KANDA KARNAN (Bells on earlobes)
When it comes to Religion, one should not behave like a 'kanda karnan'. An individual was praying Lord Siva with full devotion. But the same time he also talked ill of all other Gods. One day, Lord Siva appeared before him during the prayers and told until you stop talking ill of other Gods, he cannot get his blessings. Even his Lord Siva telling him also did not change him. He only prayed lord Siva and continued talking ill of other Gods. The fervour with which he prayed Lord Siva, made the Lord to appear before him again. But Lord Siva appeared as Hariharan a half siva and half vishnu form. This only made him to be partially happy, as he was not happy of the half of vishnu in Hariharan. He offered nivethya only to the Siva half and when he lit the incense sticks, he pressed the nose on the vishun side, so that he should not have the fragrance of the incense stick. Lord siva on seeing that told - "why are you so mad and rigid on your views, only to change you I took the form of Hariharan and all devas and devis are the same manifestation of the God. I wanted you to understand that and took the form of hariharn. You have failed to understand that. For this mistake, what you have done today, you would suffer for a long time." The Lord disappeared after that.
The devotee left for another village and started living there. In fact, day by day, his aversion to Vishnu only grew further. The people in the village also understood that he was a Vishnu dweshi. The youngsters in the village knowing that, on seeing him, started chanting loudly vishnu's nama and troubled him. To overcome this, he started to hang two bells in his ear lobes (karna) and whenever youngsters chanted Vishnu namas, he would ring the bells so as not hear them. Because of this, he was called in the village by the name 'Kanda karnan', a person having bells in the ears.
