Kirupanandha Variyar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Shaivite spiritual teacher
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Place of Birth: Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
About Kirupanandha Variyar
- Kirupanandha Variyar was a Shaivite spiritual teacher from India.
- He was an ardent Murugan devotee who helped rebuild and complete the works on many of the temples across the state.
- He is well renowned for his discourses on various shaivite legends. Coming into prominence at the time when atheist movement was running hot in the state of Tamil Nadu, he did great service to sustain and re-establish hinduism and theism in the state.
- He has also scripted a movie, Siva Kavi.
- He used all possible mediums to spread the Hinduism not restricting himself considering one as inferior and another as superior.
- In his famous Detroit discourse on Muruga's kindness, he proposed that women's name should also be added as an initial to the child's name.
- He is considered the bullwark of Kaumara and synonymous with the worship of Lord Murugan.He always insisted on discipline being as important to devotion saying one without the other would be fruitless.
- He is considered to be 64th nayanmar by the people of the state.
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