Dhyanam of Dandaayuthapani Swamy of Palani

कल्पद्रुमं प्रणमतां कमलारुणाभं

स्कन्दं भुजद्वयम् अनामयं एकवक्त्रं

कार्त्यायनी प्रियसुतं कटिबद्धवामं

कौपीन दण्डधर दक्षिण हस्तं ईडे

Kalpadrumam pranamataam kamalaarunaabham

skandam bhujadwayam anaamayam ekavaktram

kaarthyaayanee priyasutam katibaddha vaamam

kaupeena dandadhara dakshina hastameedey

I prostrate before and worship that celestial divine wish yielding tree in the form of Skanda (Lord Muruga) ,

who is having the shining red colour of lotus and the rising sun,

who is manifesting with two hands and a single face,

who removes all maladies of his devotees,

who is the darling son of Devi Karthyaayani,

who keeps his left palm firmly on his flank'

who wields a staff on his right hand

and

who is dressed merely in a loincloth(kaupeenam).

(This is the Dhyanam of Dandaayuthapani Swamy of Palani)

You are the fruit.. Pazham nee appaa..

You are the fruit.. Pazham nee appaa..


The Avvayar story which shows the lady saint as a mediator between the lord Murugan and his father Shiva after Murugan left his parents at Kailasam and lived alone in the Palani Hills seems to be a later addition to the lore.

Surely the period of Avvayar is much later than Agastya and Idumba who discovered Murugan at Palani earlier and had a glorious company.

The story is that Avvayar while wandering around..the place might be Palani too..found a boy sitting atop a jamun.. njaaval pazham tree.

The lady was hungry and it was hot in the midday.
The old lady asked the lad to throw down some fruits for her.
The impish boy asked..
" Grandmother, do you want hot fruits or cold fruits__ paatti ..shutta pazham venumaa sudaatha pazham venumaa? "

The granny was angry.. she thought the boy was making fun of her.
So being sure that a fruit from
a tree cannot be hot, she asked for the hot fruits.
The boy shook the branches of the tree and jamun fruits showered down.
The fruits were covered with dust.
So Avvai picked up the fruits and blew over them to remove the dust.
The naughty boy up the tree quipped.."Grandma the fruit is really hot is it not? You are blowing over them to make them cold."

The great lady then understood that the lad up in the tree was not an ordinary child.
It was the Son of Her lord Shiva.. the wonder child who was the personification of all the beauty anywhere and the sweet sweet language Tamil itself -Murugan

However the name Pazhani stuck to that place because the young Murugan had come there because a fruit was denied to him and his father lord Shiva who came in search of him told him "why should you ask for a fruit.?.you are yourself the fruit of all knowledge..pazham nee..பழம் நீ..

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  From the stala puranam of Palani. We know the chlid Muruga has reached the hill to reside there permanently because he had got angry with his parents on the question of  a fruit supplied by the wily Narada which the elder brother Ganesha managed to get as a present from the parents. The child, not more than three years old was just running around and playing among the peacocks and snakes in the hillock. Sage Agastya was there with his disciple Idumba, residing by the side of the hill. The boisterous play of the child distracted him and he was rather impatient. He saw the child, and as luck would have it, did not recognize the Master of the World there and started advising the child to go elsewhere and not cause nuisance to him. The naughty child said, "you old man, if you are so irritated with we, you can go away and stay somewhere else." The puny but powerful sage was enraged. The slip of a child talking to him like that! He wanted to finish off the child. He chanted many mantras and threw some ashes on the boy. In the normal course the sage expected the child to be burned to ashes. But the child was still there unmoved, just laughing and playing. The child in turn gave the sage a small piece from the dried sandal paste He was wearing on his forehead and asked the sage to taste it. The sage was skeptical but still put a little piece of that into his mouth. Suddenly he lost balance of himself and started flying in the space as if catapulted from a rocket-launcher  and knowing no means of of coming back. Suddenly realization dawned on him. It was the son of his master who had come there to purify the South India. He apologized and was taken back to his own place. The sage made himself the disciple of the Lord Muruga, and the siddha system of medicine is said to have come from Muruga himself through Agastya and his disciples like bhogs. Even now, in Palani a particular type of sandal paste which is placed in the body of the idol during night is given as rare prasadam in the morning for the devotees to eat. It is called raakkaal chandanam 

  
  

  
  

  
  

                   Pazhani Andavar did not reside there all alone for long time. The lovely brother and the doting parents would not let him. They followed him without any delay. Wherever you go in Palni, you will find only Ganapatis. The brother was so affectionate that he was running round the younger one to take him back to Kailas. You will find many ganapathis here with Murugan sitting in his lap. Their love is model for fraternal affection. Even now when we prepare kavadi one of the legs is adorned by Murugan and the other is by Ganapathi. We actually invoke Mahaganapathi also in the mudra. After Agastya left, the boy had a tiff with Idumba also. In fact the two hillocks were being carried on the ends of a huge rod by this rakshasa Idumba, and being carried south. When this Idumba saw this boy he tried to remove him. The boy simply give him a short kick and the demon was dead. Then his family entreated with the Lord and the pleased lord  revived him  decided that his own presence will be there at the top and Idumba or idumbas presence willbe in the middle. He also ordained that the first puja in palni should be given to Idumba, "Idumbanukku muthal poosai".
   The master of Siddhaa, sage Bhoga, later on finding the presence of Murugua in the mountain, started worshipping him in an idol made of nava paashaana....nins rocklike medicines.. and this is the idol which is still there. Bhoga has recorded that he has made nine such idols and when time comes the next idols will be revealed in succession. There is a cave route between the place of Bhoga and Garbagriham at Palni.. we can see the samadhi of Bhoga and the Marakatha lingam of Shiva which was worshipped by Bhoga in the temple even now. The puuja at the bhogar samadhi is even now being conducted by a descendent of that great physician sage. The worship of the temple was entrusted to the local people, Pandarams or Othuvars. But the potency of the lord was too great and the people stared witnessing depletion in their population. So they brought in the Sivacharyas (Gurukkals ) for pooja. The presiding gurukkal in Palani is held in great reverence . He is called TavarajaPandita.

              

  
  

   Going back to Bhogas time, one of the disciples of Bhoga was a sage named Pulippani (vyagrapada) and it is said that this sage rode on a tiger and used to bring water for the abhishekam of dandayuthapani from the nearby varattaru. By his yogic powers, he would just take water in a big globe without any contained. This Vyagrapada is supposed to be a nambuthiri and while he was in his moksha stage, he asked the Lord to go to Kerala. People from kerala were thronging Palani even in those times. The assuranace given by god is that He will stand facing west, looking at Kerala, and if and when a day comes when a Kavadi from Kerala is not reaching Palani He would come to Kerala. 
   Till this day that has not happened.

hara haro hara

pazhani aanadvanukku hara haro hara

today is thaipoosam. it is a special function for palkkad iyers, at least ten percent of the Palakkad iyer population in palakkad and a substantial number of PIs from elsewhere would converge at Palani to have a glimpse of Sri Dandayuthapani Swami. It will be a Kavadi galore at Palani. Lakhs of them. The simple child at Palni stands dispensing all happiness and prosperity to all who call Him from any where. Let us do our pranams to Him.

कल्पद्रुमं प्रणमतां कमलारुणाभम्

स्कन्दं भुजद्वयमनामयमेकवक्त्त्रम्

कार्ल्यायनीप्रियसुतं कटिबद्धवामम्

कौपीनदण्डधरदक्षिण हस्तमीडे।।

I bow with humility before that Divine Tree which yields all the desires of the ardent devotees (kalpaka vriksha found in Heaven),  which is called Skanda having  the colour of the attractive reddish  lotus, the child having two arms ...the right one wielding a staff and the left placed firmly  on His hips,  the darling boy of the Divine mother Kaathyaayanee,  the divine being without any sorrows and always removing the sorrows of all who are beholden to Him,  the recluse master-child who has just his loin-clothes by way of cloth

hara haro hara

പഴനി ആണ്ടവരുക്ക് ഹര ഹരോ ഹര 

ഇന്ന് തൈപ്പൂയം ആണ്. 

പാലക്കാടന്മാര്‍ക്ക് എല്ലാം പഴനിക്കു പോകാനുള്ള ദിവസം. ഒരുപാടു മലയാളികള്‍ പഴനിയാണ്ടാവനെ ദര്‍ശിക്കാന്‍ പഴനിമല കയറുന്ന ദിവസം. 

മലയാളികളുടെ കാവടികളുടെ പ്രവാഹം 

ജ്ഞാനപണ്ഡിതന്‍ ആണെങ്കിലും നിഷ്കളങ്കന്‍ ആയ ആ കൊച്ചു ബാലന്‍ തന്നെ തേടി വരുന്നവരെയെല്ലാം സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ട് അവര്‍ക്ക് എല്ലാമെല്ലാം എപ്പോഴും കൊടുത്തുകൊണ്ട് പഴനിമലയുടെ മുകളില്‍ നില്‍ക്കുന്നു.

കല്പദ്രുമം പ്രണമതാം കമലാരുണാഭം 

സ്കന്ദം ഭുജദ്വയമനാമയമേകവക്ത്ത്രം 

കാര്‍ത്യായനീപ്രിയസുതം കടിബദ്ധവാമം 

കൌപീനദണ്ഡധരദക്ഷിണ ഹസ്തമീഡേ॥ 

വളരെയേറെ ഭക്തിയോടും വിനയത്തോടും കൂടി ഞാന്‍ ആ സ്കന്ദനെ പ്രണമിച്ചു ആശ്രയിക്കുന്നു 

അവന്‍ കാല്‍ക്കല്‍ വീണു വണ്ടിക്കുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് ആശിച്ചതെല്ലാം നല്‍കുന്ന കല്പകവൃക്ഷമാണ് 

അവന്റെ നിറം വിടര്‍ന്ന ചെന്താമാരയ്ക്കും ഉദിക്കുന്ന സൂര്യനും തുല്യമാണ് 

അവന്‍ (പഴനിയില്‍ ) രണ്ടു കൈകളോടെ നമ്മെ അനുഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നു 

അവന്‍ എല്ലാ വിധമായ അല്ലലുകള്‍ക്കും അലട്ടലുകള്‍ക്കും അതീതനാണ് 

അവന്‍ (പഴനിയില്‍) ഒരു മുഖത്തോടുകൂടി ദര്‍ശനം നല്‍കുന്നു 

അവന്‍ കാര്‍ത്യായനിയായ ഉമയുടെ പൊന്നോമനമകന്‍ ആണ് 

അവന്‍റെ ഇടതു കൈ അരക്കെട്ടില്‍ ഉറപ്പിച്ചാണ് അവന്‍ നില്‍ക്കുന്നത്.

വലതുകൈയില്‍ ദണ്ഡം ധരിച്ചു (ദണ്ഡപാണി) പിന്നെ കൌപീനം മാത്രം ആടയാക്കി പഴനിആണ്ടവന്‍ ആയി ആവണി നമ്മെ അനുഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നു.

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