I am not a Nadi reader. I do not own any Nadi. But since I follow the teachings of Agathiyar, I feel it is my duty to clear the air on certain misconceptions held by some regarding the authenticity of the Nadi and its readers. The Nadi has worked for me. I have seen the Kaanda Nadi once when I went seeking it in an interest to know more about myself, and after a calling came asking me to come to worship the Siddhas in the Nadi, the Siddhas began to call me over for numerous readings from their Aasi Kandam that became weekly at its peak of it. I have since read the Aasi Kandam some 56 times. The Jeeva Nadi too was read at AVM several times as the Siddhas desired to address us.
Some think that the readers ask questions and use our answers to manipulate the readings and con us. If Artificial Intelligence (A.I) needs man to input initially before its uses machine learning and algorithms and counsellors and psychologist too initially have to be feed with input by way of question and answers so that they can assists us, the readers need some information about us initially only as far as to locate the right Nadi and only proceed with reading its contents if the seeker agreed that it was his. Agathiyar does not pick the Nadi for us just as the parrot does in picking a card for us in Parrot Astrology. We pick it up just as we pick Tarot birth cards. Similarly sticks that are numbered and placed in a cylinder are shaken and the one that falls is referred to a reference book to learn our future in Chinese temples.
In a Nadi reading session, if you are not attentive to the questions asked or reply wrongly or are not sure or a proxy for another or disillusioned or tired and exhausted, it could lead to picking the wrong Nadi or someone else's Nadi or yours but not pertaining to this birth but any of the numbers we have taken. For there was one Nadi that surprised me in the very first session I had with the Nadi reader trying to locate mine. It mentioned by parents, siblings, education, career correctly except that it mentioned my wife's name as another. The reader moved on telling me that then it was not mine. How would you explain that? It is often said that there are seven alike us at any one time. Maybe there was another me walking the earth and only that he was married to one Manohari. A neighbor I took for a reading could not identify his Nadi as he was exhausted answering the questions over and over again at each turn of a new leaf. Someone who already had a guru in a distant land was not satisfied with his reading. I asked him why he went for one when he already had a guru looking over his shoulders unless the guru asked that we see it. Coming up to Tavayogi the first time he asked that I see the Gnana Kandam. But I had already seen it and Agathiyar had hinted that I shall meet my guru. And there was he seated before me. Those who go with the intention to find faults or expose or with suspicion and disbelief, will find all the above coming out true in the session as our thoughts attract them. That is The Secret to the Law of Attraction. Or in the words of the common folks, the Siddhas play you out for disbelieving and testing them.
But most stop at seeing the Nadi reading as a form of astrology. It goes beyond giving predictions to bringing us into a path that shall bring us to eventually return to our source in a jiffy provided we desire it. Here is the means to attaining perfection or Siddhi and attaining Siddhahood. Here is the means to break the chain of birth and death. Even if all these are not attainable in this lifetime at least we have covered some ground here and now and can come back in another to continue working on it.
What we know are the Nadi's written for individuals that can reveal their past, present and future. There are Nadi's that are varied in nature as those were the days where paper or other writing materials were not discovered and everything was written on palm leaves. When I was at Kallar Ashram in 2005 for the very first time Tavayogi brought out a huge pile of Nadis of all sizes and were varied in what we saw as scribbles on these dried palm leaves. No one knew then that among them was the Jeeva Nadi that was to be revealed later. Mataji reads this Jeeva Nadi after Tavayogi. It is supposed to be read for those coming in search of Gnanam hence making it distinct from the other Nadi's in the possession of other readers. Agathiyar mentioned that one has to pray to Agathiyar at Pothigai before turning up for a reading to know about Gnanam.
The Nadi of the Siddhas is a means to communicate with them initially. As Tavayogi used to say to us that we do not need the Nadi and neither does he read for himself, when we are established in him we tend to drop the need to know what holds for us for then it would only imply that we still have a desire that of wanting to know what is in store for us. After coming to them it is only logical that we surrender even our remaining days to him to dictate and lead us knowing that he knows what is best for us.
In the movie "Pearl Harbor", when the captain lies dying and dispenses orders to the ships' cook Miller to convey to the crew, Miller comforts the captain telling him "Everyone is where they need to be, Captain. You trained us well." Similarly, if a guru has trained us well, we can take charge in any circumstances. The student shall continue his legacy. He does not go seeking another guru. He is complete, filled with his guru's teachings to the brim that he upholds and follows. I guess Tavayogi trained me well.