Kanadi Sree VlShnumaya Chathan Swami Temple
Kanadi Kavu is the most holy and ancient Vishnu Maya Temple in the
state of Kerala providing relief to sorrows and showering blessings
and prosperity to all the devotees irrespective of caste, creed or
religion. This temple having many epics and with rare his torical
importance is situated 20 kilometers south-west of Trichur in Peringottukkara.
Sri K. K. Vishnubharatheeya Swamy who is the Spiritual Guru and the
Madathipathi of Kanadi Kavu, grew up with the traditional values inherited
and imbibed into him by the great hermit Sri Konnachariyan. The all
merciful and sympathetic Swamiji observes the temple rites strictly,
and leads his life as a ritualist.
The important epic goes like this. A son was born to Shakatha Maharishi
named Vishwakethu who had a very wild character. Ped up with his notorious
attitude, the father drove his son away from his Ashram. One day when
he was sleeping under a tree in a thick forest Keyoori, the daughter
of Vigalasuran, kept his feet on her lap and was pampering and they
started to live in the forest. Hearing this news, Vigalasuran ordered
that the man should be brought in front of I him but the soldiers
could not trace him and instead they caught Keyoori, and then Vigalasuran
put her in jail. According to the warning given by Sukrachariyan,
that Keyoori is carrying a baby in her
abdomen, and that baby is the destroyer of Asurra vamsham, Vigalasuran
abandoned her in the forest. Keyoori who was wandering in the forest
got very tired and feeble, approached an Ashram for water. The Ashram
belonged to Shakatha Maharishi and the sage who has spiritual insight
about things to happen, immediately recognized who the baby is, that
is growing in the womb of Keyoori. He then conducted a Homam in order
to eradicate Keyoori from this earth and he created a demon. This
demon dashed towards Keyoori to swallow her, but declined back, seeing
the uniqueness of the infant in her abdomen. Instead the demon created
a beetle and sent it into her womb. Immediately she experienced pain
and delivered a boy baby. Upon this incident, immediately the demon
swallowed Keyoori and also murdered Vishwakethu. The baby was found
holding a smashed fierce beetle in his hands by a hunter in the jungle
and he took the baby to his hut and named him Bhrigan. The lone spirits
of Vishwakethu and Keyoori wandered in the jungle and everyday they
used to visit the hut of the hunter to see and fondle their baby.
Later when the baby grew up to be a boy, he decided to take revenge
on those who have killed his parents. As per the instructions from
his parents he went to Brahmagiri to do penance to please Brahma.
Lord Brahma appeared before him, and he prayed to bless him with a
wish, that if he has death, it should be by a seven year old boy who
is born out of the sperm of Lord Shiva and who has grown up by having
the breast milk of a virgin of Chandala caste and he should have life
on both sides of his chest. Obliging to the prayers of Bhrigan, Lord
Brahma granted his wishes and also presented him with ten divine arrows
and Brahma disappeared. Bhrigan killed all those who murdered his
parents. Shakatha Maharishi fled with fear and hid in a cave. There
he observed severe penance and pleased Lord Vishnu who appeared before
him and promised that he will fmd a solution to the problem. He then
called a meeting of the Deva Sabha, there Naradhamaharishi stood up
and announced that a yakshi named Manaswani due to the curse of Parvathi
devi is living in Kulikunnan forests as the daughter of Malayaraja
and since time has come for the murder of Bhrigassura and for the
release of the curse on Manaswani Lord Shiva and Parvathi Devi should
immediately reach Kulikunnan forests. Lord Shiva taking the form of
a jungle hunter and Parvathi as Kulivaga rushed to earth. After reaching
earth, Lord Shiva went to the shore of a stream to have bath, there
he saw a beautiful woman having bath and got aroused. The lord immediately
informed the woman about his feelings but hearing this, the woman
got scared and prayed to Parvathi Devi. Immediately the woman felt
that some sort of a power had imbibed into her body and as a dream
she felt that she is having sexual intercourse with a jungle tribe.
The sperm of the Jungle tribe fell on a wild root (a kind of yam grown
in the forest) on earth. The woman {elt all these as a ~eam but she
could not see neither the jungle tribe nor anybody in the vicinity.
After this incident, the woman grew anxious to fondle a baby and she
felt that on the shore of the stream there is a wild root having life,
and she also felt that it was calling out to her "mother..mother..".
And that night, she walked to the shore of the stream and was surprised
to see another woman typically looking like her. She saw the wild
root which she wished in that woman's hands. She then meditated Sree
Parameshwaran, and then lifted her hands forward to get the wild root,
suddenly the other woman transformed herself to Parvathi and the root
she was holding became a very handsome baby. This is how Sree Chathan
Swamy took his form on earth. Parvathi Devi gave the baby to the woman
telling her that this baby has nothing impossible to do and the baby
should be breast fed and brought up. Thereafter blessing both .of
them Parvathi Devi vanished from the scene. The baby grew big and
smart by drinking the breast milk of the virgin
. women. The boy attacked and brought into his control a bison which
was troubling everybody and was destroying everything in the forest.
He used the bison as his vehicle and was roaming in the jungle enjoying
the beauty of the forest and while he was roaming, Naradamuni appeared
before him and reminded him of his intentions on earth, such as eradication
of Bhrigassuran and establishing peace on earth, saying this, Naradamuni
disappeared. Chathan later went to Kailas to visit his father in the
form of Vishnu and there Lord Shiva said that he will be known as
Vishnu Maya and gave advice regarding various mantbras. Parvathi Devi
also trained him with various techniques and with these techniques
he
murdered Bhrigasuran who was trying to own his step-mother Kulivaga.
After the murder of BhrigaSuran, Parvathi and Kulivaga blessed Chathan
Swamy in abundance. They said that a devotee will come to the forest
and Chathan Swamy should go along with him to the country and should
reign there as their leader and protector and both the powers together
took fist full of rice, blessed it and gave it to 390 Kutti chathans
and sent them along with Chathan Swamy. As long as Chathan Swamy reigns
in this world, he should be protecting his devotees as well as eradicate
all evil spirits and to be present in abundance all the time along
with Shiva and Parvathi at Kanadi Kuttichathan Kavu Kanadi Kavu is
considered and known as a refuge centre for the poor and also as a
cultural centre. Every Tuesday at 11 PM in the night Guruthi is offered
to all the Kutti Chathans. The main celebrations at Kaanadi Kavu is
Roopakalam and Thiravellattu. All mysterious problems and complications
faced by human beings will be easily handled by Kutti Chathan Swamy,
thus making Kaanadi Kutti Chathan Kavu a refuge centre for the hopeless.
Kanadi Sree Vishnu Maya Chathan Swami Temple, P. O. Kizhakkumuri,
Peringottukkara, Thrissur, Ph : 0487 2272277, 2271444, 3093570, Fax:
0487 2271444
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