Taking a step into spiritualism these days is akin to stepping out of the frying pan into the fire. If we thought that the material world is one of illusion or Maya the spiritual too has become such thanks to man. He has polluted both worlds. I guess the safest place is those realms beyond the reaches of man. To have access to that realm we need to get in touch with the Siddhas directly without middlemen for they could derail the truth. One has to go back to the times of Shruti or "‘what is heard’ from God himself", I guess, as "they are unquestionable and authoritative." (https://unacademy.com/)
It is becoming more difficult for us to sieve the truth from the false these days. Jnana Jothiamma once after reading a piece I wrote warned me to be careful from whom or where I quoted. Tavayogi always told me to have authentic references to authenticate what we say or write. Agathiyar asked us to read the original text and not to rely on translations. The Siddhas, he said will come to clarify, explain, and enlighten us.
But just when we think we know something there is something else related to it that has to be clarified. There is just no end to learning and discovery. Much of what the Siddhas predicted for the world through their messengers too have not seen the light of the day or have been postponed to a later time for reasons only known to them. But then of what use is the knowledge of what vitamins are inside the grain to a hungry man? That is the reason Swami Vivekananda said you cannot impart knowledge to a hungry man. We need to fill his stomach first.
"Don't go and preach religion to a hungry man. Feed him first. His religion, for the time being, is food."
For one who has the yearning and thirst to know all things spiritual, God has to come by him as a guru to impart the knowledge and quench his thirst. On the other hand, God who comes as a saint only saw half-filled halls. What is worse is when God is in our midst and we choose to turn a deaf ear. Agathiyar tells us that Ramalinga Adigal had a Jothimayam going but closed it as no one was listening to him or failed to recognize a saint as Baba Nanak's father laments, "In my courtyard, in my very arms, God's own form played, and I remained unaware. It is my biggest regret son that due to my ignorance, I could not understand you and instead wasted time in checking your pulse and fever." Agathiyar in brandishing his sword towards his devotees recently could not accept the reasons given that they had no time for practice and gave lame excuses, of having to look after their children, hiding behind them. Agathiyar told them that their duty ends with providing food, education, and teaching their children personal hygiene. He told us not to take possession of our children and even him. He asked that we take possession of our bodies and care for our health instead. He asked that we be not overprotective of our children and that the Prapanjam shall care for them.
Though we have much to learn from our children we assume that they are not knowledgeable and drive our old ways onto them making them clones. Agathiyar asked us if we wanted to end up just like our sick and aged parents. He asked us to buck up and come to a realization that the body is to be cared for and told us he had to come strong on us as he resides in it. He says that as he lives in us he just cannot possibly let us go scott-free. We have to mend our ways before it is too late. The body is the tool for enlightenment.
Agathiyar lamented to me many years ago that no one was following the Siddhar Vazhkai Neri or the way of the Siddhas. Now he has to come and hold class on the need to look after our health just as he held a one-hour session on anger management for me in my Nadi reading many years back.