Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Marga bandhu stotram

Sri Appayya Deekshitaar was a great Siva Bhakta.
Siva karnaamRtam and such other wonderful works were delivered by him. His erudition, bhakti and bonding with Siva is incomparable. It is seen through in his writings.

He is closely associated with "Marga Bandhu Siva," whose temple is situated in Virinchipuram (now in Tamilnadu) where he lived.

Margabandhu Stotram is a stotram written on Siva (with specific reference to the Lord in this temple.) It is a spiritually very significant stotram. It helps the devoted in having a safe, purposeful and successful "journey," which could mean from simple mundane travel from A to B, to the spiritual journey of every soul to reach and identify with paramaatma.

I will post the text of this stotram in a subsequent post.