Sunday, 23 February 2020

CONVERSATIONS WITH AGATHIYAR 4

If Tavayogi came to know about his past, being a regular patron of the Nadi, later he knew them through his meditation. Agathiyar came to him in the form of light, and he knew many secrets that very rarely would he share, giving us the reason that we should not beat one's drum in public or speak about our achievements, which I guess eventually leads to boosting one's ego and provides an avenue to create a following.

We too learned from the Nadi revelations, having being introduced to a Nadi reader by him, where Agathiyar without fail furnished us the mysteries of life and the Siddhas. I had been blessed with 61 such readings. These days they come through others, sitting with us to share their thoughts, advice and bless us. For instance, Ramalinga Adigal came to guide us on during the recent Maha Shivaratri which we observed too. He taught us a pranayama technique and told us to keep our spine erect and helped and guided us to bring the consciousness within. Shortly after he left Agathiyar came to bless us and told us to continue the abhisegam, pranayama and asana lessons and puja that we had lined up for after 12 midnight. We can never repay the kindness of our gurus in lending us a hand when the need arises.

At https://isha.sadhguru.org/mahashivratri/significance-of-mahashivratri/ we are enlightened about the significance of Maha Shivaratri.
On this night, the northern hemisphere of the planet is positioned in such a way that there is a natural upsurge of energy in a human being. This is a day when nature is pushing one towards one’s spiritual peak. It is to make use of this, that in this tradition, we established a certain festival which is nightlong. To allow this natural upsurge of energies to find their way,one of the fundamentals of this nightlong festival is to ensure that you remain awake with your spine vertical throughout the night.
I take pride to talk about this, not with the intention to implicate we are the chosen ones but by sharing, bring others too to the fold where they can come to know about themselves, their mission, and about their souls. To those who are skeptical as to, if and how these are all possible, they would have to take the journey just as we did. Erai can only be known through experience. No amount of reading or listening shall replace the experience, though reading and listening to another's experience can bring us to want to start the journey or to know more. So when one doctor wanted to put me on the O.T and dissect my experiences, I told him not to use me as a laboratory specimen but to come to the path and follow whatever regime given to us and told to do. He can then know for himself. He never came. As Anthony Moore wrote in his blog https://medium.com/the-mission/the-truth-is-it-doesnt-matter-how-many-self-help-articles-you-read-2b7b6fac3bb1,
The truth is, it doesn’t matter: how many self-help books you read. how many TedTalks you watch. if you hire a life coach. how many online courses you buy.
The one ingredient that matters…the only factor with enough substance to actually make a lasting change…Is a firm, unbreakable decision.
He quotes - Jim Collins, from Good to Great, “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.”

When Lord Muruga told me that I shall do things differently I went back to the drawing board and analyzed what were those. Today I can safely say that the differences were in the understanding and undertaking of his teachings and tasks given respectively.