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We'll see about the tallest hill that has a Murugan temple
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this is the only 5 faced Murugan's temple in the world
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it's located near Coimbatore and the name is Othimalai
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hello guys greetings ! and welcome back to my channel
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in this video we're currently in Othimalai
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it's very close to Coimbatore and famous for it's Murugan's temple, we're currently here
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at foothill to be exact, we are standing near to a ganesh temple and
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we'll climb via this way
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important facts, history of the temple along with
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the reason why Murugan is there will be covered in this video
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this is the foothill of the temple and we have our [SPEAKER NOISE] brother with us
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you may saw him in most of our temple Vlogs
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this is my sibling, we need to cover 1800 steps to climb
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after that we will see the special Murugan
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unlike ordinary ones, we'll discuss about the specialty along the way
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so as you saw the Ganesh temple in the starting
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so this hill was formed after a incident between Murugan and Ganesh. I'll tell that
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we can see another small ganesh here after crossing that
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and we can see many small shelters to provide shadows
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even if it's sunny, we can take rest on this shelters
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then we can slowly climb and they say it has 1800 steps
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Ayyar Malai which we climbed before had similar step count of 1500
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so it will take 1-1.5 hours maximum regardless of your speed
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we'll slowly reach the top by using these steps only
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this will be little hard for me because
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I was recovered from illness recently and I still have symptoms of cold
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I'll worship lord muruga after climbing,
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many locals will climb and [SPEAKER NOISE] and outsiders are unaware of this
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so you must also visit this place if you ever travel near to Coimbatore
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so after climbing, I'm sitting on the second shelter
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I can see the first shelter and this one is the second
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I guess we traveled 25% and I feel slightly relieved from cold
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so from now, we'll rush to the top
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this is the Temple which is in the highest altitude among all Murugan temples in TN
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This temple is higher than the famous Pazhani temple
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as I mentioned this temple has lot of history
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and a big story, usually normal Muruga will
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have one head and one sphere and this Muruga is having 5 heads and 8 hands
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we'll learn about the reason
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while seeing from the second shelter
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the road view was looked nice
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Brother will tell a small story about how this hill got the name Othimalai
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come on tell - does Vijay and Rajini are the only persons to tell small stories?
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okay now tell why it got the name Othimalai?
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- now the Muruga is huge and one person that beat the Muruga is his elder brother only Sai
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- now there is a character called Brahmma as you know, he went to Kailasa
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- to visit Shiva and Parvathi and Ganesh was sitting at the entrance
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- he saw and greeted him then crossed
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- then he saw his younger brother, he was supposed to talk with him but
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- he went ahead after ignoring him
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- then Muruga confronted him with ego, then he said why he was supposed to talk to him
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- then meanwhile Muruga asked explanation for the Pranav manthra
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- we're not sure whether Brahmma has the knowledge of that, but he confused Muruga
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- he lost his temper and locked Brahmma in a metal cage
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so that's why this place is called as "irumbarai"
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- I guess it changed into Irumborai due to people’s pronunciation
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- What's the job of the Brahmma, He is the incharge of production
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- so Murugan captured him and then he took over the production department
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so Brahmma is...- Hi, Hello!
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tell goodbye! - Hi greetings!
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why you’re not climbing? - she climbed while going to uphill
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now she is tired ! as you can see the child
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she walked during climbing up and now for return she requested her grandpa to carry her
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this is the 4th shelter and
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so the what happened after locking the Brahmma in metal cage
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so his job is to create living creatures
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so Muruga took over the job after locking him, - yeah he took over for himself
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- so basically Brahmma had 4 faces and
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- adding one face of Muruga will come to 5 faces which you can see in the temple
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we're observing these kind of shelters in our last 4-5 trips
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it's good for people, and each shelter is sponsored by individuals
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they also have trash bins so
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you can avoid littering this place
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it's a very good thing and
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previous hills had small water tanks for small animals and birds which is missing here
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but I'm not sure if this place has any monkeys
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does this place have? - yeah!
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he is saying that they have monkeys here but I'm yet to see one unlike birds which I can constantly see
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this path is going that way and this is superb
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this will be a new experience among my hikings
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"divine music"
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it's a new experience as I witnessed lot of women climbing this hill
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"divine music"
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this Othimalai is the tallest hill based Murugan's temple in Tamil Nadu
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it's 3000 ft above the sea level with 1800 steps
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we're climbing continuously with a calm and steady pace
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we had seen all Murugan temples in TN like Pazhani, Thiruchendur
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but this Murgan only has 5 heads
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with 8 hands, if you calculate it for 5 heads it supposed to be 10 hands
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but this Murugan has 8 hands only
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I'll tell the story behind that once after I reached the top
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This hill was created in a way that explained by our brother
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as Brahmma was held in prison, Muruga took his job and created all good creatures only
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and if everyone are good then it will be not balanced, so due to that issues
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many stories about this hill came and if you read Thiruvilayadal
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you can find stories about this hill in that
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I guess we have reached half way mark and if we travelled a bit more
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we'll see the Muruga and can worship him
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it's very easy to climb this hill and I was skeptical about this when I had this cold
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but it's very easy, as you can see elders, small children
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are able to easily climb this.
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this temple acts as a ancestral temple for the towns surrounding this hill
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outsiders are unaware of this temple, There are many fasts like 'Kantha shashti Viradham' dedicated to Muruga
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during that time worshipping in this temple will give more blessings
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I can see a unique board here
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it says please keep the cement and sand bag here. But I can’t find anything here
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then I remember I saw it in a reference video where they said
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during the construction work of this shelter
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they usually hire workers to fetch cement and sand bags from ground
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but to have the pilgrims contributions
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we'll have to bring a small bag of sand or cement while climbing
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so they will place everything here
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but nothing here now, they may used that
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this contribution is good and during next time
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we may proudly say that I/my family lifted sand for this temple's construction work
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we can brag about that
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did we finished 75%? - we done 50% sai!
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- if you came here then [SPEAKER NOISE][SPEAKER NOISE]
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- you may see a white ganesh like you saw in Velliangiri
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- and if you take left from there
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there is one temple and we need to take the left from there
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then we can reach the murugan's temple
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we can't easily see the white ganesh that easily in any temple
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I saw it in the Velliangiri hills, but here
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they decorated beautifully, so if you reached this white ganesh temple then
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it means you're close to the main temple
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as brother said you may saw this kind of white ganesh in my Velliangiri video
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so in that video, there was a temple for white ganesh
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and they will sell snacks and cooldrinks there and pilgrims will have that and take a short break
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our bad luck this temple is locked
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so there are some timings and keep that in mind while planning
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it'll be open only for 3 days in a week, they also have timings, is it from 8 am?
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- from 8 to 5 for today
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so the temple will be open as syncing with our time
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while you're coming here refer with friends around here or
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you can ask in my comment section so I can help you
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"divine music"
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and this shelter has "suyambu Lingeshwarar" formed in stone
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and there are wordings in the wall which says "Muruga Ohm Muruga!"
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and we have shiva here and many people are worshipping this idol before continuing their journey
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it was only a stone...-[BACKGROUND NOISE]
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so this top ceiling and structure was built by individuals
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they share their contributions and it's mentioned over here
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you can find it in this stone tablet
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every shelters are built by philanthropists
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it's a good thing and I can hear pooja noise from here, not sure if it's a recording
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and the sunset will be superb to witness from the top
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how many years you have visited here? - once in every year
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- It’s my 6th time but haven’t visited the temple once
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- I climbed somehow, but nobody was there
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during our climb they have started the 'shashti pooja'
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one guy was carrying one big sack, we asked him about that and he said it's full of coconuts
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Coconuts bro? -yes brother
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have you noticed this yellow colour flower and it caught my attention many times
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my father usually ask me to pluck this flowers during our home pooja and it's called as arali
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we call it as 'pillayar flower' as we offer it to ganesh mostly
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these plants were disappeared in households so we'll take some seeds
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and try to plant it in our home, and let's see if it grows
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finally we have reached the top of the temple
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and it may look small in drone view, but it's much larger in person
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and that's the temple, pooja is going in full fledged mode
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the god man here
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opened this temple for past one week on the occasion of shashti fasting period
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and the fellow pilgrim said this, as i said it will be opened for 3 days
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it's actually 2 days according to him, and I never saw any monkey so far
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but now I can see one monkey here
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monkey population is small compared to previous trips and poor soul has no food I guess
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we will offer some bananas while returning if we can
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that's it, if we take this right we can reach the temple
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this is the first 5 headed Murugan and you can see it only here
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this is also the tallest murugan temple in Tamil Nadu
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as shashti pooja was going on
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the pandit requested us to not take any videos
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but still I showcased this temple for you a bit
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as he captured and took over the creation job from Brahma, Murgan got 5 heads
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as he created all creatures as good souls
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the balance of the earth was collapsed in birth and death ratio
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and Bhoomi matha took this issue to Shiva
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and after hearing this hew went to see Muruga
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and Muruga told about the Pranava manthra to shiva
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as he told(othi) that here to shiva this hill got the name Othimalai
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this hill has shrines for Boghar, Agasthiyar, Thirugnanasamandhar, Raja rajeshwari
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they told us to not take video
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but the Lord Muruga was presented beautifully with whole holy ash makeover
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and I'm not sure if I can witness another Muruga who is such beautiful as this one
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and do comment if you had experience in this othimalai
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and I'll meet you guys in another beautiful journey like this one
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till then, stay tune guys
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sailendhian signing off for follow jack.
