24 April 2021

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MEENAKSHI THIRUKALYANAM || CHITTIRAI BRAHMOTSAVAM || LINGODBHAVA BHAVA SAMADHI DARSHAN || SHANI PRADOSHAM || 24 APRIL 2021

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Video: MEENAKSHI SUNDARESHWARA THIRUKALYANAM

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GLIMPSES OF MEENAKSHI SUNDARESHWARA THIRUKALYANAM || 24 APRIL 2021

WELCOME TO THE MEENAKSHI TIRUKALYANAM CELEBRATIONS IN ADIKAILASA NITHYANANDA PEETHAM, SAN JOSE SARVAJNAPEETHA, LOS ANGELES SARVAJNAPEETHA BY THE GRACE AND BLESSINGS OF THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.

TODAY IS THE 10TH DAY OF THE MEENAKSHI BRAHMOTSAVAM, CALLED THE CHITHIRAI BRAHMOTSAVAM. DURING THE UTTARA PHALGUNI NAKSHATRAM DEVI MEENAKSHI WEDS SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMI, PARAMASHIVA HIMSELF. WE ARE INDEED, BLESSED AND FORTUNATE, TO HAVE PARASHAKTI MEENAKSHI HERSELF, IN THE FORM OF LIVING INCARNATION - THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.

AMONG ALL KALYANOTSAVAM OFFERED TO VARIOUS DEITIES, THIS MEENAKSHI TIRUKALYANAM STANDS DISTINCTLY APART FROM ANY OTHER MARRIAGE CEREMONY FOR MANY REASONS.

THE AGAMAS SAY THAT THE KALYANOTSAVAM SHOULD BE DONE EITHER IN THE MIDNIGHT OR IN THE DAY TIME. MOST OF THE KALYANOTSAVAM HAPPEN IN THE VARIOUS TEMPLES IN THE MIDNIGHT. MEENAKSHI KALYANAM IS UNIQUE IN THIS WAY BECAUSE IT HAPPENS IN THE DAY TIME.

THIS IS A CELESTIAL MARRIAGE CEREMONY, DEVI PARASHAKTI HERSELF CAME IN THE FORM OF MEENAKSHI AND IN THE SANNIDHI OF SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMI MARRIED PARAMASHIVA.

SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMI AND DEVI MEENAKSHI HAD RULED THE KINGDOM OF MADURAI FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.

THIS MARRIAGE CEREMONY IS VERY UNIQUE BECAUSE WHEN PARASHAKTI HAD FIRST ASSUMED THE BODY AS SATI, HER FATHER WAS AN OBSTACLE AND WAS INCOMPLETE ABOUT HER MARRIAGE WITH PARAMASHIVA.

THIS REPRESENTS COMPLETION WITH THE INCOMPLETIONS WHICH ARE PRESENT AT OUR MUSCLE MEMORY. IN HER NEXT BIRTH AS PARVATI, HER MOTHER WAS INCOMPLETE WITH THE MARRIAGE WITH PARAMASHIVA. THIS REPRESENTS THE COMPLETION OF THE BIO-MEMORY.

BUT WHEN DEVI PARASHAKTI ASSUMED THE FORM OF MEENAKSHI BOTH HER FATHER AND MOTHER WERE COMPLETE WITH HER MARRIAGE WITH PARAMASHIVA. ALSO WHEN DEVI WAS IN THE BODY OF DAKSHAYANI OR PARVATI AFTER THE MARRIAGE SHE WENT TO PARAMASHIVA'S ABODE KAILAASA. USUALLY THE BRIDE GOES TO LIVE WITH THE GROOM IN HIS HOME.

BUT HERE AFTER THE MARRIAGE PARAMASHIVA DECIDES TO COME AND STAY IN MADURAI AND RULE OVER THE PANDYA KINGDOM FOR MANY YEARS. THERE IS A RITUAL IN THE HINDU MARRIAGE CALLED THE KANYA DAANA WHERE THE DAUGHTER IS GIVEN AWAY TO THE BRIDEGROOM. ONLY IN THE MEENAKSHI TIRUKALYANAM, INSTEAD OF GIVING AWAY THE KANYA THAT IS MEENAKSHI, SHE JUST REMAINS IN MADHURAI AND PARAMASHIVA COMES FROM KAILAASA TO RULE THE PANDYA KINGDOM WITH HER.

TODAY WE ARE BLESSED TO CELEBRATE THIS HAPPENING ACROSS THE GLOBE, ALONG WITH THE INCARNATION OF SOMASUNDARESHWAR AND MEENAKSHI , OUR BELOVED SWAMIJI - THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.

ANOTHER UNIQUE COMPONENT IN THIS MARRIAGE CEREMONY IS THAT HERE WILL BE TWO PRIEST, REPRESENTING SUNDARESHWARA AND MEENAKSHI AND THEY WILL BE ENACTING THE WHOLE MARRIAGE CEREMONY. WE WILL BE INVOKING SOMADESHWARA AND MEENAKSHI IN THE PRIESTS AND THEY WILL BE PERFORMING.

WE WILL HAVE A DIVINE TIME, WITH JOY, DEVOTION, AND INTENSE SHAKTI PADA WITH SPH SWAMIJI. AS THESE RITUALS ARE HAPPENING.

AS YOU WATCH THE RITUAL YOU WILL GETTING TO KNOW THE RITUALS GOING ON, AND WE WILL BE ALSO GETTING INTO THE LEELA DHYANA OF DEVI MEENAKSHI FROM HALASYAMATHYAM, FROM THE SKANDA PURANA IN THE AGASTHYA SAMHITA.

THESE EVENTS TOOK PLACE MANY YEARS AGO ARE RECREATED WHY THE POSITIONS OF THE CELESTIAL BODIES IN THE COSMOS. WHEN THE CELESTIAL BODIES OF THE SUN MOON, AND OTHER GRAHAS AND NAKSHATRAS ARE ALIGNED IN THE SAME WAY THEY WERE YEARS AGO DURING MEENAKSHI’S MARRIAGE AN INTENSE CLARYVIONCE INVOKES THE PRESENCE OF PARAMASHIVA, PARASHAKTI ALL THE GODS AND GODDESS WHO HAD ATTENDED THIS CELESTIAL WEDDING.

INTRODUCING DEITIES
1. MEENAKSHI
DEVI MEENAKSHI, PARASHAKTI HERSELF IS GRACING DECKED WITH ALL THE JEWELS, HOLDING A PARROT IN HER RIGHT HAND. ADORNED IN SARVALANKARA. COMPLETELY DECKED UP IN THE BRIDAL ALANKARA. WEARING THE RATNA MUKUTA, THE GEM STUDDED CROWN. SHE IS GRACING ON THIS OCCASION OF THE MEENAKSHI TIRUKALYANAM. SHE HAS COME ALL READY AS THE BRIDE FOR THIS AUSPICIOUS OCCASION.

2. PARAMASHIVA -
NOW WE ARE ALL HAVING THE DARSHAN OF PARAMSHIVA, WHO IS EVER WITH DEVI PARASHAKTI THE INSEPARABLE DEVI PIRIYAVIDAI. THE INCARNATION OF PARASHAKTI AND PARAMASHIVA HIMSELF, SWAMIJI. GRACING THROUGH THEIR ARCHAVATARAS IN THE ADI KAILAASA NITHYANANDA PEETHAM. THE DEITY IN THE CENTRE IS PARAMASHIVA HIMSELF SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMI, THE BRIDEGROOM OF THIS KALYANOTSAVAM. ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PIRIYAVIDAI AMMAN THE PARASHAKTI WHO IS EVER WITH PARAMASHIVA HIS ETERNAL CONSORT. ONTO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF PARAMASHIVA, INCARNATION OF MEENAKSHI SUNDARESHWARA HDH SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM IS GRACING ALL OF US. LET US ALL BOW DOWN AT THEIR FEET AND RECEIVE THEIR GRACE AND BLESSINGS ON THIS AUSPICIOUS OCCASION.

MAHAVISHNU :-
ALONG WITH MEENAKSHI AND SOMASUNDARESHWARA WE HAVE MAHAVISHNU HIMSELF GRACING THE WEDDING. HE HAS COME HERE TO DO THE KANYAKA DAANA OF DEVI MEENAKSHI TO PARAMASHIVA SOMSUNDARESHWARA SWAMI. WE CAN ALL SEE ONTO THE RIGHT HAND, VARADA HASTA OF MAHAVISHNU THERE IS A KAMANDALA, THE WATER VESSEL WITH WHICH HE WILL BE DOING THE KANYAKA DAANA. DEVI PARASHAKTI IS SAID TO BE THE YOUNGER SISTER OF MAHAVISHNU. SHE IS ALSO THE VISHNUMAYA,
YAA DEVI SARVABHUUTESHU VISHNUMAAYETI SAMSTHITA.
NAMASTASYAI NAMASTASYAI NAMASTASYAI NAMO NAMAH..
THUS SAYS THE DEVI MAHATMYAM.

DEVI PARASHAKATI THAT VERY VISHNUMAYA HAS COME DOWN AS THE ARCHAVATARA OF DEVI MEENAKSHI, TODAY WHO WILL BE GIVEN IN THE MARRIAGE BY HER VERY BROTHER, MAHAVISHNU, SRIMANNARAYANA. WE ARE NOW HAVING THE DARSHAN OF THAT VERY ARCHAVATARA OF MAHAVISHNU WHO WILL BE DOING THE KANYAKADAANA TODAY. ALONG WITH SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMI, MEENAKSHI DEVI, MAHAVISHNU, WE ALSO HAVE VALLI DEVASENA SAMETHA SRI SUBRAHMANYA SWAMI. ONE OF THE UNIQUE COMPONENTS OF THIS MEENAKSHI TIRUKALYANAM IS PARAMASHIVA AND PARASHAKTI'S SON SUBRAHMANYA SWAMI ATTENDS THEIR PARENTS MARRIAGE. DEVI PARASHAKTI WHEN SHE WAS IN THE BODY OF PARVATI AT THAT PERIOD SUBRAHMANYA HAPPENED BY THE GRACE OF PARAMASHIVA AND PARVATI, DEVI PARASHAKTI. IN THE MADURAI MEENAKSHI TEMPLE FROM THE TIRUPPARANGUNDRAM SUBRAHMANYA SWAMI TEMPLE WILL COME AND ATTEND THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY OF MEENAKSHI AND SUNDARESHWARA SWAMI IN THE MEENAKSHI TEMPLE.

PARAMASHIVA EMERGED OUT OF THE MULA LINGA OF SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMI’S SANNIDHI WEARING ALL THE JEWELS DRESSED UP LIKE A BRIDEGROOM, WITH THE INTENTION TO HOLD THE HANDS OF DEVI PARASHAKTI. WHEREVER DEVI PARASHAKTI WENT PARAMASHIVA ALSO FOLLOWED HER WITH AN INTENTION TO MARRY HER. ALL THE GANAS AND NANDIKESHWARA SWAMI GO AND COMPLAIN TO PARAMASHIVA”O, PARAMASHIVA PLEASE SAVE US, THERE IS ONE GIRL WHO HAS THREE BREASTS SHE IS CONTINUOUSLY CONQUERING US AND NOT LEAVING US.” PARAMASHIVA CONSOLES THE GANAS THAT HE WILL GO AND WIN OVER HER. WITH AN INTENSE DESIRE TO MARRY DEVI PARASHAKTI HE HIMSELF GOES AND FACES DEVI MEENAKSHI. WHEN PARAMASHIVA APPEARED IN FRONT OF DEVI TATATAKA, WHO HAD THREE BREASTS HER THIRD BREAST DISAPPEARED. ON SEEING HER THIRD BREAST DISAPPEAR HER MANTRI HER MINISTER SUMATI, INFORMED DEVI PARASHAKTI , TATATAKA SAID THAT WHISPERING IN THE EARS OF DEVI MEENAKSHI “O, DEVI HE IS YOUR HUSBAND SEE YOUR THIRD BREAST HAS DISAPPEARED.” ON SEEING THAT SHE DROPPED OFF HER BOW AND ARROW AND SHE GOT INTO A DEEP BLUSHFUL MOOD. OUT OF DEEP BLUSHFUL FEELINGS STOOD UNMOVING. DEVI TATATAKA HAD THE DARSHAN OF PARAMASHIVA, WHO IS HAVING THE NAGARAJA ON HIS BODY WEARING THE TIGER CLOTH ON HIS BODY WHO IS HAVING A YAJNOPAVITA AND A DEEP GRACEFUL LOOK. SHE WAS ASTONISHED AND STOOD UNMOVED AS HER THIRD BREAST DISAPPEARED. SHE MERGED IN THE DEEP ONENESS AND LOVE WITH PARAMASHIVA AT THAT VERY MOMENT. IMMEDIATELY PARAMASHIVA SAYS “I WILL MARRY YOU WITH THE CONSENT OF YOUR MOTHER, NOW QUICKLY GO BACK.” IMMEDIATELY DEVI TATATAKA CAME BACK TO THE CITY OF MADURAI. THE MOMENT SHE HAD DARSHAN OF SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMI AND HER THIRD BREAST DISAPPEARED SHE REALIZED HER INCARNATIONHOOD SHE REALIZED THAT SHE IS DEVI PARASHAKTI HERSELF. SHE WAS ABLE TO ENLIGHTEN ANYONE JUST BY HER EYESIGHT JUST LIKE HOW A FISH HATCHES ITS EGGS JUST BY LOOKING AT IT HENCE, SHE WAS CALLED MEENAKSHI. WHOLE CITY OF MADURAI WAS COMPLETELY DECORATED FOR THE MARRIAGE OF MEENAKSHI AND SUNDARESWARAR. THAT HALASYA NATHAR, SOMASUNDARESHWARA HE HIMSELF EMERGED FROM THE MULA LINGA. HE CAME SEATED ON THE VRISHABHA VAHANA, WEARING ALL THE JEWELS AND DRESSED UP LIKE A BRIDEGROOM AT THE RIGHT MUHURTA TO MARRY DEVI MEENAKSHI. TO ATTEND THIS CELESTIAL MARRIAGE ALL THE DEITIES LIKE BRAHMA, SARASWATI, MAHAVISHNU, MAHALAKSHMI EVERYONE STARTED COMING. ALL THE CELESTIAL BEINGS CAME FOR THE WEDDING; THEY OFFERED MANY DIFFERENT OFFERINGS TO PARAMASHIVA. FINALLY KANCHANAMALA AND DEVI TATATAKA HERSELF OFFERED THE MAHARATHI WITH THE KUMKUMA TO SOMASUNDARESHWARA. KANCHANAMALA SAYS TO PARAMASHIVA “O BHAGAVAN PLEASE ACCEPT MY DAUGHTER AS YOUR WIFE AND YOU YOURSELF RESIDE IN THE CITY OF MADURAI AND RULE THE PANDYA KINGDOM.” IMMEDIATELY SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMY ACCEPTED WITH A BLISSFUL SMILE. PARAMASHIVA WAS GIVEN ALL THE DUE RESPECT OF A GUEST. BRAHMA PERFORMED THE HOMA, NARADA AND THE GANDHARVAS SUNG THE SONGS, DEVI MAHALAKSHMI DRESSED UP THE BRIDE, DEVI TATATAKA AND MAHASARASWATI GAVE HER THE TRADITIONAL BATH. DEVI MAHALAKSHMI AND SARASWATI BOUGHT DEVI MEENAKSHI TO SOMSUNDARESHWARA SWAMI IN THE KALYANA MANDAPAM. PARAMASHIVA BLESSED THE WHOLE WORLD BY PUTTING HIS FEET ALONG WITH DEVI MEENAKSHI DOING THE SAPTAPADI WHICH IS TAKEN BY THE BRIDE AND THE BRIDEGROOM IN THE HINDU MARRIAGE.ALL THE DIVINE BEINGS WHO CAME TO THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY OFFERED SO MANY GIFTS AT THE FEET OF SOMASUNDARESHWARA SWAMI AND DEVI MEENAKSHI. AFTER THE GRAND MARRIAGE CEREMONY PARAMASHIVA STAYED BACK IN MADURAI AND RULED THE PANDYA KINGDOM ALONG WITH DEVI MEENAKSHI. AS WE ENTER INTO THE LEELA DHYANA LET US NOW WITNESS THE RITUALS OF THE CELESTIAL MARRIAGE CEREMONY.

Video: LINGODBHAVA BHAVA SAMADHI DARSHAN

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GLIMPSES OF LINGODBHAVA BHAVA SAMADHI DARSHAN || SHANI PRADOSHAM || 24 APRIL 2021

LINGODBHAVA IS THE INCARNATION OF PARAMASHIVA AS A LIGHT SHAFT HAPPENED TO LIBERATE BRAHMA AND VISHNU FROM THE DELUSION. MAHADEVA, BHAGAVAN PARAMASHIVA, APPEARED, IN FRONT OF VISHNU, AND BRAHMA, GAVE DARSHAN TO BOTH OF THEM AND REMOVED THEIR EGO, BLESSED BOTH OF THEM AND REVEALED THE ULTIMATE TRUTH.

BHAGAVAN MAHAVISHNU AND BHAGAVAN BRAHMA EXPERIENCED BHAGAVAN PARAMASHIVA IN THE FORMLESS FORM. THE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, AS A LIGHT BEAM, THE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS.

SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE FROM ARUNACHALA PURANA - THE HAPPENING OF LINGODBHAVA
BRAHMA IS THE CREATOR. HE IS THE CREATION PRINCIPLE. HE WAS CREATED AND MANIFESTED FROM THE CREATION PRINCIPLE OF PARAMASHIVA. PARAMASHIVA’S FIVE HEADS - FROM ONE HEAD, THE CREATION PRINCIPLE MANIFESTS AS BRAHMA AND FROM BRAHMA, CREATION HAPPENS. SAME WAY, VIṢHṆU MANIFESTED FOR MAINTENANCE.

VIṢHṆU AND BRAHMA ARE ATTENTION-DRAWING COLOURFUL ACTION. THEY DELUDE THEMSELVES THAT THEY ARE BOTH ULTIMATE AND BETWEEN THEM THEY START FIGHTING AS TO WHO IS GREATER? BRAHMA REPRESENTS KNOWLEDGE AND VISHNU REPRESENTS WEALTH. KNOWLEDGE IS REQUIRED FOR CREATION AND WEALTH IS REQUIRED FOR MAINTENANCE.

PARAMASHIVA MANIFESTED AS DEEPA STAMBHA, JYOTHI STAMBHA TO BRAHMA AND VISHNU LIBERATING THEM FROM DELUSION AS TO WHO IS MORE POWERFUL OR IMPORTANT AMONGST THEM. THERE WAS A BIG CHAOS AND STAGNANCY IN THE COSMOS. PARAMASHIVA HAD TO INTERVENE! PARAMASHIVA APPEARS AS A LIGHT SHAFT AND TELLS THEM, “WHOEVER FINDS MY HEAD OR FEET FIRST IS THE MORE POWERFUL PERSON.”

IMMEDIATELY BRAHMA TAKES THE FORM OF A SWAN AND FLIES UPWARDS SAYING, “I WILL GO AND FIND YOUR HEAD.” VISHNU TAKES THE FORM OF A VARAHA (PIG) - SAYING, “I WILL GO AND FIND YOUR FEET.”

BOTH ARE NOT ABLE TO FIND EITHER THE HEAD OR FEET. VISHNU ACCEPTS THAT HE IS NOT ABLE TO FIND, BUT BRAHMA, NOT ONLY HE WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND THE HEAD, BUT HE WAS NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT IT.

THEY BOTH START FEELING THAT THEY ARE BOTH ULTIMATE, AND THE NEXT LEVEL DELUSION IS THAT THEY BOTH ARE FIGHTING AS TO WHO IS MORE POWERFUL. NATURALLY, PARAMASHIVA HAS TO LIBERATE THEM FROM THEIR DELUSION. NEITHER CREATION, NOR SUSTENANCE IS ULTIMATE. ULTIMATE IS LIBERATION! PARAMASHIVA PULLS BOTH OF THEM OUT OF DELUSION AND LIBERATES THEM.

THE MOMENT PARAMASHIVA APPEARS AS JYOTIR LINGA, HE TELLS BRAHMA AND VISHNU, “WHOEVER FINDS MY HEAD OR FEET, WILL BE DECLARED AS SUPREME.” BRAHMA BECOMES A SWAN AND FLIES TOWARDS THE HEAD. THE SWAN ALWAYS LIVES IN THE LOTUS. HE SHOULD HAVE ACTUALLY GONE TO FIND THE LOTUS FEET! VISHNU TAKES THE FORM OF A PIG. THE PIG ALWAYS LIVES IN FOREST. HE SHOULD HAVE ACTUALLY TAKEN THE DECISION TO GO TOWARDS PARAMASHIVA’S JATAA - FOREST!

BOTH COULD NOT FIND THE TWO ENDS. VISHNU GOES ON DIGGING. EVEN THEN HE REACHES ONLY UP TO THE CALF MUSCLE OF PARAMASHIVA. TO MARK THAT, HE TIES A BELL ON PARAMASHIVA’S CALF MUSCLE. THAT IS WHY IN ALL SHIVA DEITIES, THERE WILL BE A BELL ON SHIVA’S CALF MUSCLES. BRAHMA TAKES THE FORM OF A SWAN AND FLIES, AND HIS AGE IS ALMOST OVER. HE THEN FINDS THAT HE CANNOT FIND THE HEAD. HHEE THEN SEES A FLOWER FALLING. HE ASKS, “WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM?”. THE FLOWER SAYS, “FROM SHIVA’S EARS.” HE ASKS, “SINCE WHEN ARE YOU FALLING?” THE FLOWER SAYS, “FOR FOUR BRAHMA’S AGE.”

KNOWLEDGE ALWAYS HAS EGO. IT CANNOT ACCEPT DEFEAT. BRAHMA WHO REPRESENTS KNOWLEDGE ASKS THE FLOWER, CAN YOU SUPPORT ME BY SAYING THAT I BROUGHT YOU FROM THE HEAD OF PARAMASHIVA? I WILL GIVE YOU LOTS OF BOONS.” THE FLOWER GOT A LITTLE TEMPTED.

BRAHMA GOES TO PARAMASHIVA AND LIES SAYING, “I FOUND YOUR HEAD AND THIS IS THE WITNESS.” THE MOMENT PARAMASHIVA STARES AT BOTH OF THEM, BOTH THE FLOWER WITHERS AND THE SWAN’S FEATHERS BURN AWAY.

BRAHMA GETS THE CURSE THAT HE WILL NEVER BE WORSHIPPED ANYMORE AND THE FLOWER GETS CURSED THAT IT WILL NEVER BE USED IN SHIVA PUJA. THEN BRAHMA DOES TAPAS AND ASKS FOR FORGIVENESS.

PARAMASHIVA IS ETERNAL COMPASSION. HE SAYS, “YOU WILL BE THERE IN ALL MY TEMPLES, NORTH FACING, WHERE MY SACRED BATH WATER WILL COME THROUGH THE GOMUKHA, AND FROM THAT WATER, YOU CAN DO THE CREATION. THE FLOWER WAS GIVEN THE ‘SHAAPA VIMOCHANA’ THAT ONCE A YEAR, FOR SHIVARATRI DAY, THE FLOWER WILL BE USED FOR SHIVA PUJA, NOT ANY OTHER TIME.

EVEN NOW, IN TIRUVANNAMALAI, THE LINGODBHAVA WILL BE WORSHIPPED WITH ‘TAAZHAM POO’ ONLY ON SHIVARATRI DAY. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE DEEPER LAYERS AND MEANING. KNOWLEDGE AND WEALTH CANNOT SHOW YOU THE ULTIMATE AND IT IS NOT ULTIMATE. ENLIGHTENMENT ALONE IS ULTIMATE! BOTH VIṢṆU AND BRAHMA REQUESTED SHIVA TO RETAIN HIS FORM AS THAT SHAFT OF LIGHT TO BLESS THE UNIVERSE. AT THEIR REQUEST, SHIVA, IN THAT FORM OF DIVINE LIGHT, BECAME ARUNĀCALA, THE GLOWING MOUNTAIN IN TIRUVANNAMALAI!

TRUE TO HIS PROMISE, PARAMASHIVA RETAINED HIS FORM AS THE ARUNĀCALA MOUNTAIN, ASSUMED THE FORM OF THE ŚIVALIṄGA CALLED ARUNĀCALEŚVARA, AT THE TEMPLE IN TIRUVANNAMALAI AND IS INCARNATING CONTINUOUSLY KEEPING THE UNBROKEN LINEAGE OF ENLIGHTENED BEINGS IN TIRUVANNAMALAI TILL DATE.