In a Hanuman temple at
Kanjappalli in Coimbatore district near Annur an incident worthy of attention
happened on Hanuman Jayanthi. This is 300 years old Veera Anjeneya temple.
First of all, this month Margazhi
is considered to be a very auspicious month for Hindu religious Worship. This
month of Margazhi is additionally blessed since Hanumath Jayanthi falls in this
month (It was on 28th Dec). He is an avid devotee of Lord Rama and is said to
be the incarnation of Lord Shiva. Hanuman, the son of Anjana and Kesari blessed
with distinctive powers. Therefore, he is significant in the Hindu epic
Ramayana. Hanuman is the bravest, strongest and intelligent of all. Here in
India, kids are usually inspired by Hanuman as their parents or grandparents
tell them these stories.
Hanuman was also praised as “Sollin Selvar’ in Tamil, for his
quick-witted speech.
Some of his other names include, Anjeneya,
Kesari Nandan, Anjanai Mainthan, and Vyuputra.
Even though he was so dearest and
deepest to Lord Rama, he denied accompanying Rama to Vaikumdam (the Place of not Hindrance). He
insisted on wanting to always hear Rama’s mantra chant. It is said that whenever someone talks about
Ramayana or chant on Rama (Sri Ram),
Hanuman dwells there.
Now coming back to the occurrence
at Kanjappalli. On 28-12-2016, as the pooja celebrations were going on to Lord Hanuman,
a peacock flew into the gathering. And, it was watching the complete abishekam going on to Lord Hanuman with milk,
yogurt, tender coconut, turmeric and sandalwood. The complete scene was as
though the peacock had come all the way to watch the abishekam and get Hanuman’s
blessings. This phenomenon exhilarated the entire crowd who gathered for
Hanuman’s darshan at the temple.
Now, we all are unsure about a
peacock visit at the Hanuman temple on his birthday:
I would like to connect this to a
small tale in Ramayana. Peacock feather was first used by Lord Sri Ram during
his visit to Janakpur which was the capital of Ancient Mithila. Once, Lord
Sri Ram with Lakshman went to the Janakpur garden to collect some flowers and
offer them to their Guru Vishwamitra Muni.
The gardener was so astonished to see such charming and elegance of Lord Rama
that he immediately offered peacock feathers fastened together as a bunch to
the lord’s Crown. Maa Sita happened to see Lord Rama in her Garden with
the bunch of peacock feathers on his crown. Sita was infatuated to watch Rama
with the peacock feathers and after their wedding Sita said Rama that she
wanted to see him always with peacock feathers in his crown. Lord Rama said Sita
that it is not correct to always pluck peacock feathers which made Sita
unhappy. To comfort Sita, Lord Rama has given word to Sita that he would always
be with peacock feathers on his head from his next Avatar as Lord Sri Krishna.
I hope you now understand the
connection of this tale to our above incident.
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