TIRUVANNAMALAI - LORD MOURNING THE DEATH OF KINGS

This applies to dwijas i.e. twice born people like brahmins, kshatriyas and vysyas in particular. It is not obligatory to these sudras, yet nobly brought up emulate the other three. It is going on since the dawn of knowledge or the realisation of the value of theism. It is a common place occurrence still going on in this mad mod materialistic world also. So far so good. Yearning is found justification and the progeny also hold their heads erect for redeeming the debt.

Surprise stupefies the listener or spectator if the gods perform funeral obsequies to their departed votaries. Their parental affection and adherence to the customs is something that defies description. Would prostrations or circumambulations to those august divinities suffice the purpose? Redeem the debt? Match the enormity of affection shown? None can answer. The regular strict performance of funeral obsequies by Annamalair, the presiding deity of the Tiruvannamalai Temple to the departed king Vallala is a monumental example of the Lord's apaarabhakata vatsalya and the king's amogha bhakti tatparata. The circumstances leading too this matchless phenomenon are quite awe-some and unheard of. Even the devout theist to gape and gaze at the narrator. And keep mum unable to call it incredible and impossible. It is solidified truth striking at the face of visitors of Tiruvannamalai Temple.

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