As God does not have a gender, rather than address him in the pronoun "It" that we often refer to things, for our purpose we use the pronoun "Him". Similarly, the seeker, aspirant, or devotees are addressed as "him". Ladies, please do not get offended.
No one has seen God. What they have seen are images or visions of the many manifestations of God according to what and how they desired to see him. I too wanted to see Agathiyar and Ramalinga Adigal. I told this to Tavayogi. He told me it was possible but quickly asked if that was what I wanted? When Agathiyar came asking us what we wanted, I had nothing to ask. Since he waited patiently for my reply, I thought being born again and again and serving him as we did now would be appropriate. Agathiyar like Tavayogi asked if that was what I wanted? Thinking Gnana was what we should ask as Tavayogi always speaks about this state and asks us to come out of Bhakti, Agathiyar heard my conversation with Mahindren over the phone and the next time he came told me that I had asked for it. He told me that Gnana was not gifted but we have to work towards it. It was only later that it dawned on us that we should ask to be with the Thiru Kootam or Divine Group or circle of the Siddhas. This is how Agathiyar shapes our thoughts, desires, and future. Similarly, Supramania Swami and Tavayogi molded us into the beings we are today. We are grateful to our gurus. But Supramania Swami surprised me when asking me to pay attention to my Tavam or austerities, he said that only then shall he arise in his stature. He saw the Jothi before he went into samadhi at Tiruvannamalai. Many years later when the Siddhas began to speak to us through devotees, Dhanvanthri and Agathiyar mentioned that we had helped Tavayogi attain the state of Jothi and that he keeps guiding us. It looks like just as the student needs the guru to guide him on the path, and the guru needs the student to evolve further. There is no guru if there are no students and vice-versa.
Similarly, God only exists if we exist and choose to believe in him. Otherwise, he is just an ordinary stone or other material. Man shapes the image of God that was seen in visions passed on or handed to him by his ancestors. He brings life into it by conducting rituals and chants. We give life to it or rather infuse the breath of life into it. We help a particular piece of ordinary granite rock to attain a higher state of evolution by our worship of it. In comparison, another slab of granite from the same source or mountain or hill would serve as a slab on the path of the pilgrims hiking up to a hill temple or walking the corridors of the temple. Another could be part of the walls, the beams, and columns or part of the roof slab.
Agathiyar rather than have me read about the Agamas from books and texts, as I did in the days of my bachelorhood, gave me first-hand experience and an opportunity to bring life into a metal. The first mention of a peedham and Agathiyar taking his place there was on 8th December 2008. Gaining the consent of my brother-in-law who was in the midst of putting up a Brindavanam for saint Raghavendra, Agathiyar assured us that he was to come to bring the light within us to shine intensely and bright.
On 8th January 2009, he revealed more about his statue.
He had me commission a bronze statue of him with the intent to place it at the Brindavan upon completion. His statue was cast according to his specifications and in the image of his granite statue at Agasthiyampalli at a foundry in Swamimalai as directed by Agathiyar in the Nadi reading. Agathiyar decided who was to do it. Varadraj of Swamimalai offered to take up the tasks. Agathiyar was brought to the Adhi Kumbeswar temple in Kumbakonam upon completion where a simple blessing ritual followed. He was couriered to Malaysia. Upon arrival on our shores, Agathiyar transited to my home waiting for the completion of the Brindavan. Agathiyar asked us to conduct an abhisegam or libation to the statue. We were instructed to chant his name 100,000 times. We only managed 45,000 with family and a handful of friends whom we had gathered back then on 3rd January 2010. But the all-forgiving father accepted our puja as he revealed in a later reading.
What surprised us was that Agathiyar had told us that we should give life to his statue after Varadraj gave him the form, a replica of his granite statue at Agasthiyampalli. This I guess was through the chanting of his name. Indeed just as God breathes life into us, we breathe life into his images and idols. We have helped fulfill the final tenet that Agathiyar gave mankind after coming to know: the reason we took birth; and thence offering our gratitude and appreciation to our creator; serving him and fellow humans; fulfilling our obligation towards society, to finally help life in the lower planes to achieve a higher state through association with us, our thoughts and our actions. These five tenets that Agathiyar presented at the Tamil Sangam in the past and were revealed to us through Vashisht Vaid's blog confirmed the many stages that Agathiyar led us on through the regular reading of the Nadi. The Shanti Canto exposed our faults and the faults in the stars and revealed our purpose here. Through the Teecha Canto, he had us pay our due respect to our creator, offering our gratitude and appreciation. The Aasi Canto that followed on a regular basis had us serve him and fellow devotees by having us engage in worship of the Siddhas. Bringing us to do charity he had us serve and fulfill our obligation towards society.
The final lap of the tenet had us help life in the lower planes to achieve a higher state through association with us, our thoughts, and our actions. The mud from the river banks of Kaveri at Swamimalai that was used to encase the wax figurine, and the hot molten metal that was poured into the mold giving birth to the bronze statue that came to be cast, gained a status to be worshipped as Agathiyar. The five metals that originated from the earth were heated up by the fire element and poured into the mold made of mud that originated out of the earth and water element, from the banks of river Kaveri that flowed by Swamimalai brought forth a wonderful and beautiful replica of Agathiyar's statue at Agasthiyampalli that graced AVM, elevating these elements to the status of Agathiyar with constant and regular puja. Agathiyar revealed in the Jeeva Nadi that many miracles will be shown through this statue of his. This statue would come "alive". All these will take place with Lord Muruga's blessings. By performing rituals on it over the past years the metal indeed became alive as told and opened its eyes just as Agathiyar opened his eyes in his granite statue at Agasthiyampalli when Tavayogi brought me there. Agathiyar reiterates that these miracles had taken place in Jnana Jyothiamma's presence too, reminding us of the miracle he performed at AVM in October 2013, where during the libation or abhisegam, Agathiyar most graciously opened his eyes to bless all those present, including Jnana Jyothiamma who was visiting us then.
Just as the building blocks of the temples have attained permanent residence in the house of God serving him and his devotees well, owing to the reason that other elements and items cannot move into these sacred places on their own accord, we need to assist and elevate them by wearing on them on us or bringing them along as in the wearing of silk attires, the many accessories that accompany our dressing, and many other offerings like the coconut and fruits. Through the rituals, the materials and items used in these rituals served the divine. The flower petals rather than falling to the ground and decomposing, reach his Holy Feet gaining moksha. The flowers that are chosen to form a garland are used to adorn him further. Similarly, all the rest of the items used in puja of the divine are elevated to a divine state, releasing them from their lower forms. They too are given an opportunity to serve the divine. Taking on the energies of the divine, besides becoming holy, and becoming prasad to his devotees they gain moksha or liberation. While we appeased the unseen forces and energies in the other planes that receive our offerings through puja, libation, and fire sacrifice, the items that are used to perform libation drain away and both along the way and finally as it reaches the sea, become food for many microscopic organisms.
Rather than aimlessly travel this journey Agathiyar threw the loop and roped us in at the nick of time bringing us to his fold, bringing us to know our purpose here, and bringing an understanding of the workings of the universe and therefore saving us and the soul within. Today Agathiyar in the form of the bronze statue at my home AVM has happily moved into another home to bring together and elevate other souls too.