It
is quite expedient at this stage to know the import of
the Prayer Service; for queer doubts were expressed by
some sane persone as to how could that slender icon stand
those countless abhishekams being performed for over centuries
now. According to one belief the icon is an amalgam of
nine different kinds of medicinal minerals - pashanasblended
together in specific proportions. Hence its amazing strength
to withstand any number. Bur the pundits of Siddha science
refute it on the groud that such ingredients would naturally
evaporate with slight touchof head.
Science
with its advanced techniques may come out with correct
fact, but the ordinary bhakta setting asideall those hair-splitting
arguments, mutterswith folded hands and closed eyes that
Bhagawan Mururga can withstand any stress and strain for
the sake of his adorers, just like his father Maheswar
swallowed the all-burning hakahakam surged up during ksheerasagara
madhana. And feels contented that this abhishekapriya
Muruga accepts with infinite delight his humble offering
and relieves him from the unfordable difficulties, he
is confronted with.
He
prefers offering panchamirtha abhishek to the Lord, presuming
that his abhishek materials are absorbing the medicinal
properties of the image and hence possessing curative
properties. Miraculous cure of many ailments is attributed
to it thus. Moreover, he believes that the sandal paste
used to decorading the image at night and removed in the
morning is infected mysterious cure, if applied to the
body.
The
abhishekam water it is said also cures diseases, like
leucoderma and asthma; if taken in; for, anything - be
it liquid or solid, when comes into cantact with that
sacred image gets charged with the divine power and turns
out a panacea. This credulousness of the believers is
increasing the number of relievers and drawing them to
his sannadhi round the year.
The believed are relieved and the relieved are released
from the vicious circle of birth and deaths as sure as
the water flows from level higher to lower. Thanks to
Maharishi bhoga for persenting to the theist world a timeless,
matchless, peerless vigrah that lasts as long as the sun
rerains his effulgence and the moon his coolness. Most
of the traditions and ritualistic prayer sevices inducted
by him are being carried on even today. Filling the eyes
and souls with divine charm of that recluse Muruga, devotees
come out into the vast courtyard of the first prakara
with vibhuti prasad smeared on the forehead.
