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Neelan falls head over heels in love with a damsel named Kumudavalli. He expresses his love to her. Kumudavalli tells Neelan that she intends to marry only that person who is a staunch devotee of Vishnu. Neelan promptly converts and becomes a staunch Vaishnavite. This Neelan is none other than Tirumangai Alwar.

Spiritual transformation isn’t triggered by a celestial voice from the heavens. It isn’t accompanied by thunder or lightning or a shower of petals from the sky. It’s sometimes triggered by ordinary events in the lives of you and me. Even love can make it happen.

Periya Thirumozhi – The Twenty Third Set of Ten

  • Krishna poses with his cow & calf for Ananya

1168. The Lord who playfully crawled between the two mighty Maruda trees, who fought with the wicked Asuras, who tamed a wild horse and who dispelled the anxiety of his cows & calves by holding the mountain like an umbrella, resides in the middle of the flower bushes of Thillai Chitrakoodam.

1169. Hearing that he suckled poison from Putana, the women of the cow-herd clan identify him as the Lord of Sri Devi & Bhu Devi and shower petals on him. This Lord resides in Thillai Chitrakoodam.

1170. The Lord who is referred to as the ‘Butter Thief’ by the women of the cow-herd clan, who is worshiped by all, who crawls in between the Maruda trees & who is venerated by the celestials who chant his thousand names, resides in Thillai Chitrakoodam.

1171. The Lord who is beckoned by the bangle-clad women of the cow-herd clan and who danced on the hood of the Kaliya snake, resides in Thillai Chitrakoodam.

1172. The Lord who resembles a dark rain bearing cloud, who is like an ocean filled with pearls and who is like a mountain flanked by a fast flowing river and who subdued the fierce bulls to win the hand of Nappinnai, resides in Thillai Chitrakoodam.

1173. The Lord who destroyed Lanka, who lifted the mountain to save his cow-herd and who flies across the skies sitting on the back of the gigantic Garuda, resides in Thillai Chitrakoodam.

1174. The Lord who looks like a mighty mountain, who subdued the mad elephant Kuvalaya and who is worshiped both by the lotus-eyed damsels and by the celestials, resides in Thillai Chitrakoodam.

1175. The Lord who assumed the form of a lion with ferocious eyes & sharp claws to tear apart Hiranya and rescue Prahalada, resides in Thillai Chitrakoodam.

1176. The Lord whose body looks like a dark rain bearing cloud and who holds the conch & discus in his hands, resides in Thillai Chitrakoodam along with his consorts – Sri Devi, Bhu Devi and Nappinnai.

1177. Those who read these verses of Tirumangai about the Lord of Thillai Chitrakoodam will forever be spared from the clutches of sin.

Your spiritual transformation is waiting. 🙂