Story of Great Devotee Kannapan

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Krishna,Dear devotees of Lord Hari,Kannapan, a tribal hunter who

worshipped a Shiva lingam in a forest temple. Kannapan had no knowledge

about the do's and don'ts associated with temple worship. Each night,

he would come to the temple and bath the Shiva lingam with water that

he'd carried in his mouth, offer it flowers he'd already used to

decorate his own air and then offer it some roasted meat. Each morning,

the Brahmin priest who tended to the temple would awake to find the

evidence of Kannapan's puja scattered around the lingam and would

become upset. He prayed to Lord Shiva and asked him to reveal to him

the person that was polluting the temple. Lord Shiva told the priest

that it was his closest devotee, Kannapan. The priest was upset. "I

thought I was your closest devotee," he said to the Lord. "Why do you

do you consider him so highly?" The Lord told the priest to come in the

night and that he would reveal the reason to him.

That

night, the priest did as Lord Shiva had instructed. Soon enough, he saw

Kannapan approach the temple grounds. When Kannapan saw the traditional

offering of bilva1 leaves at the foot of the Shiva

Lingam, he was obviously upset. "Who left these dirty leaves her?" he

asked out loud. Kannapan then quickly brushed them away and pulled

flowers from his matted locks and offered them to the Lord. Next he

bathed the lingam with water from his mouth and offered it a roasted

animal.

Then something astonishing

happened. One of the eyes drawn on the Shiva Lingam began to bleed.

Seeing this, Kannapan immediately took some herbs from his sack and

pressed them against the eye in an attempt to stop the bleeding. But it

did not work. What Kannapan did next, the priest could not believe. He

removed an arrow from his quiver, poked out his own eye and pressed it

to the eye drawn on the Shiva lingam. Instantly, Lord Shiva's eye

stopped bleeding. Kannapan dance with delight. But then the second eye

of the Lord began bleeding. Kannapan was about to poke out his second

eye, when he realized that if he did so he would be blind and therefore

be unable to see where to put the eye. So he placed his big toe on the

lingam's eye so that he would know where to place his eye after he

plucked it out. Just before Kannapan was about to pluck out his second

eye, Lord Shiva appeared before him, stopped him and blessed him. Shiva

said to the priest, "All the people come here begging for sight, but

only Kannapan came to give me sight."

 

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