Some time back when I could not stand the atrocities happening all over the world, I had asked that the world end. But my daughter interjected saying that she had not lived her life. I realize now that I should not have asked that the world end but end my participation in it. I should learn to remain aloft. I should learn to remain indifferent.
When a devotee upon watching the newsreels shed tears as innocent children were killed intentionally in the war that is happening around us, Agathiyar came to address her sadness over the weekend in a Nadi reading. It is apparent that even the hands of the Siddhas are tied in certain matters. When Vivekananda was overcome by the sad state of matters where places of worship were being brought down by certain quarters of a different faith, he stood before Goddess Kali and demanded an explanation. She told him that it was her doing. I understood then that she sends ten men to build one and the next moment she sends another 10 to destroy it. I might even build one and come back in another faith in another birth and bring down my very own creation. We know pretty well that even God creates and destroys his creation. We too need to even let go of our attachment to all our creations or what we supposedly have come to assume is our doing or ours. Lord Murugan tested a couple over the weekend if they would part with Agathiyar's statue. As they remained silent, he let them have their way. But I understood that they had missed an opportunity to move on.
But would not our inaction amount to being selfish and self-centeredness? That was how I was before Agathiyar brought me to his path and got me to do charity and service. Can we just sit still without aiding another? Will we just watch our children fall off a bike? We would definitely run to their aid and enquire if they were well. When others sacrifice poultry and animals in the name of God and to appease the deities, many great souls and Mahatmas sacrificed their very souls for the sake of others and to make a stand and their principles made known. Christ sacrificed his life for mankind. Mother Teresa sacrificed her lifetime in saving and uplifting souls. Ramalinga Adigal tried to bring man out of the rubble that had fallen on him in the name of caste and religion but had to admit his failure. Mahakavi Bharathi had a tough time changing the mindset of people too. Tavayogi too who propagated the path to Gnanam, had to submit to the tide and built a temple for man who still apparently needed external forms of worship.
Agathiyar has at numerous times in coming to us mentioned that there is no right or wrong, no success or failure, no good or bad. In his eyes all were the same. He was educating us to see the same. Only and only then shall peace come upon us. We shall settle in the breath. After learning to let go of our attachments, wants and desires in this journey of life, we should learn to willingly let go even of the breath. Instead of being caught by surprise and finding that one day the breath that flowed in us had left abruptly or stopped, we should learn to observe it each moment and let it go back to where it came from. That is Samadhi or merging the breath with its source.