Revealing to me about my past karma and its effects on my present life, Agathiyar in a Nadi reading later told me to act accordingly having known its potential to either save us from plunging deeper or to be dragged further into a virtuous or vicious circle of birth and death.
Whenever people come up to Tavayogi and share their grievances, he would enlighten them that it was their "Vinai" or past deeds that were the cause of their troubles and provide a solution if they wanted to know further. The solution was to worship the Siddhas. In coming to worship these Siddhas we are brought to read the Nadi, which gives an account of our past mischiefs and deeds. The Siddhas show us the remedies too. Following in their way then, they bring us to lead a life according to the Siddha Neri Vazhkai Murai, one that is in accordance with the principles that they found and adapted in life. This often was in tandem and keeping with the natural laws of nature, the highest values, virtues, morals, and standards in life that would eventually lead us to their state of existence.
The Siddhas themselves are not magicians but they use their vast knowledge and their ability to look into the past, present, and future to extend a helping hand to bring a change in one's life if asked for. Otherwise, they let things me. They never change nature for that matter. Neither do they mess around with our lives. Man is free to use his will to maneuver through life or the narrow path that he has laid for himself given the obstacles and hindrances that he has brought onto himself as a result of his past karma. The Siddhas do not remove them but give them the necessary strength and will to maneuver these obstacles. One still has to face the music for his wrongs but with a lesser intensity.
But generally having given remedies to soften the effects of karma, man sticks around for more in the way of seeking favors, and fulfillment of his desires and wishes. The Siddhas never want to be a partner in this. Instead, they would be pretty much happy to help him drop them. Only then can he move on. But man with his persistence thinks he can milk the cow for more. This is not the reason the Siddhas came to us. They are the light that shows the way out of this cycle of birth. They would never want to see us get entangled further in the web of Maya. But being the compassionate and loving souls that they are, they bless us in all our undertakings. It does not necessarily mean that we shall see success in all our endeavors henceforth. We have to reap what we sow.
Rarely does one walk up to them asking to bring relief not from sufferings, illnesses, diseases, pain, poverty, hunger, and enemies but to ask to be delivered from this cycle of birth and death. For one to come to this state of asking he must first come to the realization that it is all an illusion. Not that it is not real for pain and suffering and misery are pretty much real, but that it is forever changing in intensity and form. This is "Maya, the ever-perpetuating dance of creation, preservation, and dissolution."
Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami at https://www.himalayanacademy.com/ has given a clear understanding of the term Maya.
"In common philosophical use, when you hear the word maya you think of illusion. That's because of dominant philosophy in the Hindu world is Shankara's maya-vadin philosophy in which Maya means it's unreal; doesn't really exist."
"Maya in Saiva Siddhanta exists, it's just constantly changing. That's why Gurudeva writes "...the ever perpetuating dance." It's constantly changing; there's nothing permanent about it. So it's a reality but it's constantly changing."
So it looks like we have come to the Siddhas for all the wrong reasons. That is why Agathiyar in coming recently asked each of us why we came to the Siddhas and their path and what had we done all this while. No one could answer him for they do not know what they sought. They shift the goalpost. They equate Siddha worship to temple worship. If generally, we frequent the temples on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and on other auspicious days, coming to Siddha worship we gather at a center on Thursdays as it is a day for the guru. We sing their praises and leave to come back the next Thursday. This is not the idea of coming to the Siddha path. It does not end with these weekly puja and Satsang. There is more to Siddha Margam.
It is all explained in this blog. Take time to read and follow. Then the purpose of this blog would have been accomplished. I would have done my work to fulfill my purpose here.