Siddha Heartbeat

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,

"When he leaves, he will rejoice, and the world will cry; tears of joy for having known someone who left a treasure of knowledge and wisdom; someone who lived to achieve his material objectives and his higher purpose."

Thank you for believing in me, Mrs Kogie Pillai.