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Some 12 years back today, Friday 1st January 2010, Agathiyar took the flight to Malaysia from Chennai. Varad Rajh offered to take up the job of making Agathiyar's statue in bronze as specified in my Nadi reading in 2008 and 2009. 

https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2022/12/12-years-of-worship-to-his-murthy.html

https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2015/04/nadi-reading-no-34.html

https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/11/agathiyar-jayanthi-guru-puja-in.html

https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2015/06/lord-muruga-lobha-ma-kaveri-agathiyar_28.html

Agathiyar arrived on our shores on 2nd January and graced my home puja on the next day, 3rd January 2010 which coincided with the Annual Vizha carried out by my guru Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal on his ashram grounds of his Sri Agathiyar Gnana Peedham in Kallar. 

Though both Varad Rajh and I had not met he called me from India after receiving the email I had mailed to several Sthapadis or sculptors including him having sourced their contacts from searching the net. He agreed to do it after reading the conditions Agathiyar laid in the Nadi and that I had mentioned in the email. He did not mind traveling to Agasthiyampalli where he had an idea of how Agathiyar was made of granite and worshipped in the first temple built by King Kuberan at the dawn of the Kali Yuga.

He sent me those photos. 

Agasthiyampalli. 17 February 2009. Courtesy of Varad Rajh

I was fortunate to be taken to this temple earlier in 2005 by Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal where Agathiyar performed the miracle of opening his left eye before me in this granite statue.

I met up with Varad Rajh when he visited Malaysia on business many years later after Agathiyar's statue was delivered. That was the first time I saw him in person. Prior to this our communication was through email and phone calls. He never asked for a cent till the day Agathiyar boarded the plane. 

https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-note-of-thanks-to-varadaraj-of-bronze.html

Courtesy of Varad Rajh

Courtesy of Jnana Jothiamma

Agathiyar decided to perform the same feat and miracle that he did at Agasthiyampalli and shortly at his shrine at Papanasam, at Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia (AVM) too. He opened both his eyes and saw the family and Jnana Jothiamma who was visiting us. 

Agathiyar took to the covers of books, brochures, billboards, tv channels, videos and blogs, and websites too. 

Agasthiyampalli. 18 January 2012. Photo Courtesy of Suren

Agasthiyampalli. Photo Courtesy of Suren

Agasthiyampalli. Photo Courtesy of Suren

Agasthiyampalli. Photo Courtesy of Suren

Agasthiyampalli. Photo Courtesy of Suren

Agasthiyampalli. Photo Courtesy of Jnana Jothiamma

Agasthiyampalli. Photo Courtesy of Jnana Jothiamma

Agasthiyampalli. Photo Courtesy of Jnana Jothiamma

Agasthiyampalli. Photo Courtesy of Varad Rajh

AVM Agathiyar on completion on 8 December 2009. Photo Courtesy of Varad Rajh

Agathiyar upon arrival at AVM on 2 January 2010

Jnana Jothiamma made a visit to Varad Rajh and updated me on his dream mission of making a majestically huge statue of Lord Nadarajah.

Thondu Seivom Bala Chandran too met up with Varad Rajh while in India on 23 April 2014.

Thondu Seivom Bala Chandran with Varad Rajh 

That statue was completed recently and placed at the Golden Temple in Vellore. He sent me the link to his channel today.

https://www.youtube.com/@vardasvishvakarma4148

We are pleased to have Varad Rajh make the statue of Agathiyar for us.