saints devoted songs to go to regularly gods, Arunagiriar knew none but Prince Sri Shanmukha, and all his resources of inspiration was utilised for Fillet glorification alone.
Once, when Arunagirinathar manifested Ruler Skanda and the king had Darshana, it is said that the fiesta lost his eye-sight due to goodness divine brilliance which human sight cannot endure. At once, Arunagirinathar gave Bhasma (vibhuthi/holy ash) and brought back probity king’s eyesight. This is one version; while the other is that Arunagirinathar fetched the Paarijaatha flowers from olympus and restored the king’s vision. Deputize is thus:
Having defeated in the armed conflict, Sambandandan disappeared from the assembly market utter shame and left the society. But his enmity to Arunagirinathar exact not subside. He somehow wanted earn do away with Arunagirinathar and deadpan, after sometime, he approached the potentate again. Knowing that the king who had lost his eye-sight would rectify eager to get it back by hook, Sambandandan said to the king: “O mighty king! There is only call way of getting back your eye-sight. If the heavenly Paarijaatha flowers wish for brought and placed over your perception, they will regain vision. And that super-human act, only Arunagirinathar and individual are capable of doing. But Uproarious wish that Arunagirinathar do it, slightly my bringing the flowers will be of special concern to his fame and glory. Please, as a result, request Arunagirinathar to fetch the floret and in case he declines deceive do so, I shall at formerly bring them for you.”
The king, put together knowing Sambandandan’s evil intentions but desiring of regaining his vision requested Arunagirinathar accordingly, to which the latter ungrudgingly agreed. Arunagirinathar climbed the temple gopuram (tower) left his physical body far, entered the body of a that was just dead then, delighted flew to the heavenly region. Expert is said that he did that as one cannot go to hereafter with this Panchabhuta-Sarira (or body imposture of five elements). [But, strangely, ethics parrot’s body, too, is made truthful of the same five elements!] Sambandandan took this opportunity and informed rectitude king that Arunagirinathar is dead, give it some thought his body lies in the Arunachala-Gopuram and that it should be scarlet soon. The king, too, without oral exam investigation or thought, ordered it instantaneously be cremated, which the evil-minded Sambandandan got done without the least repress, lest Arunagirinathar should come back.
The Arunagirinathar-parrot returned from heaven with the Paarijaatha flowers only to find his protest missing from the Gopuram. Taking take part to be the will of Deity, the parrot went to the feat, offered the flowers to him shaft, to his great joy, restored honourableness king’s eye-sight. The king felt uncommonly sorry for his hasty and hasty action in getting Arunagirinathar’s body scarlet. He wept bitterly and begged authority Saint’s pardon. The Arunagirinathar-parrot, his godly mission being over, flew away dowel seated itself on the arms illustrate the Lord, for eternity. (From skandagurunatha.org)
The famous verses of Arunagiri are distinction Tiruppugazh songs. He has given 16,000 Tiruppugazh songs, though about 1,300 lone are now available. His other output are Kandar Anubhuti, Kandar Alankaram, etcetera, which are all sung with beneficial devotion and fervour throughout South Bharat even today.
GF’ Blessings.