The reason I am sharing all these readings that some might consider to be personal and not to be revealed is that nobody else does. When I came to this path in 2002 it was so difficult to come by upon any valuable information either from established establishments linked to Agathiyar or other means. Some establishments had their own agenda to gather followers and promote themselves as heads, which brings with it respect, power, and authority. Then the other means was through books published on the Siddhas. But having bought every book that I could lay my hands on in my country, I discovered what was said in one was repeated in another. I was hungry for new information. When these establishments and writers began to take advantage of the internet to promote their activities and their works respectively, again I found that it was basically cut from a site and paste on another. The sad thing is that they never carried a note of acknowledgment or referred to the source. I was angry. I decided to take the bull by its horns. Rather than expecting others to do it, I decided to write. But I did not have much to go with. I was a new kid on the block, having to face the "Jambavans" or mighty powers who had been following Agathiyar for many long years. Nevertheless, I decided to use the internet and its resources to my advantage and begin my chosen tasks. What do you know? Later, Agathiyar tells me that he was the driving force behind my new venture. Going by the Nadi readings that I shared in the past five posts readers would have noticed that the Siddhas were using me to bring others to the fold. The Siddhas used the medium of the Nadi to help us identify our purpose in life. But sadly, many only went for a reading to find solutions to their immediate biting problem. Once the solution was given and the remedies done they moved on with their lives, becoming comfortable again with what they had done all their lives. When another problem crops up only then they asked around if a Nadi reader was in town. Then there were others who took it up as their purpose in life and a task to ridicule the Nadi and went to extends to expose the frauds, and in doing so damaging the dignity of the Siddhas. Similarly, there we many who "threw stones and pelted us" for worshiping idols, suggesting that we were stupid.
Life was peaceful once in the distant past, with people only living and gathering among themselves. Then man was eager to know what was beyond the plains, the hills and the mountains, and beyond the horizon. He began to venture first by walking the distance, then taming the mule and horses and riding them. Not satisfied at the pace of progress, he builds boats, yachts, and ships to cross the wide seas. Soon he looked towards the skies to travel too. Man became intelligent. His Arivu drove him to explore the further reaches. With these explorations, he came to know the existence of others too. He studied their cultures and traditions. He either assimilated them into his own or forbade or destroyed and erased them.
Man today is an accumulation of his past memories, experiences, thoughts, likes, and dislikes, etc. I had taken many births before bringing along all that was learned from these past births. Though they are not recalled but our internals knows and carry these memories and behave accordingly.
In National Geographic's episode on "Cosmos: Possible Worlds," many questions are asked and put forward for viewers to ponder in the documentary, too. For instance, do insects have a soul? Or consciousness? Are they aware of their existence? Is there anything that is exclusively ours? Ours alone? What is distinctly human? What is it to be human? How do we define a human? Finally, we are asked the question of the Millenium "Is DNA our Destiny?
We are asked if "kin" selection exists among animals? We are shown through a graphic narrative and taken through the life of King Ashoka who went through a drastic transformation, from a brutal king to a compassionate soul. "Kin" to him expanded to include all of mankind. This was the final transformation in man. Ramalinga Adigal showed compassion to all beings. Swami Ramdass of Kerala ran to hug the first man and tree he came across after coming out of his long meditative state atop the sacred hill at Tiruvannamalai.
"Why do you call somebody as ‘yourself’ or call something as ‘itself’ when that ‘itself’ is also a ‘myself’ from its own point of view?", questions Swami Krishnananda of the Divine Life Society at https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/disc/disc_216.html
Indeed, it makes sense. Each has an individuality of its own. This then expands to take in kith and kin. When this expands further it encompasses mankind and all. Moving further it embraces animals and even plants. Ramalinga Adigal's heart ached to see the grass wilt. How many of us see another as a fellow human? How many see an animal as a living thing? How many actually talk to plants? This is the expansion we are asked to work on.
We are told in the documentary that man was always fascinated by fire. "Every Zoroastrian temple was consecrated to fire. It played a central role in their worship, symbolizing both the purity of their God and the light of the illuminated mind." Why are we shown a bulb over our head that is lighted up when we get an idea? The Holy saints of the past have always been depicted and shown in their paintings of having a circle of light or halo around their heads too. We find similarities in other cultures too.
The fire had a significant role in our daily life and in our worship. What was lit to keep ourselves warm and keep the animals at bay also cooked the food place over it. The steam from burning coal fired the steam engines later. Every temple and household had an altar where a flame was lit. Supramania Swami, in asking me to light a lamp, surprised me by telling me that he shall watch me through the flame lit in my house. A lesser deity from the past, who was lost in the midst of the city, asked to be taken to his rightful place at a particular temple and merged into the flame of the camphor once it was lit. How do we explain all these, in the light of science and technology? How do we explain all these in these times when science and technology have got a tight hold of our lives and thoughts?
What is the significance of fire, flame, and light? The fire cooks our food and keeps us warm. The flame raises the heat within or Tava Kanal that when expanded brings a transformation within. The light expanse is effulgence or merging and returning to the source. Each time the Siddhas come, they tell us to kindle the flame in the oil lamp to burn brighter. In doing so, they are telling us similarly to kindle the dying flame in many. With the rituals and the external lighting of the fire as in Homam and Yagam pits, the tiny flame in us is further strengthened. And finally, using the breath as in Pranayama that expands within and austerity or tavam that build up more heat, the air moves the heat to consume all the Kalivu or impurities. It either purges them out of the body or disintegrates them in its burning heat. The Asudha degam or body of impurities becomes cleanse and a Sudha degam. The Pranayama techniques fan the fire further to burn brightly. As a fire lit by a stranded survivor on an island attracts a passing ship, as a fire lit on the tall minarets in the past tells others that it is time for the call to prayer, so too the flame that burns brightly within us brings the divine that is also in the nature of effulgence down, amplifying, and merging with us eventually. Just as we learn from https://byjus.com/biology/osmosis/, science defines the process of osmosis as "a passive process and happens without any expenditure of energy. It involves the movement of molecules from a region of higher concentration to lower concentration until the concentrations become equal on either side of the membrane", finally after all the hectic activities in Sariyai, Kriyai and Asanas and Pranayama subside, and in sitting quietly and giving ourselves fully in surrender to the divine the magic begins. The passive process, without our efforts and thoughts, without the need to lift even a finger, happens. If in all the previous stages we expanded energy, now sitting still in silence or in Summa Eru, the effulgence from a higher region of concentration moves downwards as a column of light and expands within into the level of the molecules, atoms, and ions. This is our target. This is our goal. This is the gist of all saintly teachings.