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Sunday, October 3, 2021

Rajagopala Swamy Temple, Komal – Legends

Rajagopala Swamy Temple, Komal – Legends

Brahma Mohanam:

As per legend, Lord Brahma was jealous of noticing the closeness of Lord Krishna to the cowherd boys in Brindavan. He could not able to digest the friendship between the cowherd and Lord Shiva. So, Lord Brahma stole all the cows and the boys and kept them in Brahma Loka. Knowing the act of Lord Brahma, Lord Krishna decided to teach him a lesson. He took the form of cows, calves and the boys that were hidden by Lord Brahma in Brahma Loka. On the seeing the power of creation of Lord Krishna, Brahma realized his mistake and begged forgiveness at the feet of Lord Krishna.

He also restored all the cows, calves and the boys that he had hidden in the Brahma Loka. Brindavan is now overpopulated with the cows as the Brahma restored the original cows in addition to the cows created by Lord Krishna. To avoid the over population, it is said that Lord Krishna transported the Gokula cows and the Gopala cows to the southern and northern halves of Komal and tended to them in this village.

Lakshmi, Saraswathy & Parvathi took human forms here:

As per legend, when goddess Lakshmi, Saraswathy and Parvathy took human forms in Komal to personally experience the lives of the normal human beings. It is said that they took this form to show us that one can overcome the Karma e by suffering through problems.

Krishna took the form of Gopala to assist Parasakthi:

As per legend, Mother Parvathy took the form of cow in Komal to have darshan of Lord Shiva in Jyoti form. Mother Parvathy was accompanied by Lord Vishnu in the form of cowherd in her quest.