After Surendharan and I spoke over the phone a couple of days earlier, he wrote the following piece summarizing our talk. Suren was one of the earliest seeker and devotee of Agathiyar at AVM. He came a year after Agathiyar came as a Murthy or idol or statue to AVM in 2010. He has since kept coming back and keeps in touch.
About the blog, I am not sure if it is too late to write, because you have posted in the blog. Anyway just would like to share.The blog is unique in a way that it suits those who start seeking sidha or who want to know about sidhas and their teaching. For me, the best write up was about your reading, encounter with your gurus and trip to india which was your first post if I am not mistaken. We can experience your joy in that. The spiritual journey seem to be something peaceful and nice and not something that is other way around. It is something that is nice to look forward to. And you also showed that sidha worship is for the whole family and not something for someone only which needs isolation. The sidha way of life is included in your daily routine which makes life better and not something that is done once in a year.
Your way of describing sidhas make us to like and love sidhas more and become closer to them more rather then just looking at them just as guru. How much trust we put them, how much lively that we look at them and not just just a picture is quite important. The question of which way of prayers is right is not neccesary. Whether a picture, statue can talk has been answered in this blog as well. After all, the most important thing is how true, sincere we are and how much we want to involve sidhas in our life is what matters. Whether a simple chant of mantras, recital of songs, homam, meditation, charity, all these are a way of connecting to the the supreme power and which suits us depends on which makes us happy and passionate doing it.Coming back to the blog, it is not too technical, it is not scary and it does not force readers. It just show the way of life and experience of a sidha follower. All the experience become a guide to move further and that is what shared in the blog. Obviously a part of the blog tells us about the miracles and in someway it also needed just to make life interesting and also to keep on our faith. The way Agathiyar works in everyone life teach us a lot and make us wonder how he can manage all these so calmly. He has been and is a role model in many ways.
10 years back, we can't get much info on sidhas from internet and usually its about the their history. Looking at your blog, we or those who are beginners can start to understand sidhas. Not much technical jurgons used and its more about way of life and relation between disciple and guru. Its not only about choosing who to follow or worship but also about what type of disciple are we to our guru. It gives a thought of analyzing ourself and how devoted are we to our gurus after reading the experinces of other devotees in the blog. It also bring some humbleness to us.Sometimes we forgot to see the miracles of blessing given to us by sidhas because we may think it is something normal. We may not know that some of the good things that happens to us even in a smaller scale could be due to our gurus blessing. Even if it is normal day, it could be a blessing from our guru that avoid us from any issue which they may not tell us.
A wonderfully written piece. Thank you, Suren. Suren has journeyed far and seen much be it the world around us and the many faces of followers and devotees in the Siddha path. He frequents all these establishments associated with the Siddha and has a wide experience. He used to bring in interviews with seekers and masters on the path and footages that have graced this blog and my YouTube channel. Tavayogi and Mataji would oblige him. As he used to have many questions we pushed him to the fore to ask questions and seek the answers from the Siddhas in his Nadi readings. The Siddhas too would oblige him. I told him he could start writing his own blog and put into it his observations and thoughts.