Velayutham Karthikeyan Aiya, who was the admin and author behind the blog "Siththan Arul", posted that the Siddhas had wished that whoever sought them for solutions to their problems and surrendered to them, shall be pardoned for their past deeds, however bad and evil they may be, and shall not be put through the trial and tribulations and made to face the consequences, but instead be saved. Agathiyar, who did not give up on his devotees, approached Lord Brahma and voiced their concern for humanity to him. Agathiyar humbly requests that Brahma change the karma of all those who came seeking him (Agathiyar) as he had given his word to them. He seeks Brahma's word of promise that he would not harm any of his devotees.
Brahma asked him,
"You are asking me to go easy on too many devotees. It would take no less than 10 years to seek out their Nadi or Olai Suvadi and make changes to their fate. If you keep on recommending that I save them by changing their fate, who is going to pay back for their deeds and karma? Do we not need to punish them for their karma?"
Agathiyar pleads with Brahma, telling him that he believes all should be saved and that their fate should be changed. He suggests that Brahma increase his workforce so that these changes could be hastened.
Finally, Brahma submits and replies that although he cannot stop the incident from happening, he can reduce the repercussions or effects as a result of that event. When Brahma granted the Siddhas this wish, the next instant the Siddhas wrote down: the reasons for each individual’s sufferings; listed out solutions and remedies; and showed ways and means to overcome or end the seeker's problems, sins, diseases, illnesses, and sufferings. These writings came to be known as the Nadi.
If we are used to finding easy ways to solve our problems, seeking mediums and middlemen, shamans, priests, and gurus, for immediate relief through dispersement of the sacred ash, miracle water, and baths, talismans, amulets, etc, coming to the Siddhas, though, they make us walk the talk. They send us on pilgrimages that help shed our karma. They have us place the efforts in lighting the sacrificial fire or Homam, and have us place all our worries in it for the fire to consume. They have us personally bathe the statues of Siddhas and deities to cool them down and appease them, in asking for their aid. Besides the rituals, they get us to the ground to carry out charity, which, besides helping to shed the karma of both parties, the giver and receiver on the other end, brings on love and compassion towards others, ridding us of our selfish outlook. They get us going on Yoga to help rebuild our declining state of health. There is no easy way to it. One has to place the efforts. We cannot buy our way out of our karma.
So too did my life take a turn, and I saw myself sitting before a Nadi reader in 2002. Agathiyar came into my life after I took up the call to see the Nadi and come to the worship of the Siddhas. Agathiyar in the Nadi spoke about karma too, and he gave me the remedies to soften their effects just as Brahma had promised. Knowing my past karma and carrying out the remedies given cleared the path for me to see the results of my worship and practices, and my efforts that I was otherwise deprived of earlier. Though this moment of exposure of my faults and flaws in my past life did not impact me back then, today I am thankful to Agathiyar for pleading to Lord Brahma for all of us. If Agathiyar, on his part, had helped me soften my karma by giving me the remedies and showing me the means and the ways, the method and the practices that were to come my way, helped me start a new journey. I began to rewrite my fate and chart a new destiny, with the Siddhas holding the pen and my hand.
Agathiyar had me perform a puja known as Siddharku Thanam or a ritual to show my appreciation and thanks-giving to the Siddhas, by making certain offerings, which I did. Here, then, I learned to carry out the Siddha puja for the very first time when Nadi guru Senthilkumar led me in reciting the names of the Siddhas. I took back the tools and the method and began to continue the worship of the Siddhas in my home, as Agathiyar had asked me to in the Nadi.
Eight years later, pleased with my devotion towards him, he came into my home as a bronze statue. And three years later, my home became his Agathiyar Vanam (AVM) with the arrival of youths whom he sent to watch and participate in my home puja. Then, in 2018, Lord Muruga, in a Nadi reading, tells me that my home was his temple. I am humbled and grateful for this.
Just as my home transformed from that of a family man into a temple, the Siddhas began to work on my inner transformation. After Lord Siva came in a dream and had me take a break from puja and bakti as in Sariyai, for some 14 years, leaving me blank and empty of all rituals and readings, after having me let go of my hold on Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal even before the seed could sprout, and after returning naked from my visit to Kallar ashram and travels with Tavayogi as directed by Agathiyar in 2005, where Tavayogi had me drop my hold on the Rudraksa bead even before the thought sproated in me, and had me shed the Navarathnam ring and Rasami bead that I had on me, Agathiyar had Tavayogi show me and several others certain Yoga techniques which I put into practice on his next visit to Malaysia in 2007. If initially I saw a surge of Prana come within, I had to endure an excruciating pain in the lower back for some 2 1/2 years between 2010 and 2012. I never realized until Agathiyar addressed the issue in the Nadi, telling me that the practice had awakened the Muladhara chakra in me. With his grace, the knot gave way as I positioned myself to repeat the exercises before my physiotherapist at the government clinic in 2012. In 2022, Agathiyar came to release the pent-up energy that had ponded at Svadishtana. It saw its way up the higher chakras in days, flowering at the Sahasrara eventually.
If, after coming to hold their hands, my life was not in my hands but theirs, carrying out their bidding and tasks given, to their hearts' joy and fulfillment, the Siddhas have since then handed the key to me. After taking charge of me, they have now handed over the right to express myself and do as I wish. I am grateful to them for their faith and belief in me. I am grateful for their grace, love, and compassion. I shall try to live up to their expectations. I shall never let them down, as Agathiyar once told me to walk tall, for only then can he walk tall too.