{"id":85,"date":"2020-05-02T22:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.himalayanacademy.com\/saivite-bible\/?p=85"},"modified":"2020-06-03T04:32:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:32:22","slug":"who-is-lord-murugan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.himalayanacademy.com\/saivite-scriptures\/who-is-lord-murugan\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Lord Murugan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lord K\u0101rttikeya flies through the mind\u2019s vast substance from planet to planet. He could well be called the Emancipator, ever available to the call of those in distress. Lord K\u0101rttikeya, God of will, direct cognition and the purest, child-like divine love, propels us onward on the right\u00adeous way through religion, His Father\u2019s law. Majestically seated on the&nbsp;<samp>ma\u1e47ip\u016bra&nbsp;chak\u00adra,<\/samp>&nbsp;this scarlet-hued God blesses man\u00ad\u00ad\u00adkind and strengthens our will when we lift to the in\u00adner sky through&nbsp;<samp>s\u0101dhana<\/samp>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<samp>yoga<\/samp>. The&nbsp;<samp>yoga&nbsp;p\u0101da&nbsp;<\/samp>be\u00adgins with the worship of Him. The&nbsp;<samp>yo\u00adg\u012b,<\/samp>&nbsp;locked in med\u00aditation, venerates K\u0101rttikeya, Skanda, as his mind be\u00ad\u00adcomes as calm as \u015aarava\u1e47a, the lake of Di\u00advine Essence. The&nbsp;<samp>ku\u1e47\u00ad\u00ad\u1e0dalin\u012b&nbsp;<\/samp>force within everyone is held and controlled by this powerful God, first among renunciates, dear to all&nbsp;<samp>san\u00adny\u0101\u00adsins<\/samp>. Revered as Murugan in the South, He is commander in chief of the great&nbsp;<samp>de\u00advonic&nbsp;<\/samp>ar\u00admy, a fine, dy\u00adnamic soldier of the with\u00adin, a fearless defender of right\u00adeousness. He is Divinity emulated in form. The&nbsp;<samp>Vedas&nbsp;<\/samp>say, \u201cTo such a one who has his stains wiped away, the venerable Sanatkum\u0101ra shows the further shore of darkness. Him they call Skanda.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord K\u0101rttikeya flies through the mind\u2019s vast substance from planet to planet. He could well be called the Emancipator, ever available to the call of those in distress. Lord K\u0101rttikeya, God of will, direct cognition and the purest, child-like divine love, propels us onward on the right\u00adeous way through religion, His Father\u2019s law. Majestically seated on the&nbsp;ma\u1e47ip\u016bra&nbsp;chak\u00adra,&nbsp;this scarlet-hued God blesses man\u00ad\u00ad\u00adkind and strengthens our will when we lift to the in\u00adner sky through&nbsp;s\u0101dhana&nbsp;and&nbsp;yoga. The&nbsp;yoga&nbsp;p\u0101da&nbsp;be\u00adgins with the worship of Him. The&nbsp;yo\u00adg\u012b,&nbsp;locked in med\u00aditation, venerates K\u0101rttikeya, Skanda, as his mind be\u00ad\u00adcomes as calm as \u015aarava\u1e47a, the lake of Di\u00advine Essence. 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