Agathiyar has debunked the purpose of coming to the Siddha Margam or path or way. It is to know Sivam which is the breath. All other definitions, meanings, and purposes are secondary products derived from the inner transformation, its process, and chemical reactions. The breath is also known as Vaalai, that man, as usual, has given numerous names, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, limbs, and form, and began to worship says Agathiyar. The worship of Vaalai and Sivam is in truth worshipping our own breath. Hence we come to worship ourselves. We end temple worship, home worship, worshipping the gurus, worshipping the Siddhas, worshiping Vaalai and Prapanjam in the external world but instead take her hand and move within the body as the entire cosmos is within it too, says Tavayogi "Andathil Ullathu, Pindathil Ullathu".
Phew! What a wonderful and enlightening journey it has been for us. Agathiyar has revealed all things, clarified the grey areas, and corrected the wrong perspective.
Agathiyar is saddened when he sees quarrels in families and broken families. He wants us to mend all ties and live a beautiful life besides setting the target and not deviating from reaching Sivam eventually. Indeed, our normal respiratory rate of 12 to 18 breaths per minute, and pulse rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute changes when we react to external conditions be it as at peace with ourselves and nature, agitated and angry, or in anxiety or worry or in pain and misery. He wants us to remain the same in all situations to safeguard our hearts and keep ourselves safe. I immediately reached out to the machines that monitor the oxygen level, pulse, and heartbeat. I was overjoyed to see all was fine, with the first standing at 95, the next at 90, and the last at 121/81.
Agathiyar explained that the idea of getting married was to satisfy certain bodily changes that have to take place. In the event one wants to forego marriage, he or she has to submit to doing God's work which he added was not going to come easy too.
He wants us to give some time to our practice besides making a livelihood, bringing bread and water to the table, and taking a rest. It is because he loves us that he is going that extra mile and taking that extra trouble to see us through this journey of brief moments of happiness and sadness, pain and suffering, and bring us to a state of peace and calm, and joy and bliss that is lasting forever.
Agathiyar had placed numerous markers in our path and journey. In asking us each and every time why he or she came to the Siddha path he did not mean that we were unwelcomed but questioned what we did after coming to it. Did we discover for ourselves the path or adopt the path, method, way, and practice given by them? If neither it was then a wasted journey of mere talk and gatherings without any evolvement on the level of the soul.
Charting the journey he brings us to dump the past karma by carrying out remedies as in going on holy pilgrimages, where walking the first mile itself would tend to exhaust us and help shed the baggage we brought with us. Next, he has us shed the rest by walking with the guru in physical form. By learning and taking up rituals we bring enhancement to the self and the environment. In carrying out charity we become compassionate to other beings and creatures. Learning and practicing Yoga we start the internal journey that activates the chakras and brings us to know the self and settle in the breath. With this state comes the Siddhis that are thrown in which brings the ability to access information and heal others, and many others that are secondary and not important to a true seeker, aspirant, and sadhaka whose goal is as Agathiyar revealed last evening to become one with his breath that is Sivam and Vaalai.