Wednesday, 27 August 2025
NOTES & SONGS
Friday, 22 August 2025
MASTER GOWRI
We had Acharya Gurudasan or whom we lovingly address as Master Gowri, visit AVM last evening. He is in town over the weekend to conduct the annual Kriya Yoga initiation. We spent some six hours talking about almost everything, and it was a blissful and uplifting evening. Though we did not record the session, we have his previous talks and teachings on my YouTube channel.
Thursday, 21 August 2025
LEARNING FROM OTHER'S EXPERIENCES
While many tend to do damage to the ecosystem and the existing fabric of life, some work towards bringing light into our lives and a better future. William Kamkwamba, born in Malawi, built a small contraption that eventually brought, literally, electricity and water to his village. What was initially seen as a crazy idea brought change to his community and transformed their lives. An idea and the initial move and effort towards seeing it materialize shall become a reality someday. Similarly, Agathiyar never gives handouts but instead tells us to place our effort, and that he shall come to our aid.
I was amazed to see a video of mothers gathered at the Assi Ghat of Kasi in March 2021 and later at Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu in April 2022 in singing mantras that have been kept close to the bosom of men and temple priests in the past. We are told that it took as much as a year for them to rehearse online and in the confines of their homes and finally come together and perform in public. Nothing is impossible when men, and in this case, women, put their minds into it. This is proof of what men and women can achieve when they come together.
In starting my journey, after my first Nadi reading in 2002, in bringing myself to know the Siddhas by name and chanting and worshipping them, I dialed up their number to connect with them. After Tavayogi initiated my wife and me on his visit to Malaysia in 2005, asking me to bring the family into this worship too, we began knocking on their door. After he prompted me over the phone to carry out the lighting of the Homam in my home to coincide with the larger Yagna or Yagam that he had initiated on the grounds of his Kallar ashram after the Tsunami that devastated parts of the world in 2004, a bridge was drawn down connecting both worlds. After Agathiyar had me commission his statue in Swamimalai and worship him beginning in 2010, we had brief visitations from the Siddhas. Finally, in revealing that he was beyond all name and forms and that he was Prapanjam, Agathiyar has come to stay for good in our home. If Agathiyar dictated to me what to do back then, these days he lets me decide what is good for all and endorses the thought, act, and effort.
When I refused his gifts in the past, which included the privilege to build a temple for him and later one from Lord Muruga, the Jeeva Nadi for my use and for those who came seeking, and the act of healing others, he briefly had seekers come over to my house in 2013, moving us to form Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia (AVM) and had me spearhead this movement, that engaged in worship of the Siddhas both at home and in temples and engage in doing charity, only to dismantle it after six years in 2019. Finally, offering the state of a guru, in 2024, which he retracted immediately, he has me do nothing. Lord Muruga is known to have said the same to Arunagirinathar of Tiruvannamalai. Singer Pradeep Kumar walks us through the life of this saint in his documentary.
He shares further certain aspects of his spiritual journey in music.
Similarly, singer Rajkumar Bharathi, a great-great-grandson of Mahakavi Bharati, expresses these spiritual moments in his life. He had sang the Thirumanthiram too.
A friend and devotee messaged me days ago about his effort in bringing the lives of saints to the public through the net.
Vanakam sir, inspired by your immensely valuable and creative blog of Siddha heartbeat, I also started a journey to describe Guru Mahima by creating a youtube channel with name, "ShriGurupath". First series is about Sai baba and then later I am planning to cover other Gurus including Agathiyar appa. My focus is on spiritual meaning of their messages and Lilas. I request your blessings. Please subscribe. Hope you will like it.
This comes after Mrs Kogie Pillay decided to put her thoughts into words and came up with her blog at Aakshara Wellness
OF MYSTERIES & MIRACLES
Last week I came across a transcription of a seminar given by Sri Kumar in the Nilagiri Hills in 1996 about Agastya, Master Jupiter. He said that Agastya ... is often traveling with his disciples and loves to cook and to serve. Through serving food he likes to spread himself into the people and thus to adjust any imbalances in the mental, emotional, and physical bodies. In the scriptures there is the story that once a group of disciples in the Himalaya had the questions who is the one fasting most, and Maitreya told them, “It is Agastya, he never eats.” They wanted to see Agastya and went to him. Agastya said: "Observe me for three days.” They were very surprised to see him cooking, eating and serving. He was not missing any meal, and every meal was from our standpoint very excessive in its quantity. After three days the group asked: "We have not understood your way of fasting.” He answered: "In so far as you don’t feel that you are eating, it is fasting.” He does not think he is eating. He lives in tune with the universal consciousness and in such a tune-up the food is given to all the elementals around him with himself as the channel.
From https://www.good-will.ch/pdf/e_lunar10_8.pdf, we gather a similar episode.
Lord Krishna once sent three disciples, who were fasting irresponsibly, to Agastya in the Blue Mountains to learn right fasting. Agastya said, “Observe me for three days. Then you will know it.” They observed him. He did not miss any meals. He ate mountains of food but he had a flat belly. After three days they told him, “We cannot understand you kind of fasting.” He replied, “I have been fasting eternally. I do not need food because I do not eat for myself. It is fasting if you feel that you don’t eat.” We think that we are eating. Agastya does not think that it is he who eats. He lives in accordance with the universal consciousness, and thus the food is distributed to all the elements around him, with himself as a channel.
Sunday, 17 August 2025
PLEASE BE HUMANE
When a neighbor returned from a tour of Europe just days ago, I excitedly stood at her gate, wanting to know more about a photo she had snapped among many others and sent to her husband, who had to take care of their two aging dogs back home. It was a photo of a statue of Agathiyar in one of the museums.
But sadly, she went on for hours, venting her frustrations and anger at having missed the returned flight by minutes, hence losing money, incurring additional expenses for fresh tickets for the family of four, and having to stay longer at a nearby hotel until the day of their flight back, which was some four days later. So I stepped back and continued my evening walk around the neighborhood, knowing that I would not get a cheery and beautiful story of her trip for now.
When I returned from my maiden trip to India in 2003 and wrote about it on my then website, indianheartbeat, a reader who became a devotee of Agathiyar and dropped by my home in later years, commented that I was the only one who never wrote anything "bad" and negative about her country of origin. I told her that I went over to carry out my sole purpose, that of carrying out remedies as dictated by Agathiyar in the Nadi reading and only saw what I wanted to see and I added that I could show her the slums and also dirty streets, and clogged drains in our capital city, too.
Rashmi Narayan writes on https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/the-reason-why-i-ll-never-go-on-another-slum-tour/ about why she would never go on a slum tour after a man asked her, ‘Do they think we are in a zoo?’ pointing to a tour group who were taking photos of his house, situated in the labyrinth of Mumbai’s Dharavi. He asked her further if he could go into the neighbourhood of the rich and famous, roam freely, and take photos of their mansions. "How is this fair?’ he asked. He drove a point there. Are the poor and unfortunate mere exhibits to be photographed by tourist walking past without extending any aid or help or bringing a change in their lives? It reminds us of those who picked up people who looked different and brought them back to their country, and exhibited them in their shows back in the past, for their mere curiosity and entertainment.
Monday, 11 August 2025
THE TOOL
Thursday, 7 August 2025
THE COMING OF AGATHIYAR
Readers might wonder when I mention in these blog posts that Agathiyar or other Siddhas, gurus, masters, and deities came and spoke to us, how they came. I am equally baffled by these happenings, but it is all true. My journey on the Siddha path started with my very first Kaanda Nadi reading that included the Shanti Parigara Kaandam and Gnana Kaandam in 2002. Agathiyar addressed me then. He came as the written word. Then came a gap before my second reading, which arrived three years later in 2005, as I turned 43. Soon, there were regular and, at times, weekly readings with Agathiyar and other Siddhas calling me and addressing me through their Aasi Nadi readings, as opposed to the first Kaanda Nadi reading that I had initially sought.
When Agathiyar had me commission his bronze statue to be made in Swamimalai, and he arrived on our shores in 2010, he opened both his eyes in this statue in the presence of my family and Jnana Jothiamma, a Keralite devotee residing in the USA, who was visiting us in 2013. The image in the header of this blog, as seen above, carries this sacred moment when Agathiyar opened his eyes during the libation or Abhisegam. The first time he opened his eyes, only the left eye, was in the presence of Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal as he brought me to Agasthiyampalli in 2005.
There were several Jeeva Nadi readings thrown in along the way, including via Tavayogi, who had one in his possession. After several dozen readings, it all stopped in 2019 when the pandemic arrived, and the Nadi readers packed their bags and left Malaysia for their homeland in India.
Agathiyar then began to come through, devotees to guide us further in the absence of both the Nadi readers and both my gurus after their demise. I have carried some of these messages on my YouTube channel. Finally, he put an end to coming through devotees, too, unless he had to clarify matters, asking us why he had to come as he was already living within and in all of us and guiding us. He then came during the moments when he moved devotees to sit in meditation, where he dictated to them his message.
Then he threw in the shocking directive asking us to even let go of him, asking us further, how else can we become one? He was bringing us from Dvaita to Advaita. It reminds us of Tirumoolar asking us to even shed our desire and hold on Lord Siva.
Agathiyar, who came as the written word, said to have been written in the way past as the Kaanda Nadi, and later began to write in real time as in the Aasi Kaandam, soon through the Jeeva Nadi appeared as golden letters appearing in the moment as one sits before the reader. If he had revealed to me that he would come within me while my soul shall reside momentarily as we celebrated his coming in the form of the statue, in later years when he began coming "in person," entering others, he merged in these souls momentarily to speak, address, and heal. He did not pick at random any Tom, Dick, and Harry to come and speak through, but chose only those who could resonate with and withstand his enormous energy, which was only a fraction then. He has since then moved into our homes and our hearts. He spoke. He healed. He joked. He laughed. He shared his sadness. He became a part of the family, sitting with us and chatting, and having food. Then he moved in us, moving us, and moving us to drop the expectation of desiring that he comes through another to address us. He is here to stay. It now stands at that.
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
SELF REALIZATION
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
THE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
Friday, 25 July 2025
BLISS
Thursday, 24 July 2025
LISTENING
We have to regain our freedom. We are addicted to so many things. We are caught in the snare of so many things that we do not realize these are traps. When realization dawns, we find it difficult and too late to undo the knot. A battle then unfolds and ensues within. A battle between the dark forces and light. As much as one wants to shed their old clothes, one often finds that we have grown into them very comfortably, and it has become a part of our character and image. People know us through this image. Though the wise ones tell us that there is no right and wrong and that it was all happening as willed, we cannot bring ourselves to accept it. But then on the other hand, we convince ourselves to accept what we indulge in heavily and happily continue doing it.
Sunday, 20 July 2025
LISTEN TO THE SOUL
Friday, 18 July 2025
FURTHER LEARNING
WHAT GOOD AM I?
What good am I - if I'm like all the restIf I just turn away - when I see how you're dressedIf I shut myself off - so I can't hear you cryWhat good am I?What good am I - if I know and don't doIf I see and don't say - if I look straight through youIf I turn a deaf ear - to the thundering skyWhat good am I?What good am I - while you softly weepAnd I hear in my head - what you say in your sleepAnd I freeze in the moment - like the rest who don't tryWhat good am I?What good am I?What good am I then - to others and meIf I've had every chance - and yet still fail to seeWith my hands tied must I - not wonder withinWho tied them and why - and where must I have been?What good am I if I say foolish thingsAnd I laugh in the face - of what sorrow bringsAnd I just turn my back - while you silently dieWhat good am I?What good am I?What good am I?
(Source: https://genius.com/Tom-jones-what-good-am-i-lyrics)
"She could exclaim in a letter written once to a priest: "If I ever become a saint — I will surely be one of 'darkness'". This darkness was not an experience of depression or despair. Rather, it was the shadow cast in her soul by the overwhelming light of God's presence: God utterly present and yet utterly hidden. His intimate, purifying love, experienced as a devastating absence and even, on occasion, as a complete abandonment. On 17 May 1964, she described the state of her soul with these astonishing words: "To be in love and yet not to love, to live by faith and yet not to believe. To spend myself and yet be in total darkness".
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
ATMA VICHARA
I had written in the last post asking, "What then is the means to awake from this dream and become detached entirely from it?" Agathiyar came today to reveal the means. It is only through "Atma Vichara" or "Knowing the Soul" that we can escape from Maya and the Unreal. He added that all his creations were pure in essence and pure to the soul. Man, through his mind, thoughts, and actions, has tainted, manipulated, and diluted its purity.
Atma Vichara or Self-enquiry was what was taught by Bhagawan Ramana, too. We learn that it means having "the constant attention to the inner awareness of 'I' or 'I am" to arrive at the 'I' thought.
Ramana Mahirishi taught that the "I"-thought will disappear and only "I-I" or self-awareness remains. This results in an "effortless awareness of being", and by staying with it this "I-I" gradually destroys the vasanas "which cause the 'I'-thought to rise," and finally the 'I'-thought never rises again, which is Self-realization or liberation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/)
Agathiyar added further that there was no right and wrong and that it differed in our respective perspectives, sight, and vision. The Puranas were not learned and understood in its entirety he added. He added that there was no such thing as harm done by others, but only that which we had brought onto ourselves. To a devotee who was present he asked her to read this blog starting with the very first posts.
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
NO WAY OUT
Thursday, 10 July 2025
GURU PURNIMA - WHEN THE PRAPANJAM SUSTAINS US, WORKS IN US & THROUGH US
Saints are one in their work as divine channels. They link us up with the source from which all bliss flows: love. They bake the unbaked pots and make them fit to receive the divine bliss. They illuminate the path by removing all the darkness that holds us back. Their work does not end with the energizing or enlightening of some select few here and there. They also serve as the unflickering flame helping to light other candles. What bliss and joy Hanuman brought to his devotee Tulsidas! And what bliss and joy Tulsidas himself has scattered to millions of other devotees, helping to rekindle their lamps, although he himself parted with his body long, long ago. This has been the case with many great saints and their disciples, from Guru Maharaj to Shyama Charan, from Ramkrishna to Vivekananda. Through them and their own disciples they live in the memory of many old people. The work of the saints goes on, whether we know it or not.
Tavayogi, knowing pretty well that I would hold on to his physical form and offer obeisance and worship his image, stopped me in my tracks the day I showed outright joy and happiness in having him visit my family home back in 2005. I am glad he did that, although it hurt so much then. He showed me instead to Agathiyar and asked me to hold on to him tightly. Agathiyar, coming to us some time back, even asked that I drop my hold on him, asking how else we could become one? Tavayogi took a physical form to carry out his mission here, representing what Agathiyar stood for and preaching the Siddha ways. Now that it is done, he has merged with Agathiyar. Agathiyar, in coming to us, told us that he had to step in to guide us as Tavayogi was doing their work in their realm. Dhanvantri, in coming to us, told us that Tavayogi had become Light or Jothi. Now that he has merged with Agathiyar, today, even as Tavayogi is with us in the subtle form, guiding us on, we do not worship the form he took in this birth, but instead the source.
All the saints come to dispel the darkness, ignorance, and the veil that prevents us from knowing our true selves. They work to bring us back on track to return to the source, starting us with external worship of the divine and slowly bringing us within. Sadly, we chose to worship the guru in physical form instead of forgetting his message to go beyond form and reach out to the source that is within the Guru and all of us. When all gurus are said to have merged with the Adhi or Mulam or source, why do we need to retain their images and forms, either physically or in our thoughts and minds? What is retained is that of the source. This is said to be the form of Light. We are to become it too.
Tavayogi gave me a taste of nature by bringing me to the abodes of the Siddhas, connecting me with Prapanjam rather than handing out notes and conducting courses and exams. He took me on the practical path again by giving me and several others Yoga practices to carry out in 2007, which forced the dormant energies to awaken and rise, culminating in pain and agony in 2010/11. Agathiyar broke the bund that held back the energies that had stagnated in the Manipuraka, after another 12 years, in 2022. When I asked him if there was anything further that I needed to do, he replied "Nothing" and that the energies would do their work. Ramalinga Adigal came to connect us with the Prapanjam too, after Agathiyar revealed that the Prapanjam was in him and that he was in it too. The Prapanjam is honoring all our wishes and showering us with gifts that we never desired. It is pretty obvious that the Prapanjam is at work now, as Agathiyar said.
Friday, 4 July 2025
MUSIC THAT BONDS PEOPLE
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE
When I was a kid, I used to draw and paint well and thought of becoming an artist, but good sense told me that I couldn't make it a profession, growing up in the seventies and eighties. I used to watch lots of movies and carried a desire to direct one, but again, good sense showed me all the trials and tribulations I would face in making one back then. I took up Civil Engineering as a profession in college instead, following in the footsteps of my brother-in-law. Maybe that is the reason Agathiyar and later Lord Muruga wanted me to build a temple for them, thinking that I shall again follow in the footsteps of my brother-in-law, who later came to build a temple for Saint Raghavendra. Though I was in the projects, an invitation from my boss to serve as secretariat to a committee and a word of advice from an officer, Mr. Segaran, who resigned his job and departed for Paramahansa Yogananda's Ashram in Ranchi to become a monk, opened the door to better things that come my way. Taking up Mr. Segaran's advice, I quickly picked up the skills to do presentations and simple animations for the department, and gathered sufficient knowledge on HTML to work on my first website, "indianheartbeat". When Tavayogi came along, I began to make videos of him and his Kallar Ashram and uploaded them on YouTube. Finding blogging easier to incorporate videos and pictures compared with websites, I switched to blogging, giving birth to "Siddha Heartbeat". As Supramania Swami of Tiruvannamalai told me, no effort is wasted; all that I picked up over time has come to my aid now. Coming to the worship of the Siddhas, I continued taking notes and writing about my pilgrimages, my gurus, encounters, and experiences. I uploaded these as ebooks online. If Supramania Swami ignited the fire in me, both Tavayogi and Agathiyar kept the fire burning in me. The day Agathiyar decides to hold his breath, mine will stop too. Will I be remembered? I hope, not for all the wrong reasons, but like I remember my gurus and Agathiyar?
Kogie Pillai quoted from Robin Sharma’s “Who Will Cry When You Die” (1999), “Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice" in her blog at https://aaksharawellness.blogspot.com/. She believes I will, as she wrote further that,
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