LEARNING TO TREASURE THE PRESENT FULLY

Lying in bed with my wife I realized how we age with gravity. What if we could beat gravity? Would we be young forever? Lord Murugan is supposed to be always young. The Siddhas are known to levitate though they do not put on a show. A devotee of a group that was promised a new life on Mars asked me to join them too. I asked myself should not they revive this lovely Mother Earth rather than desert her for the New World? If it was not enough that man has destroyed Earth, are they now going to turn another habitable planet inhabitable too? Watching the movie "Interstellar" last night, posed the same questions and addressed the subject. 

It made me wonder if the authors of books and filmmakers get first-hand information about life out there and the many new gadgets and technologies that are discovered that become the theme of their books and movies from some unknown source out there. While the movie mentions them as only "They", I remember reading somewhere that all discoveries have in fact originally been made in another plane or dimension by the Rishis and Siddhas. Some on earth tap into them either accidently or with their consent, and rediscover and present them to us earthlings. Could it be that the Rishis and Siddhas who are light years ahead of us, are communicating with certain quarters and giving them insights into new discoveries for the benefit of mankind and Prapanjam? Though it is amusing and mind-boggling to enter and try to understand the concepts presented in books and movies, much of what is written and seen is becoming a reality these days. 

Watching the movie, I came to realize that when  Joseph Cooper who had traveled to the future, tries desperately to engage and communicate with his daughter from a past timeline, but his voice is not heard, I could compare with the Siddhas coming to us and communicate verbally passing on messages. I went on to say that in the event their voice is not heard they shall then push or move things or leave some signs behind just as Cooper who finds himself in a five-dimensional tesseract, eventually figures out the means to reach out to his daughter by moving certain books from the bookshelf in her daughter's room. That is when my daughter quipped about the flowers falling at our altars. Call it superstition, but the Indians always believed in signs like a flower falling off from a picture frame or statue that they recognized as consent given for them to go ahead with their wishes that were placed before these deities. Maybe the divine beings do connect and communicate with us after all just like Agathiyar and God according to Neale Donald Walsch mentioned "I talk to everyone. All the time. The question is not to whom do I talk, but who listens?" that they were always speaking to us.

What our forefathers missed we are experiencing. What our children shall experience we shall miss. Sadly much of our existence is tainted by our past. So too much of our future is glazed in uncertainty and fear. The present is preoccupied with fulfilling our ambitions, wishes, and desires that often are pushed on us or which we tend to adopt and follow from others. It is only when we empty ourselves that the divine can set foot into our homes. Bharathi knew this and sang the following verses.

When the divine comes within we become know as Siddhas. Ramalinga Adigal proclaims that he became a Siddha, 

முத்தியைப் பெற்றேன் அம் முத்தியினால் ஞான
சித்தியை உற்றேன் என்று உந்தீபற
சித்தனும் ஆனேன் என்று உந்தீபற,

Bharathi too makes a similar claim. He sings that there were many Siddhas before him and that he too has joined their ranks. Manonmani then comes to reside in his heart and dictates to him.

எனக்கு முன்னே சித்தர் பல ரிருந்தாரப்பா!
யானும்வந்தே நொரு சித்தனிந்த நாட்டில்
மனத்தினிலே நின்றிதனை யெழுது கின்றாள்
மனோன்மணியென் மாசக்தி வையத் தேவி

Bharathi in continuing his song of gratitude to Manonmani, reveals that Manonmani was amongst us as nature and in nature. She is the water, fire, space, air or wind and breeze, and land or earth that sustains all live forms. He saw her as Prapanjam walking the face of the earth. 

தீராதகாலமெலாந் தானு நிற்பாள்
தெவிட்டாத இன்னமுதின் செவ்வி தழ்ச்சி
நீராகக் கனலாக வானாக் காற்றா
நிலமாக வடிவெடுத்தாள்நி லத்தின் மீது

And to know that we are indeed dependent on all these five elements to survive, makes us realize that we are surviving due to her grace.

Tavayogi too wrote in his book "Andamum Pindamum" that the Gnani and Siddhas realized the powers of nature and worshipped it giving many names.

நமது ஞானிகளும் சித்தர்களும் இயற்கையின் ஆற்றலை உணர்ந்து இயர்கையை தெய்வமாகப் போற்றி பல்வேறு பெயர் இட்து வணங்கினார்கள்.

When man began to lose touch with his "original home", his soul, his breath, and nature and its resources, the Siddhas seemingly to save them from falling further into darkness, and in wanting to bring them back into the light, appropriately began to take the forms and the names. Agathiyar told me all the 18 Siddhas were indeed him. But for specific purposes, he had to reincarnate in these numerous forms and names. 

Over time, when man lost touch with Prapanjam and diverted away from mainstream worship, he began seeking favors from it and manipulating it for his purposes. Man who once worshipped these elements, had statues and paintings for Manonmani and stood before her asking to fulfill his individual and personal needs. Sadly we began to hold onto these forms and names, which began as a tool and medium to link and connect us back with the Prapanjam, thinking it was absolute.

I am glad that I had wonderful gurus who rather than taking the limelight and the stage, showed me to the source. I remember Tavayogi telling me he was a "nobody" and telling me to worship the source, Agathiyar instead. Agathiyar after years of worship to him, reveals the Prapanjam and points me to her, asking me to worship her henceforth. When Prapanjam was threatened by man's doing as Lord Shiva coming amidst a puja conducted by a devotee during the last pandemic, revealed to us, he had us perform a homam and chant mantras to heal her. He had the devotee pass the message to me so that I could post it on this blog. Just when we thought the danger was gone, Mother Prapanjam came to a devotee during her early morning meditation a year back and asked that we repeat what Lord Shiva had told us earlier. She had the devotee pass the message to me so that I could post it here again. I remember Agathiyar telling me that the reason he had me carry out Homam in my home, following an instruction that came through Tavayogi to do so in 2005, was not for individual gains, but for the good of the whole of Prapanjam. 

Just as every creation has a lifespan and an expiry date, after which what remains is a faint memory of our past and similarly we shall be mere memories to our children later, let us enrich the present and live life fully.