After 2019, Agathiyar stopped coming in the Nadi as the readers made their way back to India in the face of the pandemic rearing its ugly head. Agathiyar spoke through others instead. As he chose to come through devotees, there was never a break in transmitting messages. These messages were addressed to all those who were in attendance. At times he had messages for those absent too. Indeed the Siddha never deserts us. They might give us a break to attend to our worldly affairs. They might give us a break to recuperate from illness or bodily discomforts. But they never sever the ties. Not even death can do us part, once the bond is cemented. The relationship is beyond the physical body. It is a soul relationship that is carried on birth after birth. They come in each of our births to remind us of the bond that exists and try to redeem us. But the lure of the world around us seems to be stronger than this bond. We keep postponing our journey back home having settled for the pleasures that this fully furnished rented home has to offer.
I am glad I had a glimpse of the past ties with the Siddhas as Agathiyar expounds in the Nadi. I am glad I listened and followed his dictates. I am glad he never deserted me. I am glad he has come as a savior to bring us out of this cycle. How can I repay him? Would speaking and writing about him suffice? Would sharing our experiences suffice? Would building a temple suffice?
I guess only living the state of life that a Siddha lives could possibly do justice to them. But how are the lifestyles of Siddhas? What do they do and engage in? To know this Agathiyar sent me to India a month after Tavayogi left for home after concluding his visit here in 2005. There seemed an urgency on hand as Agathiyar instructed me to spend several days with him in his Kallar ashram. Tavayogi too questioned the delay. I altered the previous year-end plan and left for his ashram early. Tavayogi took me to the spots he had been to during his travels as a mendicant and the abodes of the Siddhas in temples and jungles. Later Agathiyar told me the urgency was there for me to know about Agathiyar in India. Agathiyar performed many miracles before my eyes. I was captivated. This empty vessel was filled to the brim with joy and bliss. I returned home full to partake of the nectar that I had received. I continued with my home puja with further guidance from Tavayogi and Agathiyar until Agathiyar decided I should open my doors to others too. In 2013 he sent Bala Chandran to my home after his first Nadi reading, to participate in our Full Moon puja. Soon Bala Chandran brought his fellow schoolmates from his "Thondu Seivom". Thondu Seivom merged with AVM. Later the lovely couple Sri Krishna and Sri Deviy from the "Agathiyar Universal Mission" joined forces guiding us to carry out street feeding. Rakesh from "Thedal Ulla Thenikal" in Chennai partnered with us and carried out feeding on their shores. We were a force to be reckoned with as we carried out home puja, and puja in temples, charity at homes, and the streets. We released an audio album "Agathiyar Geetham" initiated by Tavayogi and taken up by our local artiste Gowri Arumugam. But as all good things come to an end and in our case Agathiyar wanted each one of us to stand on our feet. With the advent of the pandemic, it made it easier for the break to happen. He had us dissolve the group and put a stop to all our activities. All our acts of worship and charity had tipped the scale and would necessitate another birth as we had now to be rewarded. He asked some to go within. He asked others to take up Yoga practices that he gave. And to those remaining he expected them to carry out the worship of Siddhas in their homes. He broke their dependency on others, masters, gurus, and centers where people congregate often to sing the praise of the Lord and the guru. Though it might seem that he had brought an end to even the act of charity, he expected it to continue now as "Virunthu Upasarippu" or entertaining those gathered in their home puja with food. If feeding in the streets and homes were done on humanitarian grounds, feeding our guests goes beyond satisfying these devotees. It satisfies the many deities whom they worship and the invisible divine beings who follow them into our homes. If feeding the masses at temples, streets, and homes served to keep them alive, feeding this handful of devotees, family, and friends attending the home puja accelerates the process of transformation in them as the divine nectar from the food served makes its way into them, feeding the elementals within the body and raising the divine energies. Salvation is now possible for these few. We become a tool and messenger of the Siddhas. Hence the reason Lord Murugan and Agathiyar want us to reach out to every home of their devotees and transform and turn their homes into Agathiyar Vanam. My wife seemed to have had an intuition of forthcoming events as she had spoken about it some nine months back. Similarly before the Jeeva Nadi came to be read by Tavayogi she already had a dream of seeing words appear in gold in palm leaves held in his hands.