As Lockdown says to Optimus Prime in "Transformers: Age of Extinction", “You think you were born? No, you were built,” man too is built bit by bit by an intelligence, not the one we know now as A.I. What or who is this intelligence then who so beautifully crafted man and all his creations and gave life to it and released it to go about to do his hearts desire or doing His work through a handful? Man is then given the gift to create the things that shall assist his journey in walking the face of the earth, nay even to go beyond the earth and venture into space. He in turn creates A.I.
Man with his intelligence has contributed to the internet just as much as he has contributed to the wealth of information in the Akasha. The net never fails us in our searches. So does Akasha aka Prapanjam. Agathiyar says all we ever wanted to know is in it. It is a matter of tapping into it. I guess the Siddhas tapped into it in their free time downloading the past, present, and future of some individual's lives and wrote it for man to read and interpret to these seekers when the time is right for them to know. These came to be known as the Nadi or Olai Suvadi.
Man who is well equipped for his survival becomes a slave to money among many other things. This money comes through hard work. Yet there are many who work even harder than others but only make sufficient to survive. Why doesn't the effort they placed produce the same results as with others? Some have life going easy for them while others have to burn themselves out. It looks like there is an underlying mechanism that determines what one should receive. Is this what karma is all about? If so just like my grandaughter asked how God came about and who was the very first God, what was the very first karma I did that brought on suffering or for that matter a better life, or did life itself begin with suffering and change for the better with our good deeds?
Life is all about breaking loose from the chains and shackles of life and progressing further. Karma is one link in this chain. Just as a seed that carries the ingredients for life to transform it into a tree given the right conditions, breaks loose from the soil or earth and starts a journey growing towards the sun and its roots towards water, the energy dormant in man breaks loose of his hold on soil and earth, heads for water, fire, air and ether transforming itself from gross and seen to the subtle and unseen but felt.
We are so attracted to the earth's elements and its many forms that we find it difficult to surrender and let go. It is indeed a battle to set free ourselves from the grasp of these gross elements. Once we are free of the pull of the earth and the pleasures, we flow free without limitations just like water does, going with the flow. Just as the sun heats up the water in ponds, lakes, and seas into steam and vapor, with tapas and austerities that bring on the heat further transformation takes place. Now as ether, we enter the space around us leaving behind all forms.
It is about breaking the hold of the elements that came together to give us a form, setting free the life breath that sustained us all these while. This would be akin to returning back into the elements. The Siddhas, on the other hand, opted to withhold the breath in the body, by first cleansing the vessel for instance with Agathiyar Kuzhambu, and purifying it by bringing on greater volumes of Prana from the Prapanjam through Pranayama and strengthening the fortress by taking, for instance, Kaya Kalpam. With the aid of the breath that once gave us a tug and started its cycle in us, it gives another tug again at the Muladhara, this time to awake the sleeping energies to arise and do their work that is His too. As these energies travel up transformations take place within that bridge him to the realms of the Gods. Upon arrival at the door to the Lord's kingdom, the Siddhas are given further tasks to carry out. Rather than earn salvation for their souls they remain or return to help others achieve the same. When their time is up, they join the many other Siddhas in doing God's work in his realm.