As a Murugan devotee, this trend genuinely worries me
I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but as a Murugan devotee, I'm honestly very happy to see more and more people developing devotion towards Murugan. Seeing temples crowded and people chanting His name genuinely makes me happy.
But at the same time, I'm starting to feel uncomfortable with something. Recently, I've been seeing people trying to separate Hindu gods based on language or region—like saying Murugan is only a Tamil god, Vishnu is a North Indian or Hindi god, or claiming one deity belongs to one community and another belongs to someone else.
As a Tamil myself, I don't understand this. Tamil literature has some of the greatest devotional works for Lord Vishnu too, like the Nalayira Divya Prabandham. At the same time, saints like Arunagirinathar gave us incredible works praising Murugan. Our tradition has always respected all deities.
Now I'm even seeing debates claiming Tirupati was originally a Murugan temple or people getting angry over movie dialogues because they mention Murugan in a certain way. Whether something is historically true or not should be discussed with evidence, not with the intention of creating divisions.
When I read Arunagirinathar's Tiruppugazh, written centuries ago, he describes Murugan's birth from Lord Shiva's divine fire and His appearance in Saravana Poigai. These stories have existed for hundreds of years. Why are we suddenly trying to rewrite everything through the lens of language and regional identity?
I just feel that some people are turning devotion into politics and language pride, and that's not good for Hinduism. Murugan isn't just for Tamils. Vishnu isn't just for North Indians. Shiva isn't just for one region. They belong to every devotee.
That's just how I feel. Devotion should bring us together, not create new divisions within the same faith.