Thursday 27 February 2020

CONVERSATIONS WITH AGATHIYAR - THE REAL JOURNEY BEGINS

The line that Tavayogi and Gowri Arumugam wrote for the title song of Raagawave Production's Audio Cd album Agathiyar Geetham, "Yaarappa Nee Konjam Sollappa" comes to our lips when we recall the many amazing and astonishing miracles he performs. We are constantly asking him, "Who are you, please do tell us" for he keeps on dishing miracles upon miracles including bringing a fresh understanding of things.



When I made my maiden journey to India to carry out my parikaram or remedies meted out by him in the Nadi, he came mysteriously in several places to bless me, without any prior notice. When on my second pilgrimage this time with Tavayogi, he came again to perform miracles this time giving me prior notice through the Nadi. He added that after I returned home to Malaysia, the miracles shall continue. Indeed they have.

These days they come in a person to deliver their thoughts. Each day is a special day where we have a story to tell.

We do not deserve his grace in the very first place but he comes to us as a loving father, a loving mother, a loving guru and at times a stern one too. He comes as a companion too. We were never interested to research the medium through whom they came. Neither did we venture to know the what, how and why he came. We were only interested in his message. We adopted his message, advice, and guidance and executed them to the best of our ability. When we slipped or slackened behind, he comes to wake us up to the tasks given, with stern words. As the honeymoon years were over he means business these days. He has shunned the holidaymakers and is seen to be working on a small number of dedicated workers. We are blessed to be among them. 

After the demise of my two wonderful gurus, Agathiyar has come personally to guide us on. His entourage of Siddhas come too. He brings the Gods and Goddesses. But sadly we have yet to lay our eyes on them. We sense their presence though. We see miracles performed. They speak through others. Already this is all too much to absorb. When Dr. Nanjan, a veterinarian from Ooty who accompanied Tavayogi to Malaysia many years back told me of his blessed moment of seeing Agathiyar arise, tie his long hair and disappear from the prayer room of an elderly couple, I could not believe my ears as he could not believe his eyes too. Could that be possible I asked myself? Then Jnana Jhotiamma tells me she saw him at my home during her visit in 2013. This amazed us further as we have never seen him till this day. We were happy for her. Several years back, a friend who drives the Grab pickup service picked up a passenger, an Australian lady of Chinese origin, who was attending a seminar in Malaysia. As the conversation moved on to the Siddhas and as she was keen to visit AVM after my friend mentioned my place, he asks permission to bring her over. She came out of my prayer room in tears mentioning she saw Agathiyar standing ceiling height! We were happy for her too.

What we saw in the Bakti movies we are seeing happen around us. Watching the Chinese movie Shaolin made us realize many pertinent points that we could connect to. If the master taught his Shaolin students the skills as in kungfu he taught his cook jnana or internal wisdom.  He was to bring the seed over to new territories when his monastery falls into the hands of feuding warlords and is destroyed to the ground. Just as the abbot asks the cook which was more valuable, the gold or mud, between the students and the cook, the cook is a valuable asset to any organization, for he feeds the students who turn up very very hungry after a grueling day of training, from 9am to 9pm. He feeds the master who dispenses the skills and the teachings too. Hence the reason Ramalinga Adigal told my wife henceforth she need not engage in any further form of ritual, practice, or meditation but to just feed all devotees at AVM.



As Tavayogi told me that we should not run to Agathiyar for every minute thing, but rather use our brain or arivu to discern and act accordingly, in the movie Messiah, the messenger of God tells the minister its time to go, leave the Church and the town, the minister asks, "Go? Wait. Go where?" The Messiah gives him a piece of his mind, that is very relevant to us too.

"What is your purpose? Why did God give you this life to live now? God is speaking to all of us, Felix. Let him speak to you. You decide where we go." Very often we want God to make decisions on our behalf so that we can fall back on him in the event things go wrong or turn to him for support or a way out. The minister leads his family and all who have gathered at the Church grounds not knowing where to head, looking for signs from the Messiah. Finally, they end up at Washington Dc where then the Messiah performs the miracle, the feat of walking on water. I understood that God waits for us to lay the groundwork before he steps in or makes his appearance. We need to prepare for his arrival both physically and mentally before he comes. This we are seeing these days happen in our events and prayers. It is a totally new experience. We have opened our hearts and minds these days to all things possible, putting aside our logical mind and savoring the miraculous moments. Thank you for traveling with me.