Agathiyar had the phases outlined clearly, not in a text or through sitting through discourses. He only made it known to those who persevered in walking the path.
To know thy purpose.
To know him.
To know the Prapanjam.
To know that we are one.
To know thy Atma, soul, or self.
And to know Sivam.
This was not an evolution or transformation from one phase to another; it was a revelation that came by in shedding the veils that covered the guru within, the soul.
If we thought that we came here to discover our purpose, I have come to realize that the purpose was determined by each soul even before taking birth, and what we are doing is already living it.
Then the Siddha comes along, showing us a guru in physical form, as Agathiyar did through my Nadi reading, or it could be the other way, too, where the guru shows us the Siddhas, as Tavayogi showed me to Agathiyar. Just as a software patch is routinely released by developers to update, fix, or improve a program, the Siddhas come by bringing on an upgrade, leading to a new destiny, and new features to the fate that we had originally purchased, signed up for, and acquired at birth.
We learn from Disney's "Encanto" that when Mirabel questions Bruno, who sees visions, about his vision of the Casita collapsing, Bruno explains that the future isn't a fixed destiny, but that the future is uncertain, that there is no one answer, no clear fate, like the future is undecided.
"But the vision was different. It... it would change, and there was no one answer. No clear fate. Like your future was undecided..."
He who lets us explore our true self or being is indeed the true guru. Tavayogi and Agathiyar were such a guru, never feeding us from a silver spoon nor teaching us by holding discourses or online classes. Tavayogi showed us the path and the way, and had us tread on it, walking along with us and bringing us to learn how to navigate the tough terrain that we occasionally encountered. Agathiyar came later to either endorse our learning and experiences, and many a time, helped me out of the sufferings and pain that resulted from the opening of the Muladhara that came through the Yoga practice that he had gifted me through Tavayogi. Both Tavayogi at the very beginning and Agathiyar towards the end would knock some sense into our otherwise delusional perception and understanding of, not the material world, but surprisingly, our understanding of the spiritual field and terrain, equally clouded by Maya.
They come by to reveal that we, as the Atma or JeevAtma, are a part of the larger Atma, ParamAtma, or Param, and that we join hands with the Param in bringing about creation, sustainance and destruction that is seen all around us. We are powerful tools of God, a manifestation of the creative force that is all around us.
Once we come to acknowledge their presence and surrender to the divine, they bring us to know our soul or Atma, our individual soul that previously went into hiding after orchestrating our conception to childhood.
Henceforth, the soul comes to take the lead, taking over from our ego, which once reigned.
I guess in asking me to come out of my cocoon and take up my purpose as revealed, for Agathiyar had to prepare me to fit the role of a Spiritual Catalyst or a Catalytic Spiritual Teacher that was revealed through a reading, of the "Spiritual Numerology of Moses," or better known as the "Soul Contract Reading" by Roshan, only in recent times, and which Agathiyar came to endorse later, I have unknowingly lived through my purpose.
Just as the Pulligal or Lonchura Punctulata, or commonly known as Pipit, which surprisingly I came to meet residing on the branches of a tree at my home garden after I returned home, the very day Agathiyar told me to feed them in my Nadi reading, suddenly left mysteriously after a long time, which I guess had served their purpose, I too am waiting for the day of departure, for I feel my purpose is done here. If I were to remain longer, I fear that I might err and create fresh Karma that shall bring on another birth. Or the gods might give me another birth as a reward for the good that I might continue to do further.
Life happens to be like a game of Snakes and Ladders. All the possibilities are there, and anything can happen anytime. One moment we rejoice, the next we sulk. We are already living our purpose in coming, not that we have to only discover it here. And so it is all his design and play, or Lila. We are only living our roles. What has to happen has to happen. Even the well-learned, most religious, most spiritual, have succumbed to illness and died. We eventually learn that nature is in control and learn to respect nature and its dictates.
The reason we are here is to learn to let go rather than latch on to things. Agathiyar had me let go of everything, rituals and charity, the following, and the authority and respect that came with it, and every addiction, even to him. Only then could we become one, the Yegan, he reminded me.
We are here to learn acceptance. Acceptance brings inward peace and harmony. We then become Sivam, the state on the last rung of the ladder, which Agathiyar spoke about attaining.
At 3.26am, a friend from the UK sent me the following, which sums it all up beautifully.
