SOLLADI SIVA SAKTHI

I was going through the Nadi readings of mine when I decided to merge all 53 readings. It came up to 10 hours of discourse by Agathiyar. If others had been blessed to stay at the feet of their gurus in physical form, and listen to them speak, I am blessed to have Agathiyar speak to me through the medium of Nadi. And so have all of us at AVM.

Going through these amazing medium of communication between the divine and the mortals, I realized that all that Agathiyar spoke about had materialized todate. Some of the events that he mentioned were changed by him for reasons only known to him. Those events that did not take place was solely because of my decision in not wanting to go along with it. I understood we always had a choice in all things. 

If you had seen the Tamil movie 12B several years back you would understand this. The story revolves around a young man who misses the bus one day. A sequence of events follows accordingly. The director then takes us through another story that runs parallel where he manages to board the bus and another chain of events takes place. Here we are shown two possibilities. Similarly in life we have so many possibilities out there waiting to happen.

It is a matter of choice, karma and destiny all tied together and weaved to form the fabric of life. Some are colorful with lots of color, colorful events thrown in as bonuses while in others life it is in shades of grey and dullness, with sorrow and pain accompanying.

Our choices are usually based on our past experiences. For a child he would look towards an elder to help him/ her decide hence shifting the responsibility and karma to the elders. Have no regret for how your life is moving on now, for it was your choice all along the way, driven by karma, the silent hand.

It is said that we as souls decided to take birth in a nation and a family and to certain parents so that we could accomplish what we came for in the best possible way. We bring along other souls as company in the form of a spouse, siblings, friends, and colleagues etc to help accomplish our agenda on the face of the earth. The divine might want to have a hand in molding us too and he comes as a master, guru or saint. The whole blueprint is laid out and all plots and sub plots and details gone through and discussed thoroughly among these souls. And with the consent of all, we begin our journey to the physical plane to give shape and form and work out this divine play.

It is also said that all discoveries are made in this plane of souls before the idea even strikes us on the physical plane. 

Then we took a certain gender, color, and built depending on our past karma. Then again language and the mother tongue and later religion was introduced to us. We grow up learning many things in life experiencing them and falling back on these experiences later in helping us make wise decisions.

Then I begin to have a question too. If the reason we are born is because of the past karmas and if we are here to work out these karmas, now when and how did this cycle start? Where was I before my very first birth on this physical plane and what karma did I do then to deserve a birth in the very first place?

Isaignani Illaiyaraja wrote and composed a song where he questions if he had a desire sprout in him while living in Sathya Loka that led to him taking a birth in this world?

Watching the old movies based on Puranas, we are shown that desires and wants; and curses and its replications warrant a birth on the physical plane, where even the Gods take a human birth to either fulfill their desires or seek reprieve for their wrongdoings.

I am watching my grandchild grow. She breaks into a smile often and within seconds it turns into a cry. My mother would tell us that Lord Brahma was revealing and running through her life story and showing the events and happenings she would face when she grows up. When the happy moments are related, she laughs; she cries when she is told of sad happenings. This phenomena is noticeable in children of all races throughout the world. So I have a question. In what language does Lord Brahma speak to them? Language is introduced by the parents only later as he/ she learns to pick it up, listening to them. Since I do not have answers to these questions, I am asking my grandchild to share this Brahma Ragasiyam or Brahma's Secret with me before the secret door at the crown of her head through which these messages we are told comes in, is closed.

We are told that our life story will be aired to us again once we depart this physical body. We will once again watch for ourselves the extend of damage or good we have done during the birth, one that is very rare to come by according to the saints. This time, we are told, Chitragupta who keeps track of all our worldly accounts, will run through the events with us. The next world and birth, we are told, will depend and be determined from this review of our life.  

Lately a friend asked me what happens to the Atma or soul on our death and where does it go to? I told her I do not know. In fact I have yet to answer a question thrown to me several years ago by a colleague. He had asked me where does the soul reside? He threw the question most likely to shut me up since I spoke so much on spiritualism then till I must have bored him. I did shut up after that. While many masters and pundits have tried to indicate the spot where the soul resides, Agathiyar says we cannot allocate nor point our finger to any particular place where the soul resides.

Then there is the question as to when the soul comes into this being to stay and take on the experiences? Many have tried to answer these pertinent questions but it is still all a mystery for there is no definitive answers.

I soon began to understand, the key word here is experience. We are here for an experience. While some say we are here to evolve spiritually or to continue on a journey of spiritual discovery from where we left, a journey that ended abruptly in the last birth; others say that it is the spirit that is having a worldly experience.

I understood from Isaikavi Ramanan Aiya's talks that we had fallen from grace in spiritualism. We were all once living with the wise where tapas or austerities was the way of life. This was the age of the wise Rishis who had access to the Gods, and their Worlds and all their mystical knowledge. The Holy Scriptures were tapped into and given to us by the Rishis through their tapas. I remember my mother tell me that the Gods once walked this earth. When they left, they made brief visitations to a selected few homes. The household animals who could sense and see their movements would disclose these visitations to their owners, hence their ability to speak to humans was withdrawn.

Next the Vedas were given to us as references and guides for us. Later Yoga and its means were given to keep us hale, healthy and be in touch with the Gods. Coming to this age, as we could not comply with the high standards required of us in pursuing the way of Yoga, we were then given the easiest means to keep abreast with God, that is worship in the temples.

Now we have started our journey tracing the path back to the kingdom of God, rediscovering the magnificence and majesty of a past civilization, stopping to admire in amazement and awe the lost kingdom of our forefathers and the high standard of virtues and practices upheld during that time, from whence we had slipped and fell. It is indeed God's leela or Divine game play; and for us a game of snake and ladder.

When the late Hanumathdasan Aiya voiced out that it was rather difficult to read and comprehend Agathiyar's writings in the Jeeva Nadi in his possession due to the language used and spoken by Agathiyar, he asked that Agathiyar relay it in the language used in present times. Agathiyar, although voiced concern that Hanumathdasan Aiya was asking him to bring his standard down, but out of compassion for the present generation agreed to come down to the level of understanding of the layman, giving him the revelation in his colloquial language. Hanumathdasan Aiya reveals in his collection of stories based on the Nadi and published as "Nadi Sollum Kathaigal", that Agathiyar continued to appear in the Jeeva Nadi in simple spoken Tamil of the day, after that request was put to him. In another episode, Hanumathdasan Aiya mentions that Agathiyar made an exception when he asked him to pass the Nadi to the seeker, a Malaysian Tamil who came for a reading. The reading appeared in the Malay language which the Malaysian read and understood for himself!

Although I understand Agathiyar telling us to refrain from questioning the source (Rishimulam Nadhimulam), but as Supramanya Bharathi confronted Goddess Shiva Sakthi, that it was she who gave him the sharp intellect to question and investigate everything, hence we cannot be blamed for delving into and seeking answers to these mysteries, wonders and miracles in life.