Watching a BBC Earth HD S1 documentary "Wild Thailand" today, the narrator mentions that "some teachings advise that things are best left alone but they may also urge direct action to preserve the natural world". Should we then involve and if yes how much? Where do we draw the line? Or should we live things alone to take their due course or as fated. Would involving as in the former be considered meddling or just watching things take place be considered inconsiderate and uncompassionate?
Take for instance I would turn my head away from seeing the poor and hungry in my earlier years, partly because I had seen my share of poverty and hunger in the family too. It was part of life and living and we had accepted it. It did not kindle me to help another then. Coming to worship Agathiyar and the Siddhas, following Ramalinga Adigal's teachings on compassion and love, Tavayogi's exemplary teachings, and after having shown some wonderful souls like the couple Sri Krishna and Sri Dewi my heart mellowed for the unfortunate. I began to engage in charitable acts. We now know that we can change another's fate at least to a certain level. We can appease their hunger for starters. We can help improve their living standards. We can educate them. We don't need God to come down and carry these out though we believe he is doing it through us. By shifting our priority in life and caring for others too, eventually, we begin to realize that we are placed here on the face of the earth as vehicles and the tools to carry out his work. We become divine in the eyes of both the unfortunate and the divine. Man has moved one step up to become divine. He has shed a huge portion of his karma that he brought along with him. Contrary to taking on the karma of those we help, we have helped clear those on the receiving end. This was made clear to Siddha physician Dr. V.N.Jayapalan in his meditation when Agathiyar told him a Yakshi who he had cursed in the way past would be relieved of the curse when she consumes the food from a pure soul. The Yakshi had been present during the feeding at the doctor's ashram.
In the days when AVM was at the peak of its glory and many come over to place their grievances before Agathiyar, placing oil lamps before him as he had instructed telling them that he shall take care, and others called or messaged asking to place their troubles and problems before him or asking to place an oil lamp before him, I did so. Many believed that Agathiyar would listen to me. When the days of glory ended and Agathiyar had each of us travel our way using the tools, manuals, and practices given, he did not desert them entirely. Though he has broken the congregation he says he continues to listen. My daughter tells me the same. When she shared her friends dilemma regarding her life long health issue with me the path was paved for her to be operated on and she has recovered well. It is as if Agathiyar is akin to Zhao Jun (the Kitchen God) who keeps the family safe and blessed in Chinese belief. "According to Chinese belief, the Kitchen God reports events in the household during the past year to the Jade Emperor when he ascends to heaven." (https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation)
Agathiyar listens to the plea of his devotees and has done wonders. A devotee got an extension for his mother after pleading that there is much that he needs to do for his mother. She lived 5 more years. Another devotee was told that Agathiyar had extended the lifespan of his father after he pleaded that he wanted his father. A devotees father who was diagnosed as having brain haemorrhage and preparations where underway to carry out the procedures by his grace there was no trace of it later. Another devotee who went into a coma had new blood vessels grow and survived when Agathiyar asked to carry out a joint prayer. Agathiyar and the Siddhas gathered and performed a Yagam hearing our plea to save Tavayogi.
These days I have refrained from praying for myself, my needs, and my family's needs. He comes and tells me he knows (what is best for me and what to do). I have stopped praying or rather cannot bring myself to pray for others too. It just came on naturally. I have been made to realize that all shall be fine, though not necessarily in our eyes, with the least interference. Just as Agathiyar had us pass on food parcels and feed everyone immaterial of their status as even the rich do get hungry, and had us stop giving to everyone later and only to those who deserve, these days my prayers go out to the infants, toddlers, and kids. Their world surrounds us. These souls do not know anything else but only the family. They do not have vested interests or hidden agendas. They do not scheme. They are pure to the core. It saddens me when we lose them to death, when they succumb to illness and diseases, when they cry in pain and when they are bedridden. So did Agathiyar save a child when the parents brought him over. The soul that was to depart was given a new leaf by Goddess Kali after Agathiyar instructed her to do so. Though Ma Kali cautioned Agathiyar of the consequences of his request Agathiyar replied he knew but yet wanted her to save the child. The child is hale and healthy.
When my mother on her deathbed wanted to sleep which we took as meaning that she would not wake up again, and Agathiyar told us another birth was waiting for her, we let her go. We did not hold her back too as she was 95. My wife was told to let her parents go when their time comes. Another devotee was told that her mothers time to go was near. She took it in her stride as she knows everyone has to go some day. It is only a matter of time.
To those elderly and the young who have elderly parents I tell them to prepare and be brave. Leave it to the medical profession. They too would give their best and ask us to pray for they can only do the procedure but god and nature does the healing. We should be grateful to god for keeping us hale and healthy till a ripe age. Be grateful that the illness has only appeared late in age and not when we were a kid.
We won't possibly know the maths in life's journey unless the Siddhas reveal them to us. Man is caught in all forms of possession and finds it hard even to let go of his family members and friends. One would wonder if we cry over the death of thousands out there daily. What makes us grieve for one and not another? Patru or the bond that is formed over time. The saints stand aloft because they have broken all forms of bondage. Hence they sit behind and watch the world go on.