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Kannappa Nayanar (Devotee of Lord Shiva)
Nagan was the king of hunters at Uduppur in Pottapi Nadu. His
wife was Tattai. They were great devotees of Lord Subramanya. By His grace,
they had a child, after a long time. It was very heavy so, they named him
Tinnanar.
Tinnanar was Arjuna in the previous birth, according to Tiru
Kalahasthi Puranam. When he went to worship Siva, to get Pasupatha Astra, and
when the Lord came to him as a hunter, Arjuna did not recognize Him. So, he had
to be born as a hunter again and adore the Lord, before attaining Final
Liberation.
Tinnanar was educated according to the hunters”customs. He
became a good archer. Even when he was young, his father retired, and crowned
him king. Though he was a hunter and carried on hunting as his Dharma, Tinnanar
was full of love and would not kill young ones, females, diseased animals, etc.
Spiritually, he had already killed the animals within himself, viz., lust,
anger, greed, vanity, etc.
One day, Tinnanar went out hunting. A pig escaped from its net
and was running away. Tinnanar pursued it accompanied by two others, Nanan and
Kadan. The pig was tired and stood near a tree. It was quickly killed by
Tinnanar. They were tired, too, and thirsty. They proceeded towards the
Ponmukali. Tinnanar wanted to climb the nearby mountain. Nanan, too,
volunteered to follow him, saying that on that, the Kalahasthi hill, there was
Lord Kudumithevar (God with a Tuft). Kadan was busy cooking the pork.
Even when he began to climb the hill, there was a definite
change coming over Tinnanar, owing to past Samskaras. He felt that a great
burden was being lifted off his shoulders. He was losing body-consciousness. As
he saw the Lord there, he felt supreme love surging in his heart. He embraced
the Lingam and kissed It. He began to shed tears of joy. He felt that the Lord
was lonely there, and that he should thenceforth remain with Him. Again, he
thought that the Lord might be hungry. Though he was reluctant to leave the
Lord alone, he quickly came down the hill to fetch some food for the Lord. He
took the best pieces of the pork, tasted them and ear-marked the very best for
Him. In the mean time, he gathered from Nanan that the Lord was worshipped
daily with water, flowers, etc, before the food was offered to Him. So, he
began to collect the other articles of worship. He filled his own mouth with
water from the river. Flowers, he gathered and wore them on his head! He took
the pork, bow and arrow and went up the hill again, alone this time.
At the temple, Tinnanar poured from his mouth, the water that he
had brought for His worship. That was his “Abhishekam”. Then he decorated the
Lingam with the flowers he had brought on his own head. This was his “Archana’.
He then placed the pork before the Lord. He went out and stood guard for Him,
at the entrance, lest some wild animals should hurt Him. In the morning again
he went out to hunt and bring fresh food for the Lord.
In the mean time, Nanan and Kadan worried about the change that
had come over Tinnanar (which they thought to be madness). They went and
reported the matter to Tinnanar’s parents. They came and tried, in vain, to
take him back. They, too, went away.
When Tinnanar left the temple in the morning to get food for the
Lord, Sivagochariar, the temple priest, came there for the usual orthodox
worship. He was horrified at the desecration that some unknown person had done
in the temple. He was well versed in the Agamas (rituals of Siva-worship). He
performed the necessary purificatory rites and took bath again and began his
formal worship. He brought water in a holy pot, with a bandage around his own
mouth, lest the breath of his mouth should pollute it. He brought fresh flowers
in a holy basket. He brought fruits and sweets, newly made and unpolluted by
anyone tasting it, before the Lord for being offered to Him. He went home after
the worship.
Tinnanar returned with fresh meat. He removed the priest’s
decorations, and did the worship in his own way, and then as usual, stood guard
at the entrance.
This went on for five days. The priest was greatly upset about
the desecration of the holy place. He appealed to the Lord to stop it. Lord
Siva wanted to show to Sivagochariar the nature of Tinnanar’s supreme devotion.
He commanded him in a dream, to hide himself behind the Lingam, when Tinnanar
went to the temple the next day, and watch what took place.
On the sixth day, Tinnanar went out as usual for getting the
Lord’s food. While returning, he saw many ill omens, which made him feel that
something had happened to the Lord he was so unconscious of himself, that he
did not think that something could happen to him. He ran towards the Lord. He
was grieved to see blood issuing from the Lord’s right eye. The articles he had
brought for the worship dropped from his hand. He wept bitterly. He could not
find who had done this to the Lord. He treated the eye with herbs he knew of.
Still the bleeding did not stop. A simple idea occurred to him “flesh for
flesh’. At once, with his own arrow, he took out his own right eye, and fixed
it over the right eye of the Lord. The bleeding stopped. He was very happy.
When he was dancing in ecstasy, he noticed that the Lord’s left eye had begun
to bleed. But, he had already found out the remedy. There was only one problem
how to locate the eye of the Lord, when his own eye had been pulled out. So,
Tinnanar planted his foot at the place where the Lord’s left eye was on the
Lingam, and began to pull his left eye out, with his arrow.
At once, Lord Siva caught hold of his hand and said “My dear
child, Kannappa! Stop plucking your eye.”The Lord repeated the word Kannappa
thrice. Kannappar was thrice blessed. Tinnanar became Kannappar, because he
gave his own eye to the Lord. Lord Siva took him with both Hands, and kept him
on His right side. Kannappar regained his vision and lived as god himself.
Sivagochariar understood the true nature of devotion.
This story has an esoteric meaning, too. Nayanar had conquered
all other evils but, Anava Malam or egoism had to be killed, too. The wild pig
represents this. Supreme Bhakti dawned, the moment this was killed. In its
chase, the seeker is accompanied by good and evil (the two hunters Nanan and
Kadan). Nanan (good) described the glory of the Lord to him Nanan represents
good Samskaras. Kadan (the evil) had to be left behind. The aspirant with good
Samskaras, goes to His Presence. But, when he has to attain God-realisation,
even this has to be renounced. Hence, Nayanar, when he went to worship Him,
went alone. Nayanar’s parents (the hidden good and evil tendencies and worldly
desires) tried but failed to take him away from God. The Lord asked the priest
to hide behind Him, while Tinnanar was in front this means, true Bhakti is far
superior to mere ritual. Tinnanar’s readiness to pluck out his own eyes for His
sake is total self-surrender or Atma-Nivedan, the highest peak of devotion
which immediately reveals the Lord in all His glory.
Guruji. A. Sivaguru Swamy
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