Saturday, 8 December 2018

MIRACLES, MIRACLES & MORE MIRACLES

I came back from my maiden pilgrimage to India, mooted by Agathiyar in my very first Nadi reading to perform remedies in several temples, very elevated and in a state of bliss. Then he asked me to come to the worship of Siddhas too, opening a whole new mysterious world and realm that has been in existence since time immemorial that we just had not seen till then. He promised to let me have a peek into their space by delivering miracles during my travels. That is just what he did. Deliver Miracles!

I came back and documented my journey and the miracles that took place on my website Indian Heartbeat. I shifted to blogging later but continued to post the miracles that took place just as Agathiyar had revealed would continue in my home ground.

https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/09/miracles.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/09/miracles-2.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-miraculous-journey.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2018/10/faith-belief-brings-forth-miracles.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2018/10/journeying-with-agathiyar-miracles-do.html

The first post that went up on 28th July 2013 https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/07/welcome-to-sidha-heartbeat-home-of.html was about the numerous spectacles Agathiyar did to bring us to his fold.
Here we will showcase all about the ever evasive, mysterious and incomprehensible higher intelligence known as Siddhas in the hope that along the way we get to comprehend their workings too. Let me start this blog by posting several photographs taken of the miracles performed by the Siddhas. Come join me and step into the mysterious and mystical world of the Siddhas.
After 1822 posts we can safely vouch that miracles do take place if you chose to see it. The mystical realm of the Siddhas and their mysterious workings has still remained a mystery and puzzle to us but they never fail to amaze us.

How do you explain miracles? What is a miracle? 

It is defined as,
An extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency. Such an event may be attributed to a supernatural being (especially a deity), magic, a miracle worker, a saint, or a religious leader.
Informally, the word miracle is often used to characterize any beneficial event that is statistically unlikely but not contrary to the laws of nature, such as surviving a natural disaster, or simply a "wonderful" occurrence, regardless of likelihood, such as a birth. Other such miracles might be: survival of an illness diagnosed as terminal, escaping a life-threatening situation or 'beating the odds'. Some coincidences may be seen as miracles.
A true miracle would, by definition, be a non-natural phenomenon, leading many rational and scientific thinkers to dismiss them as physically impossible (that is, requiring violation of established laws of physics within their domain of validity) or impossible to confirm by their nature (because all possible physical mechanisms can never be ruled out). Theologians typically say that, with divine providence, God regularly works through nature yet, as a creator, is free to work without, above, or against it as well.
Pandit Gopi Krishna has made an observation in his book, "Kundalini - Path to Higher Consciousness", Orient Paperbacks, 1976, and explains the reason too.
The curative and other powers exercised by prophets, seers, mystics and saints never went beyond the sphere of individual application and it was left for men of genius who brought vision to the aid of intellect to devise universally efficacious remedies for scourges like smallpox and to make other discoveries in the physical realm, a task which was neither accomplished by nor fell in the province of prophets and visionaries. (Pg 181)
Just as the Siddhas ventured to find a solution to overcome death, just as Buddha ventured out of his palace to seek the reasons for sufferings, many good souls and as Gopi says, men of genius, sacrificed their life to find ways and means to bring cheer into the lives of others through their knowledge, reasoning, findings, discoveries, experience and expertise in their own fields. These souls will be seen as divine and seen as god walking the earth by the people who benefited from their knowledge and wisdom.

When my daughter broke her tibia and fibula bones in her leg after a car rammed into her while riding pillion, the doctor at the emergency ward suggested cast immobilization where they wrap her leg in a cast and let nature heal her in due course which he said given her age, should be in three months.
A plaster or fiberglass cast is the most common type of fracture treatment, because most broken bones can heal successfully once they have been re-positioned and a cast has been applied to keep the broken ends in proper position while they heal. Source: https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases--conditions/fractures-broken-bones/
But due to our insistence that she needed to attend and complete her internship the doctor agreed to do external fixation so that she could begin walking sooner than the three months required if she was in cast.
In this type of operation, metal pins or screws are placed into the broken bone above and below the fracture site. The pins or screws are connected to a metal bar outside the skin. This device is a stabilizing frame that holds the bones in the proper position while they heal. Source: https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases--conditions/fractures-broken-bones/
The next day at the wards a senior doctor who came on his rounds took us to task for requesting the procedure and reverted the decision to allow her to heal naturally. Good counsel and sound advice prevailed that day. There was a choice if I wanted the traditional plaster cast which was heavy or thanks to technology and new findings, the lighter fiberglass material. I chose the fiberglass cast.

But after four months there was yet no new bone growth as unfortunately she fell in the category of the five percent of patients where there is non union.

The doctor now had to make the decision to perform Open Reduction and Internal Fixation. He showed and briefed us on the procedure.
During this operation, the bone fragments are first re-positioned in their normal alignment, and then held together with special screws or by attaching metal plates to the outer surface of the bone. 
Just as we thought that we had no other option but to operate on her and place a titanium plate, something we prayed we did not want to see happen, the doctor brings up another option. "Would you like to try something else but it will cost you?", he asked. It was a simple procedure where "autologous platelet-rich-plasma from a small sample of her blood is induced into her the point of injury, prompting healing effects caused by growth factors released from the platelets." We were told that it had been tried out successfully in the United States for patients who came in with sport injuries. This news brought us joy and hope. The doctor was willing to do the procedure but we have to pay to have the machine that segregates and separates the components of blood brought in. We took up this option, happy that she would not have to undergo surgery.

After the first injection, miraculously there was new bone growth as the doctor showed and explained to us from her x-ray. It brought us extreme joy. After the third injection spread our a few days, there was a remarkable amount of new growth. This brought further joy. She was cast and sent home to recover. After nine months since she met with the accident, she could walk as usual and went back to complete her internship.

The doctors did their part with utmost dedication, treating her carefully, trying to avoid an operation at all cost, preferring to wait for mother nature to work her wonders. But when there was no positive development, they began to take other appropriate measures and options. 

We on our part prayed that she should respond well to the treatment and that she should begin to walk without any form of deformity in her legs. My daughter began writing Dhanvantari's mantra in a note daily. An aunt of hers brought back the sacred prasad, sesame oil used during libation or abhisegam on Lord Dhanvantri from his temple in Chennai, to be applied externally. Agathiyar too assured us in the Nadi that he was there for her and had asked us to refrain from being tempted to seek other forms of alternative treatment, but rather to continue treatment in the government hospital. He assured us that there would not be any major surgery but instead only a minor procedure.

Agathiyar through the right people advised us rightly and with the aid of modern medical discoveries and procedures performed a miracle.  Our prayers were answered. We are indebted to the doctors who spend their live time in dedicating their heart and soul trying their best to save the thousands of patients who end up sick or immobilized.

To all those who brought relief and joy to others through their innovations and discoveries, bringing technology and their ideas together to come up with means of relieving the pain and suffering of others, to all those who spent their lifetime researching and finding new ways and approaches to heal the sick, we thank them from the bottom of our heart.

If that was a medical miracle, how do we explain Agathiyar opening eyes in his granite stone at Agasthiyampalli and Papanasam? He did these to convince me to stay on his path. Sincere devotion over the years made him open his eyes again in his bronze statue at AVM. The strength of devotion brought Agathiyar to open his eyes at AVM creating another devotional miracle.

Another miracle was when Agathiyar read the Nadi for my wife without the need of giving the thumb print and other birth details to locate her Nadi. Agathiyar blessed her with a reading! That day I found out that exceptions are made if the divine favors us. She has been consistently preparing for the weekly Thursday prayers, conducting and cleaning up after that since Agathiyar came as the bronze statue in 2010. Besides that prayers are also done on Pornami, Amavasai and other auspicious days for the entire pantheon of deities. Off course the annual Guru Puja for Agathiyar is held too in a big way.

Agathiyar created further spectacles that mesmerized us: The column of light that followed Jnana Jhotiamma at Kalyana Theertam; Lord Muruga coming as a child and healing her aching feet as she climbed down his hill at Palani; the stories we heard of how Lord Muruga used to come and tease Krishnaveni Amma at Kalyana Theertam; how Tavayogi received a piece of bread at Sathuragiri from a stranger that revived him and made it possible for him to continue his climb; how food was brought to Tavayogi who was dying of hunger pangs by a couple during his days of wandering; and how Anjaneya and Anjalai came along and led Asokhan who had lost his way, to complete his journey in the Sabari hills.

https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-miracle-at-nattadreeswarar-temple.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/11/miracles-at-tiruvannamalai.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/11/more-miracles.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2014/04/miracle-at-kallar-ashram.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2017/07/amazing-mysteries-in-life.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2017/07/amazing-mysteries-in-life_1.html

The numerous tales and miracles that the late Hanumathdasan shared in magazines, and published as the "Nadi Sollum Kathaigal" and later adapted for the blog Siththan Arul by Velayudham Karthigeyan Aiya were all eye openers to the existence of Siddhas and their abilities and capabilities and the wide possibilities that were out there which could bring change to one's life.

https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/08/tales-from-jeeva-nadi-this-series-of.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/08/further-revelations-from-siththan-arul.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/08/further-revelations-from-siththan-arul_11.html
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2013/08/more-revelations-from-siththan-arul.html

And of course the greatest miracle is that of birth.
https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-miracle-of-birth.html
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