Continuing the "Conversations with God" trilogy with a reading of Neale Donald Walsch's "The Wisdom of the Universe" I was overjoyed to read the following, "Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now." When I asked Agathiyar if there was any further practice to follow having sped the highway ferrying puja and charity, and hitting the wall beginning in 2019, Agathiyar told me the same too that there was nothing further to do. The energy that has come to take its rightful place within shall do what needs to be done he added.
Neale shares God's astonishing statement that when one realizes "God's ever-present existence within him" he does not need God. Now I understand why Tavayogi stayed away from the temple puja conducted by the priests in the temples we visited, which many others waited and thronged to witness. He chose to head for the Siddhas samadhi or shrine on the premises of the famed temples we visited and meditate instead.
Amidst all the chaos in our daily lives, we are asked to "recognize the presence of god in every moment." Sharing our completeness with others is the best option in all relationships says Neale. We are here to serve the highest calling within ourselves adds Neale. We are here to work on our soul or as Agathiyar says to gain Atma Balam or soul power.
When I erred and made blunders Agathiyar consoled me and asked that I forgive myself just as he has. He went further to say that it was he who wanted me to have those experiences too. I guess what he meant was what God tells Neale too, "If you have caught yourself in an ungodly act as a result of doing what is best for you, the confusion is not in having put yourself first, but rather in misunderstanding what is best for you." Neale too shares God's words, "You were given these problems as gifts, divine opportunities to choose and declare, express and experience, know and fulfill Who You Really Are, so that in knowing you could show others who do not know." True to what Neale writes, "For you are setting an example, showing the way: "I am the life and the way," you are saying, "Follow me." You have come as a savior", this was how Agathiyar made gurus of his disciples. Neale conveys God's words beautifully saying that "a true god is not one with the most servants, but one who serves the most, thereby making gods of all others." We too have held this opinion that a guru shall never want us to serve him till eternity but would thrive to make each one of us a guru too, at par with him or even excell him.