Pamban Swamigal


Pamban Swamigal was born on Pamban near Rameswaram for Mr. Sattappa Pillai and Mrs. Sengamala ammai in the year 1850. The name given to him by his parents was Appavu.

Basically Appavu was a quick learner and one day he went to Naganathar Temple he saw a Sivanadiyar continuously chanting “Siva-Siva”. On seeing it he exclaimed and he also began to chant the same from that time continuously for three days. After 3 days he got an intention to read Murugan Bakthi books. At that time a devotee told him that Lord Muruga and Lord Siva are same and Appavu believed it strongly.

At that time he got the Kandar Sasti Kavacham (by Devaraya Swamigal) book and he started the parayana of Kandar Sasti Kavacham. He studied it in the given manner like he read it 36 times a day (oru naal muppataruru kondu…).

One day when he was at his coconut garden he started to write stotras on Muruga as a fruit of the parayana of Sasti Kavacham starting with the sentence “Gangayai sadayil Parithu…”. It is believed that it is because of the Parayana Palan of Sasti Kavacham that he wrote Sanmuga Kavacham which gives a lot of boons for its followers and which is also believed to be as a form of mantra. From that day every day before taking food he wrote a stotra on Muruga. One day, on seeing his stotra a devotee called Sethu Madavaiyar got very happy and he brought Appavu to Rameswaram on a Vijaya dasami day of the Tamil month of Puratasi and asked him to take bath at “Agni Teertham”. Now he gave him the deeksha of “Arezhuthu Mandiram” (also called as Shadakshara Mandiram) and he told him that he should not chant any other mantra other than the “Arezhuthu Mandiram”. And he asked him to learn Sanskrit
also. And on one day Lord Muruga came in the dream of Appavu and gave him Milk rice. From that time he got the tendency to Sing Tamil poems and to Research on poems. And he got the names of Pamban Swamigal, Kumara Guru Dasar and Kumara Swami.

And at the age of 28 he married Kali Mutammal and she gave birth to Murugaiyyan, Siva Gnanambal and Kumara Guru Dasar. At the times when the children went unhealthy he cured it by simply giving the “Thiru Neeru” of Lord Muruga.

Pamban Swamigal has written a lot of Stotras on Muruga. Some of them are
1. Sanmuga Kavacham
2. Paripurna Panchamirdam
3. Mudalvan Purana Mudippu
4. Pagai Kadidal
5. Kumarastavam
Finally he got “Thuravu” in the year around 1902 and visited many temples in the north and south and on 30-May-1929 at 7:15AM at the presence of Muryugan adiyars he got Mukthi at Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai. (That was a day of Vaikasi with Sasti and Avitta Nakshatra)

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