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Those involved in litigations and seeking child boon pray toLord and Mother in the temple.

During the Maha Pralaya floods calamity destroying theworld, Lord Shiva clothed with 64 arts, using a boat of Ohm Moola Mantra wastravelling on the flood waters with Mother Uma.He saw this place-Sirkali unaffected by the floods and alive. He chose this place and stayed with the nameThoni Appar-God with the boat. Mothertook the name Tiru Nilai Nayaki. LordBrahmma worshipped Lord Shiva here in the form of Linga-Brahmma Pureeswarar, asSattinathar destroying pride and arrogance.Lord graces here in three forms as as Brahmma, Vishnu and Shiva. They granted darshan to child saintGnanasambandar. The place is revered asGurumurtham. Lord Sattai Nathar is inthe top tier blessing devotees with Lord Bhairava attributes.

Lord Vishnu had to face adverse dosha for punishing emperorMahabali. To prove that Shiva and Vishnuare not different but one, Shiva wore the skin of Vishnu as a shirt. Mother Mahalakshmi misunderstood this asShiva had destroyed Vishnu and stopped wearing flowers in Her head. As a custom in the temple, women coming tothis shrine avoid wearing flowers in their heads. Men should come to the shrine withoutshirts. As Lord Shiva is the supremehead of all Laws-Sattam in Tamil, He is praised as Satta Nathar. Hence, people involved in litigation seek Hisblessing to win their cases.

Sirkali is the place, where Lord taught spiritual lessons toMother Parvathi during the Maha Pralaya period.This is the 11^th Shakti Peetas where Mother graces asMahalakshmi. Worshipping here relievesthe devotee from pride and arrogance.Sirkali is the only temple where Brahmma-Saraswthi, Shiva-Parvathi andVishnu-Mahalakshmi and the procession deity bless the devotees from the sanctumsanctorum as in Mount Kailash.

Sirkali is also a place of Lord Bhairava importance as inKasi-Varanasi. Lord Bhairava graces in thetemple in His eight forms as Asithanga Bahairava, Guru Bhairava, ChandaBhairava, Krotha Bhairava, Unmatha Bhairava, Samhara Bhairava, PeeshanaBhairava and Akhala Bhairava. The placeis as great as Kasi. Devotees cannotenter the shrine wearing shirts. Specialpujas are performed here on Ashtami days-eighth day of new moon or full moonfortnight.

The Jeeva Samadhi – monument of Sattai Muni Siddha one of the 18 siddhas is in the templewith a peeta-stage above. People canhave the darshan of Lord from this platform. Abhishek is performed here onFridays. Punugu-a cosmetic paste isapplied at 12.00 p.m with garland of Vada-Vadamala. Pulse porridge is offered as nivedhana.

Sage Romasa performed penance in Mount Kailashon Lord Shiva. He prayed to Lord that Heshould grant the Kailash darshan to people of South. Meantime, a contest arose between Vayu andAdisesha about their might. Adiseshacovered the whole Kailash. Vayu couldnot move the mount. At the request ofDevas, Adisesha slightly raised one of his heads to yield in to Vayu. Thus a small part of the mount was brought tothis place by 20 birds. A king Kalavithuby name was sad as he had no child. Hecame to this Chinna Kayilai-Small Kailash, worshipped Lord and got his boonrealized.

This is a three tier hill temple. Lord Brahmma Pureeswarar and Mother TirumalaiNayaki bless the devotees from the base temple.This is praised as Lingamurtham.Six pujas are performed here a day.Lord Brahmma became proud thinking that He was greatest among theMurthis. To teach Him a lesson, Lordmade him forget the Pranava Mantra.Realizing His folly, Brahmma worshipped Lord Shiva here and got hismemory restored. As Brahmma worshippedhere, the place is known as Brahmmapuram and Lord as Brahmma Pureeswarar.

In the middle temple Mother Uma and Lord Maheswarar blessthe devotees. He is also praised asThoni Appar. Four pujas are performed inthis temple. This part of hill is knownas Thoni Malai.

Tirugnana Sambandar one of the Saivite Gurus was born toShivapada Hrudayar and Bagavati Ammai.He is regarded as the incarnation of Lord Muruga. He is praised as Ilaya Pillayar-youngerson. He came to Brahmma Theertham withhis father. The father left the boy onthe bank of the tank and went for a bath.Hungry child began to cry for food.Lord Shiva asked Mother Parvathi to feed the boy. Mother not only fed the little boy with milkbut with wisdom too blended in the milk.Sambandar was happy and sat on the steps of the tank with the milk spotson the face. Shivapad Hrudayar blamedthe boy for accepting the milk from somebody.When the father was about to beat the boy, he showed upwards the divineparents who fed him. ShivapadaHrudayar’s joy knew no bounds to hear the truth. The little child’s first hymn “ThodudayaSevian” was born her3e to enrich the spiritual literature of Tamil. Gana Sambandar had sung 67 pathigams of 10verses each, Tirunavukkarasar 3 pathigams and Sundarar one pathigam on Lord ofSirkali temple.