A recap of the week's lessons on Gnanam by Agathiyar and the rest of the Siddhas is appropriate at this moment for they have taken time to be with us and educate us to move forward and if possible to team up with them in the future or some other future birth.
Maybe a recap of the entire journey is necessary to picture the phases that we went through to arrive here and now at the courtyard of Gnanam dispensed by the guru Agathiyar.
Bringing us to see the Nadi in 2002 we moved on to Sariyai and later Kriyai with the coming of Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal in 2005. In learning rituals and conducting them we bridged both worlds that of the Siddhas and ours, the gross and the subtle. In learning Yoga in 2007 from him, we bridged the body with the breath. Again the gross and the subtle. In going within in 2019, we bridged the body, breath, and soul. Today in a matter of 22 years, they come among us to bridge us to the Param or the source of all life and forms.
The Siddhas having seen the magnificence of creation and its creator want us to have a firsthand look too rather than learn, read and hear about it elsewhere. They want to give us the experience. Words read in a book can bring us into the era spoken of or the place described because we can relate to our world. But what about the wonders beyond our imagination both in the Pindam and Andam. No amount of words can describe vividly these worlds and experiences.
Hence God placed the Siddhas to bring us there. It is only one who has seen it can show us the route, means, and way to it. For this to take place one needs to begin with their worship. It is a means to shed our ego and follow the captain. Nothing more. They take the lead and we follow. After taking baby steps, just as the parent lets go of our hands, they let us explore giving us the tools, methods, and practice. But they always keep an eye on us should we need some assistance. Only the strong-willed make it on this journey. The pampered and spoilt lose out in the game.
Agathiyar tells me that I had to leave my mortal body in a past birth having exercised Yoga. He says we continue where we left off. So he has directed me to teach it to others too. Another soul who had stepped into Gnanam in the past birth shall continue passing on Gnanam in this birth too. And so it goes on.
Agathiyar who sees into the past, present, and future has guided me well in adapting to the blueprint of my life. This was possible because I chose to listen. Because I listened he brought up this blueprint and the target for me to achieve in this birth replacing an earlier provision of me that would have been entirely different. Our lives are not written in a single slab of stone. It is written in blueprints that the divine chooses to bring up with the passing of time. It is not one journey pegged for life but is studied and replaced at certain phases of our lives. We are actually living bits and pieces from these various blueprints. It is quite similar to the many Role Playing Games we have played. Hence our destiny is shaped as time goes on. Though our fate is written in these numerous blueprints, it is overwritten as and when necessary depending on our efforts, sincerity, and eagerness, and the aspirations, desires, and wishes of the divine. All these shapes a "new you". The "new you" is then showered with their grace.
What a wonderful journey it has been as Agathiyar too acknowledges. But it does not end here as I am told. Now having seen it we are in a position to guide others too. He wants us to pass it on to others beginning with the family. That is the very essence of life. Agathiyar's 5 tenets for mankind express this wonderfully.