Murugan-The Holy Child

The Story of Skanda fairly bursts with familiar motifs distributed worldwide. His most poignant image is that of the Bambino, the Holy child (and Holy Terror) who is none other than the Sanant Kumara, eternal youth personified. He is born directly from the unkown and unknowable source of all life.

However young and tender, he is the Jnana Pandita who expresses the sacred wisdom of Cumma Iruttal,the divine art of 'simply being', content and happy in the omnipresent busom of his own Mother, from whom he receives his weapon the bright gleaming Vel (lance) that is his Jnana-sakti or power of gnosis.

Skanda or Guha 'the Hidden one', we learn, appears on earth in a variety of guises the defeat Terror personified with the application of his unfailing Jnana-Sakti, the brilliant 'Spear' of wisdom that is fashioned from the represented as having the same color as the rising Sun (Sanskrit: bala-Suriya-Sama Prabha) and he is repeatedly urged to 'come' by those informed enthusiasts (bhaktas) who liken his apparence to the rising of the Sun at dawn.