If during the onset of the pandemic in 2019/2020 we were asked to energize and give back to the Prapanjam in renewed form what we had taken from it, today we are asked to come together collectively and cleanse it again of all the debris that we have hurled onto it and to heal it - again. When the pandemic got out of hand and the numbers began to escalate again, Mahindren initiated the ritual of conducting a Homam telling me that if Tavayogi was around he would have done the same too. Taking the cue and suggestion that the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra and Dhanvantri Mantra would be appropriate as the former removes fear and the latter acts as a shield, Mahindren set out to light the fire in his home with his family. Lord Shiva came immediately after the ritual and endorsed his act and answered our worries.
"மனிதர்கள் பிரபஞ்சத்தோடு இணைந்து பிரபஞ்சத்தைக் கவசமாய் பயன்படுத்தி பிரபஞ்சத்தைச் சுத்தம் செய்ய வேண்டும். பிரபஞ்சம் சுத்தம் அடையும் தருணம் இந்த நோய் முற்றிலும் குணமடையும். பிரபஞ்சத்தோடு இணையும்பொழுது உங்களில் ஏற்படும் அதிர்வுகள் அணுவாய் மாறிப் பிரபஞ்சத்தைத் தூய்மை செய்யும். அதுநாள் வரை இந்த நோய் நீண்டகாலம் இருக்கச் செய்யும். சிவன் நானும் உங்களோடு இணைந்து பிரார்த்தனைகளை முன்வேய்ப்பேன் பிரபஞ்சம் தூய்மை பெற. முடிந்தமட்டிலும் ஒவ்வொருவரும் இந்த ஹோமத்தைச் வாரம் ஒரு நாள் செய்து வாருங்கள். யாரெல்லாம் கலந்துகொள்ள முடியுமோ கலந்து கொள்ளதும். பூஜையில் இணைவோருக்கு இந்த நோய் பாதிக்காது. உங்களின் பூஜையை நான் ஏற்றுக்கொண்டேன்."
Lord Shiva said man needed to join forces with the Prapanjam and use it as a force field or shield and engage in cleansing it. How is that possible? Ramalinga Adigal says the same too. He says, 'Bring the Prapanjam within you. It shall come within your control. It shall come along with you." (பிரபஞ்சத்தை உள்ளுக்குள் செலுத்துங்கள். பிரபஞ்சம் உங்களுக்குக் கட்டுப் படும். துணை வரும்). Annie Besant in her talks on "The Laws of the Higher Life", the Theosophical Publishing House, 1903, says "nature is conquered through his obedience."
Lord Shiva explained further, "When engaged with the Prapanjam, the vibration that takes place in you shall become atoms that cleanse the Prapanjam. Use it as a force field or shield and engaged in cleansing the Prapanjam. When it's cleansed the world will be completely rid of the virus, though the virus will be around till that day (till that is achieved fully)."
So it was that we had to actively participate and do our part in cleansing the air and the Prapanjam. Lord Shiva told us that he too would join us in cleansing the Prapanjam. He asked that those who could join to carry out a homam and do it once a week. He said those who engage in this prayer shall be safe. He accepted Mahindren's Puja too. I was happy to receive messages from devotees of Agathiyar who took up the call by Lord Shiva to conduct the Homam in their homes. Suren, the blessed couple Sri Krishna, and Sri Dewi, and another blessed couple Balachander and Shanti took up the cue from Mahindran who had the thought of doing it in his home initially and that was endorsed by Shiva upon descending during the ritual. It is satisfying to learn that we too had a small role to play in praying for the pandemic to come to a close.
If Lord Shiva came to endorse through the act of Mahindren back then, the Prapanjam took a form in a vision to a devotee in the early morning hours today and gave a message to carry out a similar prayer and ritual. In the vision the devotee had approached Ma who sat with our kids and grandchildren attending to their needs joyously. The devotee put before Ma her feelings of sadness seeing the calamity and natural disasters taking place and the virus that we thought had subsided taking various new forms and threatening us again curtailing our freedom to move around freely again. Ma tells her to ask likeminded devotees who cared for the wellbeing of the world and others to carry out the homam and chant the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra and Dhavantri mantra just like Lord Shiva had directed us at the beginning of the pandemic. Ma seemed concerned with children though and asked that we take extra care of them making sure we give them nutritious food and milk with a pinch of turmeric. She asks that we fire the charcoal with dried cow dung. She asks to burn powdered dried neem leaves in this. If both Agathiyar and Ramalinga Adigal came to help us reach out to the Prapanjam in the past, today we are overjoyed that the Prapanjam has come to address us through this devotee.
When the pandemic stepped in and froze all the outdoor activities including puja at temples and charity that we were happily carrying out back then, we were left with home puja and yoga practices done on our own. But we are glad that the Siddhas had pushed us hard to learn both as today we are well equipped with both the knowledge and the skills in doing Siddha puja and doing yoga. Both these now have become tools in our hands. Lord Shiva in asking us to do these rituals ended the long gap of a year and a half of abstaining from rituals as directed by Agathiyar. But as they told us when the need arises, we could engage in rituals, we were summoned to bring back the rituals the times of Covid-19. Prapanjam now tells us the same that though she was pretty aware that we are engaged in going within having abstained from rituals, she requests us to take up arms to battle yet another round of danger.
We are glad that Tavayogi had initiated us to carry out homam in our homes. Although I reluctantly carried it out in the beginning for, I did not favor rituals, Agathiyar came later and pointed out that it was not for personal gains but for the wellbeing of the Prapanjam. Only then did I carry it out wholeheartedly. Agathiyar came later to tell me that he was the Prapanjam and that the Prapanjam was in him too.
Today I was overjoyed that Prapanjam that took the form of my wife in the devotee's vison had asked her to relay the message to me to get the ball rolling. Let us come together this Saturday at 8pm in lighting a homam, for those who are equipped with the tools to carry it out or reciting both these mantras. We shall engage with the Prapanjam, fortify ourselves and send back the unified force to the Prapanjam to ward off the dangers.
Our prayers shall be directed towards and for the betterment of the Prapanjam. Those who were shown the way to tap into the Prapanjam its pranic energy and shown the relevant techniques of pranayama to enhance it, shall induce the said mantras and energize it further, and return the renewed energy what has been provided by the Prapanjam back to it in the form of fire and smoke, cleansed and healed.