Who is god kartikeya

Many temples in Tamil Nadu are dedicated to him. The Kataragama temple in Sri Lanka is also dedicated to him. Many archaeological pieces of evidence dated around the 1st-century CE and earlier have been found that suggest Lord Kartikeya was a significant deity in early Hinduism. Lord Kartikeya is regarded as one of the most beautiful looking God in the Hindu religion.

He is portrayed as an ever-youthful man with a charm of its own. He possesses a calm and serene character. His face has the radiance of the full moon. He holds his weapon Vel lance in his hand. Mostly, Kartikeya Swami is shown with one head, but some show him with six heads and twelve hands carrying different weapons such as a sword, discus, bow, javelin, mace, etc.

There is a legend surrounding his birth which states that he was nurtured by six mothers symbolizing the six stars of Pleiades Kritikka in Sanskrit. Kartikeya grew up into a philosopher-warrior with extraordinary strength and skills.

He was extremely brave, intelligent, and highly skilled in the art of warfare. He overpowered and killed the demon Tarakasura. Once the Devas were suffering immensely at the hands of the demons Tarakasura and Surapadma, so, they prayed to Lord Shiva and requested him to save them.

Whatever I say, he says the exact opposite of that. So you decide what is best and handle him. Lord Brahma is the Creator of the entire universe. You must learn from him. You have to give me the place of the Guru. Guru means he has to be on a higher position or platform. The teacher has to sit on a higher place and the student has to sit down and listen to him. So then Lord Shiva lifted the young Kartikeya on to His shoulders.

Come up all of the time. Different individuals are making pretty outlandish claims in Malaysia. So this was this organizations effort to look at things in a more traditional way. I did my research on images. And a very interesting one is Murugan is seated on a peacock and he has six faces. But the faces are those of a Japanese man. So we have a Japanese version of Shanmukha. Each face is Japanese and there He is on his peacock looking very Japanese but he's Lord Murugan through the Japanese way of depicting him.

I also checked on Murugan in Shingon Buddhism. Part of the deities of Saivism ended up in Shingon Buddhism. Shingon Buddhism, traditional Shingon Buddhist place does a homa every day. And they write their prayers on wooden sticks and burn them in the homa. Just to show the similarities, they're burning prayers in the homa on a daily basis but they're writing them on sticks instead of writing them on paper. And Skanda's function is very interesting, in Buddhism. Skanda's function is to protect the monastery, the monks and the religious teachings.

That's how he's described, right? So very attuned with how we look, how He's looked at in terms of how Hindu monks look at him, same way. He's protecting the monastery, the monks and religious teachings. So this is an interesting graphic I have, I have the king there with his scepter and then I, I bring in through, it's low fade, the Vel right on top of the scepter. So the scepter turns into the Vel in this keynote slide. So, He's right there behind the governments.

Doesn't care what government it is. He helps government rule in a just way. Of course, the picture itself is of Batu Caves, which is famous for kavadi during Tai Pusam. Kavadi is also quite popular in Mauritius and it's ten days long. So ten days of austerities are performed in Mauritius not just one day.

So very serious time of year for Mauritius Saivites. So, as in any Hindu practice, the practice doesn't work automatically. If you carry kavadi, no matter what you're thinking about, no matter how you do it, it's going to soften karmas and purify the mind.

No it doesn't work that way. Have to do it in the right spirit, in order for it to work. Generally I describe that in terms of the temple. You know, temple has certain benefits.

Simplest way of describing it is chitta-shuddhi. It purifies the mind. The blessings in the temple purify the mind. But if you're in the temple, you know, when you're standing in the back and you're thinking about what you're going to do when you leave, it doesn't purify the mind because you haven't put yourself in the right mood. You have to put your mind into the right attitude for the practice to work.

So similarly, we have to do kavadi at Tai Pusam time with the right frame of mind. The way I suggest it is, ideally we have in mind specific misdeeds that we're apologizing to Lord Murugan for doing.

Kartikeya carries in one hand a spear and his other hand is always blessing devotees. His vehicle is a peacock, a pious bird that grips with its feet a serpent, which symbolizes the ego and desires of people. The peacock represents the destroyer of harmful habits and the conqueror of sensual desires. The symbolism of Kartikeya thus points to the ways and means of reaching perfection in life.

According to a mythological story, Kartikeya once had a duel as to who was the elder of the two. The matter was referred to Lord Shiva for a final decision. Shiva decided that whoever would make a tour of the whole world and come back first to the starting point had the right to be the elder.

On the other hand, Ganesha went around His divine parents and asked for the prize of His victory. Thus Ganesha was acknowledged as the elder of the two brothers. One of two major holidays dedicated to the worship of Lord Kartikeya is Thaipusam.