அனைத்தும் எனக்கு மிகப் பழமையானவை. நான் அறிவேன். நீங்கள் அறிய மாடிர்கள். என்று அந்தத் திரை விலகுதோ அன்று அறிவீர்கள்.
Agathiyar says its a very old story. He knows. We don't. We are bound by ignorance and only when that veil is drawn aside shall we understand who we are and who he is. We have known him and he knows us over the ages. He remembers. We have forgotten.
Tavayogi was an old soul having taken rebirth again. He told me just as he had lost his sight in his early thirties, he lost it in his past birth too when Agathiyar was around. He had misused a divine mantra given by Agathiyar that he opted to test out that brought on a disastrous result which ended in him going blind. That karma from the very past continued to the present.
Tavayogi says it is possible to learn about our past births through the Nadi readings or through deep meditation. He saw it through meditation. As Agathiyar says "We are bound by ignorance and only when that veil is drawn aside shall we understand who we are and who he is", in meditation, when the veil of Maya is drawn aside we might have a glimpse of who we are.
When a saint falls from disgrace; when a cool calm guy does something least anticipated; when we are lost for answers as to why we are hit again and again by troubles and problems, the answer might be in the past. The Siddhas through their Siddhi of knowing the present, past, and future have the answers, but at times they only reveal what we need to know. Of course, they are not so cruel to tell you in your face that you are going to die the next day. They have their ways of communicating the message. We need to be alert to it.
For one who has mastered the tattwas, has control of the prana, has engaged with the prapanjam, he defeats death and remains a Chiranjeevi. When Ramalinga Adigal asks me, "Are in the prana, or is the prana in you?" (உன் பிரணவத்தால் ஊடுகிறாயா? அல்லது பிரணவம் உன்னுள் ஊடுகிறதா?) it could only mean that I arose from the prana or life force and that the prana and life force is also in me, just as Agathiyar told me that he was in the prapanjam and that the prapanjam was in him.
We have been repeatedly told to understand the tattwas before attempting to go within. And the reference was Tavayogi's book. When I voiced out that I could not fully comprehend the subject Ramalinga Adigal asked that I read it again. If I still cannot understand fully he shall come. Agathiyar once told us to read the original texts or scriptures and not translations for obvious reasons. For instance, he told us if we could not comprehend the Tirumanthiram, the author himself Tirumular shall make us comprehend, bringing an understanding.
The manifestations of the five primordial elements that are identified as 96 tattvas or elementary or primary principles or fundamental elements that form the basis or primary essence for the rest of the developments or basic building blocks both in man and all of creation that is both ethereal and volatile in nature are classified further into 14 broad categories. See the list at https://arganesh3.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/human-body-96-basic-principles/
P.Karthigayan in his "History of Medical and Spiritual Sciences of Siddhas of Tamil Nadu", explains that generally, these 96 principles tattvas animate us on life's stage, eventually ending their act, leaving and going their way at the end of the divine play. This brings us to an understanding that basically, everything about us is on loan. Nothing is ours. We do not have an identity. The name we carried is slashed and replaced with the word corpse. Our family cannot keep our corpse with them for more than a day. What happened to the person who moved, spoke, played in that body. Where was he now?
Science has its theory about our origin and it says death is inevitable. (https://home.cern/science/physics/early-universe#:~:text=It%20took%20380%2C000%20years%20for,abundant%20elements%20in%20the%20universe)
But the Siddhas, instead of returning to dust, reincarnated their spirit with the soul within their own body attaining death without dying, or சாகாமல் சாகும் கலை, by eliminating the worldly substances in it. What is retained is the form of their profile. All else is replaced. Substances of perishable nature will get replaced by substances of cosmic nature by altering the natural physical fabric through the science that prevailed then known as Kaaya Siddhi. On completion of the transformation, their body is retained forever. So there seems to be a need for understanding how the house that sustains our life spirit and soul, was built so that the process could be reversed, replaced, and transformed.
My earlier post at https://agathiyarvanam.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-final-transformation.html carries this interesting phenomenon take place in Ramalinga Adigal the night he decided to leave us as watched, seen and witnessed by Mother Mira Alfassa (aid of Sri Aurobindo of Pondicherry) during her meditation and narrated to her disciple Gangadharan.
"I had a continuous vision in my usual meditation in the night: the vision of de-materialization of the physical body of Swami Ramalinga into and as the truth-light of supreme grace... Though I have had occasions to ascend into and remain for some time in the truth-world of grace-light where from I could see the earth as part of the universe, the said vision came to me when my consciousness was on the earth itself."
"To begin with, I sensed an ineffable silence and peace prevailing everywhere and I heard continuously Para nada, the mysterious divine sound. Then the vision broke out."...
...."When he was thus absorbed in deep concentration, an effulgent truth-light of grace broke out from his heart and with its unique heat began to burn his radiant physical body very slowly, as at a snail's speed, and that in an upward direction, from the heart towards the head. The burning of the body may be somewhat likened to that of an incense-stick, which however burns downwards by its inner heat of fire, forming ash covering but without the falling down of the ash-form. When the upper part of his radiant body was burnt completely from heart to head, there was left in its place a form of pure white substance, which also radiated its light of consciousness. The burnt part, however, showed all its features intact and clearly and even the burnt hair of his head was seen distinctly as luminous white hair. Then the heat of the pure light of grace descended to burn the lower part."
"After the whole body was thus burnt, Vallalar was seen as a bodily form of pure white substance from head to foot, radiating its light. The white form kept intact all the different kinds of cells of his body and all the distinctive features and formations of his interior and exterior body. His bodily form did not shrink in size after the burning. I saw no visible flame nor sensed its heat during the burning of his living body, nor smoke, nor any bad smell as of burnt tissues, nor heard any cracking noise as of burnt bones. Instead, there was a sweet fragrance since the time his body began to burn and it spread everywhere. I sensed in my heart an ineffable calmness and silence, which gave me in turn a state of bliss."
"Now a second stage of burning began. The unique heat of grace-light began to burn slowly Valalalar's luminous form of white substance from head to foot downwards. When his white substance-form full of its radiating light, was thus burnt completely, the white substance became very fine sub-atomic conscious particles, which permeated and pervaded the entire universe and the farther pure worlds of consciousness beyond. The fine, white and conscious particles with its radiating light also entered into and got distributed everywhere in the earth and even in matter. After the universal pervasive distribution of the particles, they could be seen no more and disappeared from my sight. Now there pervaded everywhere the sweet, soft and fine fragrance of camphor which gave my body a blissful sensation and enraptured my heart as well."
"Then I had the rare vision of Vallalar's universal luminous golden form. In fact, the immensity of his golden form contained in it the whole universe. This form too disappeared from my view and was replaced by another vision in which I saw the golden light of truth-knowledge and grace entering into all the directions more speedily than the lightning. It permeated and pervaded the whole universe and the farther pure worlds of consciousness. It entered into our earth and all its crores of the physical forms of beings and objects and in the apparently insensible matter and even in the very dark realm of the vast in conscience. All the forms that were permeated by the golden light of truth changed into golden forms of beings and objects. The golden light entered into my whole Adhara including the physical body. My body felt in all the cells vibrations of ease and pleasantness."
"Then I heard some words of grace. However, they were indistinctly heard and could not be deciphered, as I was absorbed in a rapture of bliss due to the sublime vision and experiences. Thus, the vision lasted an hour of time and ended."
Amazing. Truly no words to describe. I leave you to read it again and again and envision, digest, and imbibe this wonderful gradual transformation of Ramalinga Adigal into and as the truth-light of supreme grace. Arutperunjhoti, Arutperunjhoti, Taniperungkarunai Arutperunjhoti.