THE TRANSFORMATION 1

Ma came one day during puja and told us that the Siddha path was one of learning lessons and gaining experience that transforms into jnana or wisdom. Taking directives from Agathiyar and the Siddhas all this while we were surprised when Ma told us that the Siddha path was one of learning or படிப்பினை (and henceforth gaining experience). This learning (and the relative experience gained from it) will become jnana or knowledge to others she said. Making mistakes is a learning process she added, telling us it was fine to make mistakes and that it was part of the process. She asks us to share the experience.

Mahindran understood Ma's message pretty well and conveyed it to us in his own words.

Nambikai / Gnanam / Anbu / Anubavam. All this 4 are the key point which we should see... Nambikai & Anbu on Erai.... Will give us Gnanam... Gnanam will give us Anubavam.... Anubavam become lesson... Lesson give us value to our birth....

From http://agatthiyarjnanam.blogspot.com/2014/01/agatthiyar-meijnana-kaviyam-1.html, we learn the secret to creation as revealed by Agathiyar.

When the completely unmanifested Divine took up a manifested form, due to the limitations it imposed on itself, some contradictions emerged.  The Divine corrected these mistakes by providing its experience.  

She writes further, confirming what was told to us too.

Siddha marga is an experiential path, not a dry jnana marga.  It is a path where experience and knowledge go together.  Experience is always correct.  When one tries to verbalize an experiences mistakes and shortcomings occur.  These mistakes can be corrected only by re-experience the original experience.  This is possible only by Divine grace.  Hence, Agatthiyar says that the Divine corrected the sastra. Also, the various incarnations of the Divine are said to occur to correct the mistakes that had crept in the scriptures and in their practices.  Siva's Divine play or Tiruvilaiadal are episodes that occurred for this purpose.

Agathiyar in my very first Nadi reading told me about my faults and the experiences I have had but assured me that it was fine and that it was all his doing too, and that I needed the experience. That was reassuring. But he sent me off to do my parikara or remedies. There was no escape from that though. He then had through numerous Aasi Nadi readings encouraged me to continue to write. The day I decide to call it a day and sign off, I shall receive a mail or message from readers thanking me for the post and asking me to write further and to share these experiences. Then Aiya came and specifically spoke on this blog and my writings. He asked to continue to write and not be confused as to who was behind these penning. He cleared the air that he was in my thoughts and was penning the posts and its contents. What a relief it was. After penning the thoughts I always thank him for a very well written post, going back to read it again and again, admiring his mastery of the language and taking in the gist and essence of what was written, for it was all new to me too for I am learning together with the readers of this blog many new things said and revealed in these pages.

Prof Alan Hugenot says that "Experience is an in-forming of consciousness. We are having a conscious experience that is real." For those critics who think its hallucination, Hugenot now believes that consciousness makes the brain and not the other way around as understood earlier.  Now we can understand pretty well how and why the Deities, Siddhas, and Angels chose to come through mediums to relay messages, heal or work their miracles. To my surprise the divine energy traversed through me too and spoke, bringing messages to those who sought answers or words of comfort. I used to be doubting the occurrences if it was I who was cooking up things or it was genuinely another entity. It was exactly as how Prof Alan equates this phenomenon to that of having two personalities, which he did question himself too.

"..its almost as if like a different person. If I shut the "professor" down, I become the medium."

Every now and then I sit with them and voice out my worry that it should never be me "cold reading" as Prof Alan terms it and misleading these wonderful souls into believing that the divine was addressing them. Then they tell me over and over again that it was them. I am truly relieved. 

When I was desperately trying to find the reasons, answers and solutions to numerous disturbing events happening around us in the spiritual circle and arena, in society and the world around us, Agathiyar comes to console me, "உன் மனம் நான் அறிவேன்", akin to Natarajan or popularly known as Sadhu Om's petition to his guru Ramana, "நின் அருள் சம்மதமாய், எது நேர்ந்திடுமோ அதெல்லாம், என் மனப்பூரணமாய் ஏற்றின்புரவே அருள்வாய்...  என்னினும் என் பொருட்டாய்க் கவலை ஏற்பவன் நீ யல்லவோ.. நான் துன்புற நீ சகியாய்.. ஏன் இனிமேற் கவலைப் படுவேன் குருவே ரமணா "

Having come to surrender to Agathiyar, he began to chart both the external journey and internal too, bringing us within henceforth. Bringing us on his path, after we took up his call to join his path, Agathiyar has carefully charted the ways and means for us to tread the path, leaving a milestone at every mile of our journey, waiting there for us to catch up on him and encouraging and continuing us on yet another phase of the journey. If earlier Agathiyar, walked us through Sariyai, Kriyai, Yogam, and Jnanam, he has had expressed his wishes for us to at least achieve the state of a Jeevan Mukta, now he brings me back in time to the day I met my guru Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal in Malaysia and received Agathiyar's first Teecha or Diksha mantra. Surprisingly he gets me to adopt it as a practice once more. "This mantra shall bring the desired transformation in one", he says, "working internally to bring changes in one's physical body too, detailing it as, working from Asudha Deham to Sudha Deham and moving on to Pranava Deham and Oli Deham." He wishes us too to go through this transformation that had had taken place in many saints of the past. How compassionate of him to desire that we too should relive these transformations. As Supramania Swami once told me that all our efforts shall not go to waste, and Tavayogi who cheerfully told me that we shall come back and work on it, and as mentioned above that "The Divine corrected these mistakes by providing its experience" and "These mistakes can be corrected only by re-experience the original experience", today I understand that we have come to achieve what we have failed earlier. I suppose our bid to gain immortality failed in the past, hence the reason to continue a fresh attempt at it again in this birth. Of course, it is only possible with by Divine grace.

From "Secrets of the Siddhas - Health, Longevity and Enlightenment" post on fb, Thiru R. Kuppusamy explains Ramalinga Adigal's view of Immortality.

Vallalar knew what the Body of the Future Man would be like. He said this impure body with all its excretions through the nine apertures in the body would be transformed into a pure body (Sudha Deham) with no waste matter at all. Instead the pure body will be producing its own food called nectar. It will not rely upon external food or atmospheric air for its breath or on books for its knowledge. This pure body can last for hundreds of thousands of years in an uncorrupt manner. This pure body belongs to a Siddha. But this is not the final body. This pure body has to be transformed into a lighter body. It is also called Space Body or Pranava Body or Omkara Body. This body belongs to the Gods and Goddesses. It is also called a Mantric Body or a Sound Body. It can be seen and heard but not touched, for it has no physical substance. It can be sensed and perceived only by the mind’s eye. This Omkara body can last for millions of years but even this is not the final body. This too could meet with death. The deathless body belongs to God alone. It is the purest of the Pure Body. It is made up of pure light - not a physical light but a light emanating from total compassion or grace towards all beings in creation. This body is indestructible. The aim of Suddha Sanmarga of Vallalar is to attain this everlasting body of compassion.

From https://pranashakty.org/jothi/suddha-deham/ we are enlightened further on the sequence in the changes of the physical state of Ramalinga Adigal upon undertaking the worship of the divine.

The Jothi manifests before the Suddha Deham is manifested. It manifests like a rising sun, chakra by chakra, centre by centre. As it rises the “Rod of Light” is established. This takes the consciousness into the Higher Realms, above the veils. The Rod of Light securely anchors the Light into the Soul and eventually will join up with the Suddha Deham.

The Suddha Deham at first appears as a garment of light. It sits around the body and its etheric sheaths. It manifests through the different realms/bodies, i.e. emotional, astral, mental and spiritual. The body appears to become translucent and has a soft glow to it – once it has manifested in the physical.

Once you have acquired the Suddha deham, it takes faith and commitment to manifest it. It is to align the mind with the Higher Mind. It is to keep the mind under the authority of the Higher Mind at all times. It contains Divine Thought. It is Divine Mind. It is a manifestation of Pure Light on the physical material world. It does not ‘absorb’ the physical body, it overshadows it – it replaces the physical body and it becomes a vehicle of your Godself. It follows on the purification of all identification with the body as a separate entity.

The light body (or Oli Deham) is like a protective sheath around the physical body. Manifestation of the light body into the physical goes through a process until it penetrates the physical body.  It penetrates the physical body into the organs, tissue and blood. It forms a golden body around all 5 bodies. It heals the etheric body and it restores the blueprint of the body. It brings great peace and serenity. Once the light body has manifested it starts a process of turning all the sheaths and eventually the physical body into light.

The physical body will acquire a natural fragrance of flowers. This body can move through walls. You can live in this body without eating food. The physical becomes almost translucent and the light is visible through the skin. Swamiji’s physical body had become tenuous and translucent. Disciples have recorded that it cast no distinct shadow. It is said that several attempts were made to photograph him. But since light passed through his body no clear image could be obtained. What could be seen were only his clothing and a very misty vision of his face and limbs. And from such a translucent body made so by pure living, dematerialization was but a few steps away.