This
saint was a Vellala by caste. He belonged to Tiru Nidur in the Chola kingdom.
He was a great Bhakta of Lord Siva and His devotees. He was always the hope of
the desperate, the weak and the vanquished. They would call upon him to turn
their defeat into a victory. He would hire himself out as a professional
fighter. He fixed a wage for this service and with that money he would feed the
Siva Bhaktas and look after them. He earned money in this way and hence he was
called “Munaiyaduvar’. Lord Siva was highly pleased with him and blessed him.
Two
vital lessons that this Nayanar’s life hold should not be ignored. The first
and foremost, even in the exercise of the God-given talent of fencing, the
Nayanar took care to see, that it was used to defend the weak, the oppressed
and the downtrodden. Strength, too, is a manifestation of the Lord, according
to Him but it should be used in His service in a righteous way. The second one
is that the fruits of such service were always dedicated to the Lord. This is
the very core of the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, and the teachings of all
saints and sages. Righteousness rests on this pedestal of dedication to God and
unselfishness. Selfishness is the root cause of all sins and consequent
miseries.
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