Science and religion agree on one thing now. They have come to meet eye to eye. Both agree that there is a need for cleanliness.
WHO says "The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes, so it’s important that you also practice respiratory etiquette (for example, by coughing into a flexed elbow). Stay safe by taking some simple precautions, such as physical distancing, wearing a mask, keeping rooms well ventilated, avoiding crowds, cleaning your hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue. Then dispose of the used tissue immediately into a closed bin and wash your hands." Most importantly dispose of the masks properly. "Clean your hands before you put your mask on, as well as before and after you take it off, and after you touch it at any time. Make sure it covers both your nose, mouth, and chin. When you take off a mask, store it in a clean plastic bag, and every day either wash it if it’s a fabric mask or dispose of a medical mask in a trash bin."
"Protect yourself and others from infection by washing your hands with soap and water or using an alcohol-based rub frequently. This eliminates germs including viruses that may be on your hands. Do not touch your face. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. Hands touch many surfaces and can pick up viruses. Once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose, or mouth. From there, the virus can enter your body and infect you."
"Outbreaks have been reported in restaurants, choir practices, fitness classes, nightclubs, offices, and places of worship where people have gathered, often in crowded indoor settings where they talk loudly, shout, breathe heavily or sing. The risks of getting COVID-19 are higher in crowded and inadequately ventilated spaces where infected people spend long periods of time together in close proximity."
"Outdoor gatherings are safer than indoor ones, particularly if indoor spaces are small and without outdoor air coming in." So if you need to attend a gathering choose carefully. In the event, you cannot "Avoid crowded or indoor settings, then take precautions. Open a window. Increase the amount of ‘natural ventilation’ when indoors."
"By following good ‘respiratory hygiene’, you protect the people around you from viruses, which cause colds, flu, and COVID-19."
When man has forgotten the basics, he needs to be reminded sometimes in harsh ways. Society in the days of the past merged such values into their daily lives and in their religious ways. I suppose they knew that man would postpone the work, they had a day allocated to cleaning up and tied it with religion and God. I guess that day was Bhogi.
On Bhogi, people discard old and derelict things and concentrate on new things causing change or transformation. At dawn, people light bonfires with logs of wood, other solid fuels, and wooden furniture at home that are no longer useful. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhogi)
When man has forgotten the basics, that he needs to be clean, it needs Agathiyar to come to say it. He told us to keep our homes and environment clean to avoid falling sick frequently. Since then we have been continuously sprucing up our homes and keeping them tidy and clean. For one we have stopped hoarding things for later use.
Then there is the working place that contributes to ill health too. I used to fall sick frequently in the days of me working in an office that was a 20 story building completed in 1984. I was there between the years 1994 and 2016. Finally, my architect told me the reason I fell sick often, that we were working in a sick building. How very true. This is verified by S. Müjdem Vural in his book "Sick Building Syndrome from an Architectural Perspective" where an abstract is shared at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-17919-8_20
If there are symptoms when user is in specific building and if the symptoms are vanished when user departs from specific building, those specific buildings are called sick buildings. The symptoms are irritation of the eyes, nose, throat, and skin, headaches, cough, wheezing, nausea and dizziness, etc.
When I retired in 2016 after working in this building since 1994, I never fell sick.
The surrounding too seems to influence our health. Earlier when I was on the project site for some five years, I did fall sick too. How is it that I fell sick when I was always outdoors? A doctor who saw me walk into his clinic once too often asked me if there were oil palm trees in the vicinity. Indeed the project was built upon a clearing in an estate and there were trees still remaining. He explained that if rubber trees in a rubber plantation emitted cool air these palm trees emit hot air. He told me that the frequency of falling sick is more when you have oil palm trees around. My father-in-law who was in the plantation sector working as a field conducter can vouch for this difference in the heat for he had seen the transition from rubber to oil palm. My brother who is a medical officer in the plantations too tends to agree. When I moved into my housing estate after construction was completed in 1994, there was the mist that brushed our faces in the mornings and evenings. They are gone now. While these are laymen's views and opinions, it was reported that an administrative center that was built on a clearing of a former oil palm plantation and sits amongst existing plantations is found to register a 5-degree increase in temperature compared with other areas. Indeed the world is getting hotter. The climate and the weather have changed drastically over the years.
Now our sight is diverted to the Prapanjam. With Lord Shiva asking us to cleanse the Prapanjam that we are all part of, and by doing it wipe out the virus for good, exactly what is this Prapanjam and how do we go about cleansing it? I don't think we can find an equivalent English word for Prapanjam. All existing words would only limit its expanse. Hence let us denote and go by the name given by Agathiyar and Lord Shiva.
The first time the Prapanjam was mentioned to us was after Ramalinga Adigal come into our midst to bless us. We only knew later on 21.2.2020 from Agathiyar that Ramalinga Adigal had helped us bring within us the energy that is dominant in the Prapanjam.
வள்ளல் பிரபஞ்சத்திடமிருந்து சக்தியைப் பெற்றுக்கொள்ள உதவினார்.
The day Lord Shiva came on 29.6.2020, he told us to give thanks to Agathiyar telling us that he was only there because Agathiyar was present.
இவனுக்கு (அகத்தியர்) நன்றி சொல்லுங்கள். இவன் இங்கு வரவில்லை என்றால் நாங்கள் வந்து போகமாட்டோம்
Shiva told us that among the many forms and names he was the Prapanjam too. He says that his energy is in us too. It makes sense now that he is asking us to enhance as shown by Ramalinga Adigal the inherent energy of his in all of us to battle the pandemic. It looks like Shiva won't take up arms to battle the enemy as we have read in the Puranas and epics but that we have to do it though he shall help us subtly.
நான் ..... தான் தவயோகி, நான் தான் சுப்ரமணியன், நான் தான் சிவன், நான் தான் அகத்தியன், நான் தான் 18 பேர் நான் தான் அகிலம், நான் தான் குரு, நான் தான் பிரபஞ்சம், நான்தான் நீங்கள். என் சக்தி உங்களிடம் உள்ளது. எப்போது அதை உணர்கின்றீர்களோ வீடு பேறு கிட்டும். என்னை வந்து அடைவீர்கள்.
என் சக்தி உங்களிடம் உள்ளது. நிமிர்ந்து நடங்கள். பெருமையுடன் வாழுங்கள். அகத்தியன் உங்களில் வாழ்கின்றான்.
Switching tones he then takes all those gathered to task for remaining in the clutches of Maya or illusion. He asked us to put more effort into our practices. He asked that we do it in front of the guru (Agathiyar).
நீங்கள் இன்னும் மாயையில் உளீர்கள். முயற்சி இன்னும் செய்துவாருங்கள். பயிற்சியை உன் குரு முன் செய்துவா.
On 4.7.2020 Agathiyar gives us another reminder to practice and says it is not a request anymore but a directive and command. He meant business.
பயிற்சி செய்து வாருங்கள். இது என் கட்டளை
On 20.7.20 Agathiyar again reveals that Ramalinga Adigal brought the Prapanjam within us.
வள்ளல் பிரபஞ்சத்தைத் தருவித்தார்.
On 30.11.2020 Agathiyar reinforces in us that he is Prapanjam.
நானே பிரபஞ்சம்
He had been telling us that he was Prapanjam and that the Prapanjam was in him several times. Although he is Prapanjam and he can resolve all our worries, moving the chess pieces and realigning the course of events taking place and yet to take place, they want us, mankind to actively engage in bringing the desired positive changes as we are part of the Prapanjam too. He wants us to know our true nature and potential and not to forever depend on all things external. Rather than adorn a gauntlet as did Thanos in the Avenger series to wipe out half the population, in our case to heal the planet, they ask us to build the Prapanjam within to an extent where it keeps all diseases at bay. It is said that the villagers would be aware of the arrival of the Buddha even before his coming as his energy or aura was far-reaching.
When Ramalinga Adigal came down on 10.12.2020 with full energy and laughter and became chanting the Arutperunjothi mantra, prompting us to do the same, he was totally and fully immersed in bliss throughout his stay where he could hardly hold his ground. He was elevating. He was constantly telling us to bring the Prapanjam within and that it would listen to us and accompany us.
பிரபஞ்சத்தை உள்ளுக்குள் செலுத்துங்கள். பிரபஞ்சம் உங்களுக்குக் கட்டுப் படும். துணை வரும்.
That is when Agathiyar told us to pray to Lord Shiva that the lockdown shall be lifted and we could come together to celebrate his Jayanthi on Thaipusam. He said that he too would place a similar prayer to Shiva.
பிரார்த்தனை வையுங்கள் ஈசனிடம். நானும் வைக்கிறேன். ஊர் அடங்கு விலகியதும் தைப்பூசம் அன்று அனைவரையும் அழைத்து எனக்கு விழா நடத்துங்கள்.
But the pandemic did not budge. Hence we could only celebrate in our individual homes.
Bhogar came on 11.3.2021 and invoked Lord Shiva to come before us.
சிவனே...உன் மக்களுக்காக வா...கதவைத் திற.
He asked us to ask Lord Shiva any boon. We were tight-lipped until I told him we were pretty satisfied as he had given all that we needed. Similarly, I was in a dilemma as to what to ask for when Agathiyar came several months earlier and turned to each of us asking what we wanted. I had nothing to ask for but he waited patiently for my reply. My brain was working in overdrive. I finally asked that I be born again and again and be given the privilege to serve him as I do now. He asked me back if that was what I wanted prompting me to pause and realize that it was not what was to be sought after. Later as I and Mahin discussed his visit over a telephone conversation, I told Mahin that maybe we ought to ask him Jnanam not knowing what it was in the very first place. Tavayogi always lamented that people always either asked for riches and position or for their troubles and sufferings to go away, never at any instance did they ask for Jnanam. Agathiyar eavesdropped on our telephone conversation for the next time he came, on 30.1.2020, he told me that I had asked for Jnanam. He went on to elaborate about it. I thought that that was "the" thing to ask. But it was not to be so too. He came again on 16.3.2021 and told us that the yearning to join them and their company was the ultimate thing to ask for.
இவன் சரியாகக் கேட்டான். திருகுட்டத்தில் சேர வேண்டும் என்று.
On 28.3.21 Agathiyar asked how many of us were doing the asana and pranayama practices as initiated and shown by Tavayogi that was passed on to Mahin which then reached out to others too.
பயிற்சியினை எத்தனை பேர் செய்கின்றிற்கள்?
சிகிச்சை என்றால் பயம் வருவது சகஐம். அனைத்தையும் நான் ஏற்றுக்கொண்டேன். சென்று வாருங்கள்.
Agathiyar followed the progress of my daughter's eyesight asking her with concern on 26.4.2021, "உனது கண்
On 3.4.2021 as my daughter was leaving for the eye hospital to be admitted in the ward, Agathiyar sent her off with some words of courage.
உன் வலியை நான் சுமப்பேன். தயிரியமாகச் சென்று வா.
I too had gone for an eye operation shortly after my daughter did. On 26.4.2021 Agathiyar assured me that he was the one who arranged for my eye operation.
உன் விழிகளுக்குச் சிகிச்சை அளித்தது நான் தான்.
When I told him I do not know how to repay his kindness, என்ன கைமாறு செய்வேன் அப்பா? he tells me that there is no need for that, "ஒன்றும் வேண்டாம்."
When I report back to him that I have failed miserably in the area of meditation, "மனம் ஒடுங்க வில்லை", he tells me "நீ முயற்சிக்கின்ராய்", appreciating my effort.
On 6.5.2021, Agathiyar spoke again on the Prapanjam making us understand that the doctor's role ends with each successful procedure done on their patient. Then Prapanjam takes over and begins healing the patients from within and without. He reassured my daughter that he shall stand by her and heal her together with the Prapanjam. "பிரபஞ்சம் உனக்கு உதவி புரியும். நானும் துணை இருப்பேன்." He shows my daughter the way to tap into the Prapanjam and bring it within to heal her eyesight. Again he reiterates that it was he who sent us for the procedures. உங்கள் இருவரையும் நான் தான் அங்கு அனுப்பி மேலும் சிகிச்சை அளித்தேன்.
And in the most recent address by Lord Shiva himself yesterday giving us the means to fight the pandemic and wipe it off the face of the earth, we saw the compassion and care of the divine. Our prayers have reached him.
He says, Man now needs to join forces with the Prapanjam and use it as a force field or shield and engaged in cleansing it. When it's cleansed the world will be completely rid of the virus. "When engaged with the Prapanjam the vibration that takes place in you shall become atoms that cleanse the Prapanjam. The virus will be around till that day (till that is achieved fully). I, Shiva will join you in prayers to heal the Prapanjam. Whenever and wherever possible continue with this Homam weekly. Those who can do join in. (In lieu of the lockdown). Those engaged in this prayer will be safe. I have accepted your Puja. Share this with Shanmugam. Let it be known to all through his writings."
மனிதர்கள் பிரபஞ்சத்தோடு இணைந்து பிரபஞ்சத்தைக் கவசமாய் பயன்படுத்தி பிரபஞ்சத்தைச் சுத்தம் செய்ய வேண்டும். பிரபஞ்சம் சுத்தம் அடையும் தருணம் இந்த நோய் முற்றிலும் குணமடையும். பிரபஞ்சத்தோடு இணையும்பொழுது உங்களில் ஏற்படும் அதிர்வுகள் அணுவாய் மாறிப் பிரபஞ்சத்தைத் தூய்மை செய்யும். அதுநாள் வரை இந்த நோய் நீண்டகாலம் இருக்கச் செய்யும். சிவன் நானும் உங்களோடு இணைந்து பிரார்த்தனைகளை முன்வேய்ப்பேன் பிரபஞ்சம் தூய்மை பெற. முடிந்தமட்டிலும் ஒவ்வொருவரும் இந்த ஹோமத்தைச் செய்து வாருங்கள். யாரெல்லாம் கலந்துகொள்ள முடியுமோ கலந்து கொள்ளதும். பூஜையில் இணைவோருக்கு இந்த நோய் பாதிக்காது. உங்களின் பூஜையை நான் ஏற்றுக்கொண்டேன். ஷண்முகனிடம் இவற்றைப் பகிர்ந்துகொள்ளுங்கள். எழுத்து வடிவில் உலக மக்களுக்குக் கொண்டு சேர்க்கட்டும்.
I understand that we are now called to connect with the Prapanjam. Once connected and as we tap into its energy and bring it within, the vibration that results in us generates atoms that shall then cleanse and rid it of the virus. We are to become channels and tap into the Prapanjam and pass it on to our surroundings. Before we can become transmitters of the Prapanjam we need to cleanse ourselves and our homes first. Before we can heal the Prapanjam we need to heal ourselves first. We need to prepare the vehicle for the transmission to take place. Hence the reason for Agathiyar to have us consume Agathiyar Kuzhambu and other purgatives that purge the body of the toxins and heal it. We see the need to conduct the Homam that connects us to the Prapanjam and energizes us through the external heat of the fire and heals us by inhalation of the herbs offered into the fire. At the same time we bring the offerings we place into the fire pit to reach far and beyond our surroundings, healing it too. We see the need for them to push us to do Yoga Asanas and Pranayama that besides healing body and mind, expands the lungs capacity to absorb more air and with it the life force Prana that can then be transmitted and shared with others. When this body that is the fortress is healed and fortified only then can we serve as channels to distribute the Prapanjam that has come within and in turn begin to energize others and our immediate surroundings, eventually healing the Prapanjam. By reaching out to the Prapanjam and bringing the body to the desired vibrational state and dispersing the charged atoms that build within us into our surroundings we bring about the healing of the Prapanjam. It is quite clear that God would not use his magic wand and make the virus disappear overnight. Neither will he sweep the virus away. The Siddhas are not going to perform any miracle to bring everything back to normal. They want our active participation in reaching out to the Prapanjam for help. But the Prapanjam too shall not heal on its own but wants man to align with it and combat together the mutual enemy. Most importantly as Agathiyar asked us to follow the rules, they want us to adhere strictly to the SOP's given.
We can see the amount of concern, compassion, and love that Agathiyar and Lord Shiva shower on us. Thus I was deeply disturbed by a recent Nadi reading that was in social media and blogs purportedly delivered by Agathiyar. A friend brought it to my attention asking if I had read it. It carried "curses" and warnings. There was so much anger in it. Reading through I could not stomach it. I could not believe it was our most compassionate father speaking. Reading the contents and the tone of it, I had my doubts. I saw through many flaws in the message. I could not believe it for many more reasons too. Agathiyar who reprimanded me for my anger and dictated to me on anger management cannot possibly have let his guard down. He has always told us not to confront others nor engage in debate. As for those who deviate he reminds us that time and karma shall be witness to it. Most of the time he tells us "Let it be." This is the Agathiyar we know unless he has another face, another side to him. If it was truly him I beg his forgiveness but it cannot be our father I told myself.
I believe we have brought back faith in the Nadi that is the vehicle of communication of the Siddhas, that was tarnished by certain quarters. We have come a long way in bringing the Siddha path to the simpleton and common folks through practical and down-to-earth ways removing the mystical jargon and complexity in it. Rituals were simplified for the common man like you and me and its duration shortened in this world where everything is in a rush. Like one devotee wrote to me, "Indeed I liked the progressive ride instead of sticking to certain practices. What irai looks for is love and yearning to know HIM (knowledge). Appa has cultivated that....." we have seen ourselves transported from Sariyai, Kriyai, Yogam and eventually Jnanam. Agathiyar was with us all the while and all the way as he told us that in Sariyai we served him; In Kriyai he took us in as his children; In Yogam he became our friend, and in Jnanam, we shall each merge.
சரியையில் எனக்குச் சேவை செய்தீர், கிரியையில் எனது குழந்தைகளாய் ஏற்றேன், யோகத்தில் என் நண்பனாய் ஏற்றேன், ஞானத்தில் நான் நீயாக நீங்கள் நானாகச் சேர்வோம்.
We sought him out to serve him as a servant in Sariyai. He took us under his wings in Kriyai and taught us his way, becoming our guru. In Yogam he came as a friend and parted his knowledge further. In Jnanam we shall then merge.
I am not a spokesman for the Siddhas. All that I have shared in this blog is my joy in following the Siddhas. For those who seek to know what they can gain from the worship to the Siddhas as someone asked me the very first day we met, I believe this blog shall reveal the answer. This blog is about real-life happenings and real people. It is solely a sharing of my experiences coming to the path and that of those I know personally or from verified sources. We have avoided discussing the mystical, myths and legends, and the highly philosophical aspects of the Siddha path. I am blessed to be assigned the task that of writing this blog. Dr. Krishnan had looked into my horoscope in the nineties and told me that I shall be writing later in life. True to his words, after returning from my maiden pilgrimage to India I began to write about it. These were the days prior to the arrival of blogs. With its arrival, I too switched over from my indianheartbeat website that focussed on culture and arts to this Siddha Heartbeat blog for ease of uploading media. With the arrival of my gurus, I wrote much about them, their teachings, programs, and activities. With the arrival of many youngsters and with us engaging in puja and charity, I wrote about these events too. As the Siddhas guided us through the Nadi, from those written ages ago to those written in real-time, I carried these revelations too. Today they want us to share their messages that are relayed directly. I am only an obedient servant of theirs and abide by their wishes.
When Tavayogi upon arrival in Malaysia and upon initiating me asked that I speak of the Siddhas, I backed off. I was still green, fresh, and learning. I knew nothing about them. But the Siddhas never gave up encouraging me to speak and write about the path.
On 18.5.2008 Patanjali asks that I spread the fame of the Siddhas.
சித்தர் புகழ் பரப்புவாயே
Agathiyar had mentioned the same in the Nadi readings I had in 2009, 2010, and 2015.
எங்கள் புகழ் பரப்புவாயே.
நூதனமாகச் செயல் ஆற்ற உலகமெல்லாம் அறியும் வண்ணம் நல்வித தொகுப்புகளைத் தொடர்ந்து செய்வாய்.
இந்தத் தேசத்தில் சப்தமின்றி அகத்தியரைப் பலருக்கு நீ காட்டினாய் அப்பா.
When I decided to stop writing several times its either the readers, Tavayogi or Agathiyar who stop me from doing so. For instance, on 30.1.2020, he told me that some still need this sharing.
நீ பகர்வது இன்னும் சிலருக்குத் தேவைப் படுகிறது.
Agathiyar mentioned the blog in December of 2020 saying that he shall speak our language and asked to read it as it's his opinion too.
இனி இவன்மூலம் உங்கள் மொழியில் பேசுவேன். இவன் எழுத்துக்களைப் படியுங்கள். அவை என் கருத்து.
On 19.11.2020, he says that I shall share my experiences.
இவன் அனுபவத்தைப் பகிர்ந்து கொள்வான்.
When Lord Shiva at the end of his address yesterday asked that the message for the day be shared with me so that it shall be made known to all through this blog, ஷண்முகனிடம் இவற்றைப் பகிர்ந்துகொள்ளுங்கள். எழுத்து வடிவில் உலக மக்களுக்குக் கொண்டு சேர்க்கட்டும், it was indeed the greatest honor that a follower of his could be rewarded with.