Meaning of Lord Subrahmanya By Sri.Sri.Muralidhara Swamiji

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Radhe Krishna To All, There are umpteen names for Lord Karthikeya or Lord Muruga. One of them is "Subrahmanya".In

Sanskrit, "su" denotes anything good natured."Brahmanya" refers to a

person who has had the experience of the Brahman (as in the Vedic verse

– 'namo brahmaNya devAya')Thus 'Subrahmanya' is a representation of a good natured person who has had the experience of Brahman.Further Lord Subrahmanya also has a name 'Saravana Bhava' .What

does 'Saravana' mean? 'Sara' in Sanskrit means dried grass ('dharba'

grass). So 'Sara vana' refers to a forest of dharba grass. Generally

such a forest is very cool.The skin of the snake is very tender and it often looks for a cool place to live.

Hence snakes find home ('bhava') in the 'saravana'.It

is because of the same reason that, in the Subrahmanya kshetra (in the

West Coast of India), the deity is only a 'naga' (snake) carved in

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