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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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this is the 4th shelter and

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so the what happened after locking the Brahmma 
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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 
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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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50%?! okay

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- if you came here then [SPEAKER NOISE][SPEAKER 
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- you may see a white ganesh like you saw 
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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 
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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 
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and they will sell snacks and cooldrinks 
there and pilgrims will have that and take 
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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, 
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- from 8 to 5 for today

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so the temple will be open as syncing with 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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how many years you have visited here? - once 
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- It’s my 6th time but haven’t visited the 
temple once

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[BACKGROUND NOISE][SPEAKER NOISE]

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- I climbed somehow, but nobody was there

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during our climb they have started the 'shashti 
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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 
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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 
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and try to plant it in our home, and let's 
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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 
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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 
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that's it, if we take this right we can reach 
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this is the first 5 headed Murugan and you 
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this is also the tallest murugan temple in 
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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 
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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.

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