If in times of our peril we stand before Prapanjam asking to make good and right the wrong that takes place, we never think about giving back to her reinforcing her health and strength. It needed Lord Shiva to come to us asking us to help Prapanjam in correcting the situation and bringing a balance when we were faced with eviction from this physical body due to the onslaught of the deadly Coronavirus. He asked us to conduct homam in our homes reciting the Mrityunjaya Mantra and Dhanvantri Mantra. We were asked to place turmeric in a water vessel and have all those coming into the house wash themselves first. We adopted and followed as told. This reminded me of Lord Shiva summoning Agathiyar as we are told to go south and bring a balance to the world and all its shortcomings in the past.
Later seeing a revival of the virus, Prapanjam herself came and asked us to do it again. Yesterday Agathiyar reminded us to place the said water for visitors to wash up before walking in. We see an increase in number of Covid cases now. Seeing the number of Covid and influenza cases rise I had messaged many to carry out the homam in their homes. Thondu Seivom Balachandran Gunasegaran sent me photos of his home puja.
If I had carried out the festivities at my home to coincide with the celebration at Kallar Ashram after Tavayogi instructed me to do so since 2005, later Agathiyar switched the day for us at AVM to coincide with the Thaipusam festival. Now since Agathiyar brought all rituals to a halt and had us move his bronze statue to another devotee's home the question arose if the new host has to continue and if yes whether to coincide with Kallar or AVM. Agathiyar answered our query asking the new host to go ahead and conduct it on 30 December 2023 to coincide with the celebrations at Kallar Ashram and the Adhi Kumbeshwar temple. He asked to carry out homam and abhisegam.
