Know that you are blessed if you have time for God. Know that you are blessed if you have space for him in your home. Know that you are blessed if you have given him space in your heart. Know that you are blessed if you do his will rather than yours. Know that he then comes within you.
If in the initial years of my Pranayama practice in 2007, I felt an expansion of air that felt like a balloon about to burst as a result of the expansion of the lungs and the Prana energy taken in in large doses, in later years I could feel this energy in the breeze and wind and the air as I stepped outside into the open. If the coolness and freshness of the air were initially felt in every inhalation, in later years it was felt through the very pores of my skin. It was rejuvenating and revitalizing to just stand out in the open. I realize now, that it is felt within even in a closed room. What was felt outside is felt inside these days.
If I could feel the Prana in the food, in the very first bite I took, that then traveled to each pore and cell in my body, taking a bath under the shower too felt energizing and refreshing to the core. As a result of these enhancements to the senses that came about through the practice, my eyesight began to improve over the years. I started wearing eyeglasses to correct my sight when I was 15 years of age. I was found to be shortsighted needing a power of 525 and 475. Today I have a perfect vision. The eye doctor who prescribed the glasses asked that I store it away. I do not need them. So has my hearing improved tremendously that noise, sound, and speech at times irritate me. I can hear the humming noise of the electrical and mechanical equipment, which is amplified at night when all is quiet. I can smell what is in the air, just as I can taste what is in the food. My senses are heightened and I can feel the energies even when I am intimate with my wife. I can sense and feel the energy that is around me. What a wonder.
Is this what Tavayogi referred to as what is in the Pindam (Body) is in the Andam (Cosmos) too? He wrote that as the body is relative to the universe around us, a study of the former will justify a study of the cosmos too. P. Karthigayan in his well-researched book, "History of Medical and Spiritual Sciences of Siddhas of Tamil Nadu", Notion Press, 2016, writes, "They (the Siddhas) devised a systematic method for storing these physical and cosmic energies by attaining an appropriate body first and then attracting the cosmic force into it with the help of the mind." It is a journey back home to the source. The tattvas are the bridge to this knowledge. Since one formula would not work out for all of humanity the wise of the olden days had us engage in Sariyai, Kriyai, and Yogam to arrive finally at the state of Gnanam. Once we reach the other shore the bridge is burned down. Gnanam is the dawn of divine knowledge that burns all our earlier readings and false knowledge to ashes, recreating truth from these ashes.
The body becomes a receptacle for cosmic energy just as it stores physical energy that is called on when the need arises. As we are part of the universe too, the physical body resonates with these vibrations, functioning effectively. Agathiyar tells us that he is this very vibration. To connect with the Prapanjam one has to rise to this state of vibration. Ramalinga Adigal helped us reach out to her on numerous occasions. Agathiyar had told me that he would bring down the Prapanjam. He told me know that the day he left my house as the Murthy or bronze statue to another home, that is when he would bring her down. Today we see her presence in our home. I guess that is the reason too, he told me not to move house too. Just as I took a step and entered a portal at Palani Murugan temple in 2003, Agathiyar brought the portal closer to home during the years of worship. Now he has turned the home into one.