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4. Divine Musical Pillars
The Chettikulam temple is also home to divine musical pillars.
These pillars produce soothing divine musical vibrations when tapped.
But these pillars should not be tapped arbitrarily.
They should be tapped only using twigs from spiritually potent trees like
vilvam, banyan and asvattha trees. If this rule is not observed,
the gandharva beings resident in sookshma (subtle) form in these
pillars will depart and we'll have to shoulder the karma for making them leave.
The musical pillars in this temple are worshipped by gandharva beings.
Those amongst us who want to scale new heights in music,
those who want to make their mark in the world of music,
those who want to be great musicians,
and those who depend on music for their livelihood must visit this temple,
clean these pillars with panneer (fragrant water),
apply sandalwood paste (that they have themselves ground),
turmeric paste and kumkum on the pillars and worship them.
It's ideal if this can be done on panchami thithi and svaathi
nakshatram.
Not For Sale!
Music is a gift from God just like jyotisham is. It is NOT FOR SALE.
Don't try to make money from music.
Since music is a gift from god, it should be offered to God in singing Her name and praising His glories alone.
Perform spiritually oriented music only. Sing devotional songs alone.
Don't sing songs that promote non spiritual feelings; this will result in bad karma.
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An Agasthiar Nugget
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If you play a percussion instrument...
Sri Nandheesvara, the faithful servant of Siva plays the suttha matthalam percussion instrument expertly during the Lord's thaandavam dance.
This foremost of virtuoso percussionists must be saluted by all percussion players, particularly those who play the matthalam and the mrudhangam.
Before every session with their instrument, whether it be practice or performance,
they must offer their respects to Sri Nandheesvara by saying Om Sri Nandheesvaraaya Namaha or Om Salutations to Sri Nandheesvara.
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Atonement
Those musicians who have amassed wealth through non spiritual music must atone for this error
by performing physical work in this temple as a selfless service.
They should also use their wealth
for the restoration, renovation and upkeep of this temple, for other temple projects and
for selfless service to the poor.
This is a Siddha prescription for getting rid of the bad karma arising from the fortune
made through non spiritual music. Imagine the number of minds that wasted time on this music.
Thus the fortune built on wasting other's lives must be atoned for!
And we have herein given the
Siddha prescription for this atonement.
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