Simple Slokas - Murugan

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.

 

Subramanya Gayathri Mantram

ஓம் தத் புருஷாய வித்மஹே

மஹா சேநாயா தீமஹி

தந்நோ ஷண்முகப் ப்ரசோதயாத்

Om Thath purushaya vidh mahe

Maha senaya theemahi

thanno shanmuga prachothayaath