If I had shared the various moments of excitement and joy that arose in the company of my gurus in physical form in the last post, we had an equally elevating experience in the midst of Agathiyar in our home. The greatest moment of excitement after embarking on the spiritual path was in having received Agathiyar in the form of a statue at our home. If he had come easy delivered to my doorstep or if I had purchased him off the shelf, we would not have seen such excitement. It was the manner it all came together and fell into place that brings back the excitement even as we go back recalling his arrival till this day.
Initially, Agathiyar wanted to grace the Jegathguru Sri Raghavendra Mritiga Brindavanam Kinta that was being built in Ipoh. He had asked to stop over at my home while waiting for the completion of the Brindavanam. But he chose to stay for good having another devotee contribute another bronze statue of him to the Brindavanam. This task was assigned to me in my Nadi reading. As Agathiyar had given the guidelines to commission his statue in Swamimalai, Varadaraj of the Bronze Creative traveled to Agasthiyampalli to see and take photos of Agathiyar.
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| Agathiyar in bronze in the foreground and his image at Agasthiyampalli in the background |
Prior to his arrival, we were having his painting, in fact, several variations and a photo image of his statue at Agasthiyampalli. His bronze statue was made in the image of him at Agasthiyampalli.
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| The very first picture of Agathiyar I received that I began to worship to |
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| Another picture that came my way that I worshiped |
The following day after his arrival we had family and friends gathered to usher him and celebrate his Jayanthi that fell on Sunday 3 January 2010.
Then as family and friends wanted him over to their houses too, we arranged for puja in their homes too.
After visiting my nephew's home on Saturday 16 January 2010 Agathiyar stepped into his home again on Saturday 10 April 2010, this time accompanied by Tavayogi and Mataji who were visiting. A simple puja was conducted by Tavayogi.
This was followed by a puja at my home the next day graced by Tavayogi and Mataji.
On Tuesday 31August Agathiyar graced the home of 9 girls who stayed together.
The next day as the girls did the puja on their own Agathiyar opened his eyes in the painting of his at their home.
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| Agathiyar seen with an eye open in this snapshot taken with the camera of these girls |
On Thursday 16 September 2010 these girls came over to participate in the puja at my home.
Then something strange happened as Agathiyar was drawn to a small temple in the small town of Karai in Perak. Asokan who wanted to have Agathiyar grace his home changed his mind as he was living in the military quarters. He invited me to bring Agathiyar to his hometown. As I was planning to go back too I agreed to bring Agathiyar over. It was a Sunday, 27 November 2011. Once there Asokhan changed the venue again bringing us to this temple instead of his mother's home. More strange phenomena took place while there. We were told on arrival that the previous temple priest had parted his way after having an argument with the temple management the night before our arrival. So we went ahead with lighting the sacrificial fire or Homam at 4pm just as how we do it back home. Sometime during this ritual, a priest arrives and takes his sit in the background. Soon we are told that he has come from the neighboring town to conduct the temple puja. I asked if he would carry out the libation or abhisegam for Agathiyar and he gladly agreed. Before that, he took the young caretaker priest and showed him the proper way to conduct the various puja at the numerous shrines of the deities. He began the abhisegam. What surprised us was that on arrival he had hurried the management telling them that he had to leave by 5 pm but remained to conduct the abhisegam and puja before leaving at 9pm. Who was he? Why did Agathiyar travel some 205 km to this small town and temple?
On Tuesday, 10 January 2012, devotees of Agathiyar gathered at my home to celebrate his Jayanthi. Both the Nadi Nool Aasan T.Ramesh and Thamaraiselvan graced the puja.
Suren dropped in frequently during these years. He would update us about Kallar Ashram as he traveled frequently to India too.
On Wednesday, 18 January 2012, he visited Agasthiyampalli and passed on the photos of Agathiyar there. Agathiyar at Agasthiyampalli always had a place in our hearts as his image at this temple lives in both our homes and hearts.
On Sunday 20 May 2012 Agathiyar was invited by Maran to his home.
After this visit instead of Agathiyar going places, he had many seekers come over beginning 2013 to worship him at my home that took on a new name Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia (AVM) for easy sharing of location. So did we start two WhatsApp groups AVM and AS to share the puja schedule and charity programs respectively. My family and I went over to Kallar Ashram where we were given the honor and privilege to sing before Agathiyar.
Jnana Joyhiamma arrived shortly after our return to Malaysia. Agathiyar opened his eyes in his bronze statue at our home on Wednesday, 16 October 2013 in her presence just as he did in his granite statue at Agasthiyampalli in 2005 in the presence of Tavayogi.
It was the greatest moment in our spiritual endeavor and adventure when Agathiyar as if to acknowledge the years of worship to him, gifted us with this rare sight and also appeared in the photo so that the rest of the world could see it too just as he saw all of us that day.
Soon after returning to India Jnana Jothiamma engaged in travel to numerous places that were related to the Siddhas and kept sending photos, videos, and information about her visits thus enlightening us too. Jnana Jothiamma visited Agasthiyampalli on Sunday 19 January 2014.
She returned again to AVM the following year for a brief three-day visit.
Why all this excitement about Agathiyar and his image at Agasthiyampalli one could ask? It was the first temple built for Agathiyar in this Kali Yuga by King Kuberan we are told as revealed to Dr. VN Jayapalan in his meditation.
In 2016 Tavayogi and Mataji arrived to bless my daughter at her wedding. After that, we went on a trail of bringing Agathiyar to the homes of some 9 devotees. The puja was graced by Tavayogi and Mataji. During this period and earlier we had brought Agathiyar out to the temples too. After that short duration and period of his travels to visit his devotees both at their homes and in the temples to our surprise, Agathiyar asked us not to move him anymore from AVM. Today Agathiyar sits at AVM only seeing selected devotees occasionally. As for us, we shall abide by his asking and wait for further instructions. The year 2016 also saw the AVM family members visit Kallar Ashram and several other places in India. A year later Tavayogi goes into samadhi leaving us to continue his work in Malaysia. In late 2019 Agathiyar dissolves the groups and gets us to go within with Yoga, taking a break from Sariyai and Kriyai, worship, and rituals. A year has passed and we await his directive.