Siva is the last deity of the Trinity. He is responsible for the dissolution of the universe. He is the embodiment of Tamas, the centrifugal inertia, the tendency towards dispersion and annihilation.

Literally, Siva is one in whom the Universe sleeps after destruction and before the next cycle of creation. All that is born, must die. All that is produced, must disintegrate and be destroyed. This is an inviolable law. The principle that brings about this disintegration, the power behind this destruction, is Siva.

Siva is much more than that. Disintegration of the universe ends in the ultimate thinning out, into a boundless void. This boundless void, the substratum of all existence, from which springs out again and again this apparently limitless universe, is Siva. So though Siva is described as responsible for destruction, he is equally responsible for creation and existence.

In this sense, Brahma and Vishnu are also Siva. It is perhaps this identity that is revealed by some of the stories in the puranas. If one story makes Siva speak from the womb of the infinite pillar of fire to Brahma and Vishnu that they are his own aspects, other stories make Siva as being born from the brows of an angry Visnu or from Brahma who was intensely desiring to beget a son.

Main Prathistha Sree Siva. Upaprathistas Sree Krishna, Aree Ayyappa, Sree Ganaoathy, Sree Vettakkorumakan, Sree Devi, Nagaraja.

How to Reach – This temple is situated at Vandoor. 1 kms from Vandoor towards, Nilambur.