Simple Slokas - Murugan
Tamil (from Kandar Anuboothi):
உருவாய் அருவாய், உளதாய் இலதாய்
மருவாய் மலராய், மணியாய் ஒளியாய்க்
கருவாய் உயிராய்க், கதியாய் விதியாய்க்
குருவாய் வருவாய், அருள்வாய் குகனே.
English:
Uruvai aruvai, ulathai elathai
maruvai malaraai, maniyai oliyaai
karuvai uyirai, kathiyai vithiyai
guruvai varuvai, arulvai guhane.
Meaning:
O! Lord Guha (Muruga)! who has the form; who has no form;
you are both being and non being;
you are the flower and the fragrance of the flower;
you are the gem and its light;
you are the embryo; and the life (body and soul);
you are the fate and also the destiny;
you as a guru Guha come and bestow your blessings;
Notes (translated from a descriptive tamil text):
O! Lord Muruga! who show his form with six face, twelve shoulders;
who is without form - without name, character or symbol;
being for those who trust; not being for those who deny;
as a flower; as a fragrance from that flower;
like a diamond (precious gem);
like the light that diamond emits (a gem won’t emit light in darkness; here lord muruga is the light and the gem - both in one);
Being an embryo for the living creatures; being life (soul) in all those creatures;
the one who drives their fate (deeds) and who guides them to mukthi;
Come as a guru and bestow your blessings upon me.
Murugan is considered a guru with the story of teaching his father the meaning of Pranava matra.
- some online sources discern the post with meanings derived from the words as-is: example - varuvai has two meanings - come as well as income. Here arunagiri is not asking for wealth (material) rather than ask for his blessings.
- karuvai uyirai kathiyai vithiyai: the embryo and the life; once born the deeds and the fate; and he is the one to give us mukthi;
- Here Arunagiri considers Lord Muruga as his Guru (Arunagirinathar’s life story) and ask him for his blessings as a guru. In tamil, many texts refers to Guru coming before father, mother and God.
- Lord Murugan has thousands of names; his favorite ones are Murugan, Kumaran and Guhan (Krupandana Variyar discourse: Murugan perumai - Arunagirinathar:
Kandar Anuboothi); hence apt to call him Guhan in this verse.
