Tuesday, 8 October 2024

TRUE EXISTENCE

There are many after coming to the Siddha path begin to dictate and take exclusive possession of the Siddhas, dictating the ways and means, spelling the requirements to even step into the fold. This path is not anybody's personal property to lay claim on. Generally upon coming in one sees that many keep adding on enriching the method and the means, the practices and the rituals, etc. Contrary to adding on, the Siddha path is one of freeing oneself from all forms of attachments. This is the final lap in running for office on this path. If you can let it all go, you have won the battle. There is nothing more to add. The search ends. You remain as you are - your true Self, one of joy and bliss, completeness and fullness and at peace. You have arrived. 

But for want of experiences, the Siddhas would have us go through our Karma, and live out our desires and wants. Once these are out of the way, then they rope us in to do their work. Finally, they have us drop even these and look within towards the Soul or Atma. The Atma then leads us towards our true purpose in coming here which is attaining Mukti or the state of Paripuranam or completeness. What else is there then to attain, reach, or grab further? You have arrived. 

We have heard the filthy rich tell us that there is an emptiness in them. It is peculiar that in completeness, there is an emptiness. To know light, one needs to move in the dark first. Similarly, to experience emptiness, one has to fill himself with all the stuff of the world that appeases all his senses to the max. He is filled to the brim. Then on the other hand, Agathiyar and Lord Muruga, in telling me that there was nothing else to do, made me realize that only when nothing moves us further can we appreciate emptiness. In this emptiness is completeness. We just exist. How puzzling is this world? We can never comprehend it.