We have to be accountable for our actions. But there is a way to balance the sheet. There is allowance to swap what is written in the stars by other appropriate measures. When a devotee was not in a position to go to India to carry out her remedies Agathiyar replaced it by asking her to feed the poor for 8 consecutive months. A guru could even absorb one's karma if he chose. Tavayogi in telling me that it was not necessary to carry out the remedies that Agathiyar stipulated in my daughter's Nadi reading took on the burden of answering to Agathiyar. Agathiyar till now never questioned us. When his guru Chitramuthu Adigal through Agathiyar in a Nadi reading for an AVM family member requested that we carry out Siddha Puja on a Thursday at the Tannir Malai Murugan temple in Taiping where he had camped once upon a time, listening to the improbability of gathering everyone together and travel some 218 kms Tavayogi told us to do it on a Sunday then when it was convenient for all. He told us he would speak to his guru. One wonders how all these works. How is it that these gurus were in constant touch with their masters who had gone into Samadhi or were said to be in the form of light?
When I arrived at Kallar Ashram for the very first time in 2005, Tavayogi in inviting me on his morning walk the morning after, told me that Agathiyar had come to him and asked what he was going to give me. I like many forgetting the message, out of curiosity asked how did he come? He replied as a light. Reading through the autobiographies and biographies of spiritual masters truly amazes us. Today the Siddhas are no more a mere word that appears in a book or article. They are for real as their energies are felt all around us. If initially they came and made themselves apparent during puja when we call them over, these days they are ever present among us listening on to our conversations and looking over our shoulders.
And all this began with listening to the Guru. Agathiyar in coming through the Nadi and identifying himself as Moola guru or the prime guru soon sent Supramania Swami and Tavayogi in the physical form. Today as both these gurus have attained Samadhi while their souls are engaged in doing the Divine's work in their realm, Agathiyar comes often with Ramalinga Adigal and other Siddhas to look in on us.
Though we cannot actually comprehend how all these works, but it is comforting to know that we can lean our shoulders on someone in our times of troubles. Though the Siddhas can perform miracles they chose not to. Though they can change our fate and chart a new destiny for us most often they choose not to but to have us live through it so as to hasten the process of cleansing and renewal of body, breath and soul. This transformation shall chart a new destiny that is not touched by karma any further. It is in doing his work that we stay aloft and beyond the clutches of karma, both good and bad. These will be the Jeevan Muktas.
Man has to move from a good person to a divine man and to a Jeevan Mukta. Paramahamsa Yogananda is said to have mentioned this too, "We should consider it our duty in this life to become at least a Jeevan Mukta, a soul free while still living in a body." King Janaka stood out as a Jeevan Mukta even while ruling his kingdom. After coming by the Siddhas and listening to their song, the Siddha Geeta, King Janaka went into deep contemplation thinking about the impermanence of life and how small a soul he was and how minute his lifespan was compared to the vastness of the universe out there and its age. Similarly, this realization came upon Balamurugan as he stood before the immense Mount Kailash. He told me that he felt very small, and his ego was broken that moment. Before the mighty mountain he was no one. Before the rocks that stood the test of time, he was no one. Brooding long about life, Janaka realizes, "All my dangers and calamities are the net, woven by the hundreds of threads of my own desires and ambitions." Caught in this net, he says he had enough of this weaving, and enough of this bondage. "Let me take resolve to rest in my inner chamber. Now I have at last been awakened by this high souled Siddhas. From now on I shall heed my soul, follow the Atma, which is the only sure means to attain freedom and supreme bliss. Let me sit alone and withdrawn. I shall win quietude in my own soul and find all my peace and contentment therein." Just as he resolves to withdraw within, his minister comes to announce that he had an appointment with some dignitaries. Janaka pondered for a while. At that moment, he realizes that the soul neither can benefit from action nor beget harm by inaction as it is pure and immortal. I guess this is what Agathiyar keeps telling us that there is no right or wrong. Janaka decides then that life has to go on but without attachment. He has to do what he has to do without attachment. He then decides, "Let me rise up. Let the body pursue whatever it has been used to. To restrain it all of a sudden will be wrong and damaging. If the mind remains desireless the results of actions done by the body and its limbs will be taintless." He leaves to meet them. Having reflected thus at length Janaka attended to all his duties of the state. He was neither over concerned nor worried. He was dwelling cheerfully in the present accepting whatever that came to him as an event or duty. From then on Janaka became a Jeevan Mukta.