When we purchase a thing off the shelf we look for the expiry date. What is the expiry date stamped on each of us then? Even our parents who manufactured us do not know when this product would expire. What keeps us alive and moving? The breath. It is said in Siddha texts that we come with a certain number of breaths that once exhausted leave us as a corpse. Take away the breath we are just like any other commodity that has expired. The breath is what makes it unique differentiating between the dead and alive. So we are asked to breathe. But as it is we are breathing each moment, right? So why is Agathiyar pushing the young and middle-aged to practice Pranayama as if time was running out for them too? What has he foreseen but was not revealing? As it is he says they have wasted some precious 2 1/2 years. There is a lot of catching up to do. Just as both Agathiyar and Ramalinga Adigal often asked us to look into the pages of Tavayogi's book "Andamum Pindamum" for answers and an understanding of the tatwas, they point us to the techniques that Tavayogi showed us when he was in Malaysia in 2008. I personally did not anticipate the power of these practices that could release the dormant powers within one till I saw for myself with practice and after Agathiyar revealed the transformation in later years. Neither did Tavayogi beat the drum when handing us this treasure for Agathiyar in the Nadi told me that what I had received was indeed a treasure house and true riches.
When I began practicing these Asanas and Pranayama I saw an immediate influx of breath coming within that felt like a balloon about to burst. It was rejuvenating traveling right to the tips of the limbs. What I did not know was that the blow of breaths awakened the sleeping fire in the Muladhara. It traveled to Manipuraka where it stagnated after some two years. It was only after another 10 years that it was released by the grace of the divine to travel to the summit and settle there. But Agathiyar warns that we have to constantly keep watch of our actions lest they fall back into the lower chakras and it would be a wasted effort. What after this? I do not have any idea nor do I want to speculate. The one who giveth this could also snatch it away. One wrong move and we lose it. He is watching each and every move of us. When Jnana Jothiamma asks Goddess Ma why a holy man who had deviated was still gaining attention and respect, she answers that people do not know that his powers have left him. So has the divine left him to fend for himself. The divine shall leave us the moment we default. He thrives on the earlier publicity and popularity earned.
So as Tavayogi did, Agathiyar had me transfer the baton, having me teach Mahindren and instruct him to teach the rest. Arming them with this life-changing tool, he sent them off to practice pre pandemic. But it is pretty obvious that none did it looking at the thrashing they got from Agathiyar last Thursday. Agathiyar had Mahindren show them again. They are to report to Agathiyar every first Sunday after the Full moon and stage before him what they have practiced.