2 Thandayuthapanis of Sri Palanimalai Murugan Temple

Temiang Sri Palanimalai Murugan Temple is a unique temple where there is 2 statues of Thandayuthapani. As i have written before this temple was build by Samyammah in the year 1954. But prior to that the temple was a small wooden shrine and it is there she goes on trance and narrates things that is going to happen to her devotees and well wishes, and the place where she cures illness. And at that time there was only a Vel installed in the shrine. One Chetiar came to Malaysia on a business trip visited the temple as he had some major problems in his business back home in India. He heard about Samyammah's powers to solve various problems through he Arul Vaaku and with her bakthi towards Palanimalai Murugan.



One day he came to the temple and there he met Samyammah. Before he could tell her what he is there for Samyamah called him forward and told him some things which he stood dumbfounded on hearing what she was telling as every word was true. And then she told him to do something back home in India. After the prayers had concluded the Cheatiar wanted to do something for the temple. That's when he told that since this is Palanimalai Murugan Temple with only a Vel installed he will send the proper" Karunggal" Granite statue of Palanimalai Murugan( Thandayuthpaani). After saying this he left for India. The problems the Cheatiar faced all was cleared once he went back to India and his business flourished just as what Samyammah said to him here. He custom made a statue exact replica of the Palani Moolavar which was made out of Navapaashanam by Saint Bhogar in emerald colored black granite. He wrote to Samyammah regarding the statue and he told her that he will ship it to the temple. ( Those days there where no aeroplanes transporting goods between India and Malaya( Malaysia as it was know those days) . The Cheatiar sent the Murugan Statue together with his vehicle the Mayil Vahanam. Samyammah was overjoyed and she fixed a auspicious suitable date for the kumbabhishegam.Suitable date was fixed and when the time came near the statue which was sent form India didn't reach the temple. Samyammah got worried and she didn't want the kumbabishegam to take place without a statue. So with the help of her well wishers another Palanimalai Murugan statue ( smaller one) was brought to the temple and she completed the Kumbabishegam.

After several months of the kumbabishegam the original statue which was made for this temple arrived in a big wooden box well packed in vaikol pul together with his Mayil Vahanam statue. Samyammah with the advice of the Sivaacharyar from India installed the Murugan statue behind the moolastanam. She did this because many people wanted the statue for themselves as it was extremely beautiful with very fine carving and a life like look. She didn't want to offend the Cheatiar if one day he comes to the temple only to find the statue not there, she installed it behind. And the reason she didn't change the Moolavar at that time because kumbabishegam was just performed and the Gurukkal said "It's not nice to wake up a person from his leaf after the food has been served". What he meant was the statue had just seen a kumbabishegam and its not proper to change another statue to replace it's place in the moolastanam. Hence he was installed behind the Moolastanam and he was known as Pin Murugan. ( Murugan which is at the back). That is why our temple has 2 Thandayuthapaani statues.

Sri Palanimalai Murugan ( Putra Kamesthi Swamy )

Many people nowadays don't believe in certain things but there are some miracles which you cant push aside even in this 21st century-time. Our temple's Murugan is know to be Putrakamesthi Moorthy ( the Lord who blesses with child). I may sound ridiculous but with true devotion bakthi you will get what you desire. As i have written earlier this temple was founded by Samyammah. She goes into trance and says things which comes true 100%. Putrakamesthi Child giving Murugan as i call him. Those days Samyammah has pray to this Murugan for children to childless people. Mainly son to son less people. There is a lot of stories associated with child miracle. I ll try to list a few as i feel i need to write this because nowadays i see and hear a lot of married couple crying in the dark as they are childless. Being a Indian is the worst. After few months of marriage the 1st question friends and relations ask is "veethule ethum visheshama" ( Any good news ? ) meaning are u pregnant in layman's term.

In Samyamah's time there was a Cheatiar couple who came from India for a business trip to then Malaya. They were a childless couple. When they came to Seremban the Aachi ( Cheatiar's wife as they are called ) became very ill and needed medical attention. She was then taken to the Hospital and a English doctor ( Velaikaran) examined her. Upon examining her the doctor told the Cheatiar that there is a growth in her stomach and it needs to be removed or it will become septic and dangerously end her life. The Chetiar got very worried and wanted to go on with the operation but the aachi was very scared of operation and hospitals. So they decided to go back to India and continue medication there. They came back to the kittingi and told their friends about the medical problem. At once another Chetiar told the couple about Samyammah and Palanimalai Murugan Temple. The next day the couple came to temple and at that time samyammah was in trance and called them forward. They were quite taken back as thats the first time they are coming and they have been called. Those days didn't have the number calling system as they do now( And they charge a hefty amount to now). The couple then fell on her feet and she immediately told them to return to their homeland. Before the Cheatiar could question her she said it is not a normal growth but a growth which is going to continue your lineage. She added that the growth is a baby boy. The couple was so shocked they couldn't ask anything more as the are too longing for a child, what some-more its a Boy. She told them to name him with murugan's name ( he was named Palaniappan ). The couple returned back to India and as per Samyammah's word a baby boy was born. The baby boy that was born is now about 50+ years old and visited the temple sometime back. Na dhe is the one who narrated this story to me. There are many incidents more which happened those days. A couple who had only daughters came and prayed to Palanimalai Murugan and they was blessed with a boy. They still live in PJ. There are many people who got child after praying to this Murugan.

Even now after i finished my studies a couple from Temiang came to pray. After a long time the lady asked me whether i can do a homam in the house. So i asked what homam they wanted to do. She replied any homam as she wants a child. I immediately told her that im no samiyar who can bless people with child. I told her to take Shasthi Vratham for Palanimalai Murugan and she will surely get a child. Not knowing of her condition. She was told by medical doctors that she cannot conceive a child and was told to adopt. Which the couple has done by adopting a baby girl and that girl was about 11 years old at that time.I stood by my word and told her to do shasthi pooja. She did the pooja so devotion-ally she was blessed with a SON. The couple then brought their son to temple and asked me to name the baby and they insisted it to be Murugan's name. I named him Balamurugan. The family still comes to temple like most of the families who got their TREASURE through Murugan. A Chinese friend of mine was married for 5 years and he didnt have a child. He too prayed during shasthi where he drives from kl on shasthi days. He was blessed with a daughter after doing 4 shasthi poojas.

It is your believe in HIM and devotion which will help you get what you want.

Sri Palanimalai Murugan Temple

Started as a small temple on the hill which was called Rocky Temple. It was called such as the whole hill was full of rocks and there was a Chinese Temple on its peak build in and on natural rocks. Sri Palanimalai Murugan Temple or commonly known as Samyammah Temple was established by Samyammah. Who goes in trance and envisioned a lot of things for her devotees. All her predictions comes true and for the sick people who visits her she gives them viboothi with some herbs and they will get cured even when medical doctors says their sickness can't be cured. She went house to house giving her devottees her blessings and collecting money to build a decent temple for her LORD PALANIMALAI MURUGAN( which in that time was a Vel). With the money she collected and with the help of some devotees she managed to build a small hut for her MURUGAN(vel). All this took place prior to 1954. In 1966 the land which the temple is sitting was gazetted by the State Government of Negeri Sembilan as a Hindu Temple. It was the first temple and i believe the only temple gazetted as a Hindu Temple in Negeri Sembilan as the rest are having titles. In 1966 when the temple was fully build with concrete pillars and slab it was officially opened by His Holiness Swami Chiddanatha Saraswathy. The temple performed all its daily pooja and kumbabishgem as per saivaagama rules. Samyammah past away in 1986 and temple the temple management to her brother and his family as there were no committee to run the day to day affair. 1997 When the brother of Samyammah found it difficult to run the temple due to old age he then gave over the management of the temple to the Negeri Sembilan Hindu Sangam State Council which was headed by Sri Bathumalai. All this while i was a small boy doing everything in the temple form plucking flowers to making garlands, sweeping, washing, doing the nitya poojas etc. Mr. Bathumalai after taking over the management gave me the opportunity to form a management for the committee from the Temiang people. With the Grace of Palanimalai Murugan i invited some trustworthy people whom i have known for some time to be part of the management committee. This people did a very good service by rendering their never ending support to run the temple. I served a the Treasurer of the temple till the day i left to India to study. Before i left i drafted the Temple Registration documents to the Registrar of Societies and submitted. Even when i finished my 5 year studies the registration was not done. I had to go to the Registrar Office in Putrajaya to meet the Pengarah. I fired the pengarah for sitting on my file for 5 years when all the documents were in tact. She assured me in 14 days the temple will be registered and the copy to be sent to Seremban office. As she promised the temple was officially registered under the Registrar of Societies in 10 days. The first AGM was held and since then the Agm reports and accounts are being submitted every year to the department.

Even when the temple was handed over to Hindu Sangam in 1997 temple temple was in bad shape as the temple ceiling was leaking in several places, small landslides and mainly the Moolastanam leaks in every heavy rain. I always dream to build a nice temple for HIM seeing him getting wet in the leak. And when i was small i had the habit a asking Murugan permission ( Poo katthuthal ) to change the Moolavar as the temple had 2 Murugan. Why 2 Murugan? ( i ll tell later) Always the answer was YES. What did i ask? I asked for the back Murugan( he was known as pin Murugan) to be made Moolavar and current Moolavar to be made Aathi Skandar. And not even once he said NO for the change.