Watching some recent films including "Maanagaram" and "Kasada Thapara" made me realize the extent we are all connected. If I thought initially that I only knew my parents and relatives, siblings, friends at school and later colleagues at work, those in the neighborhood, and those who came together in prayers to the Siddhas, I realize that we have connected over a larger area and network of people though we never laid eyes on them. For instance, my granddaughters share about their time in their paternal grandmother's home. Similarly, they would have shared about us with them. Of course, we know each other. Then family members would have shared about us to others whom neither of us had met. Similarly, news reaches out to many who neither know them personally nor have met them. Then with the net and social media, our faces are everywhere. These images, their profiles, etc. remain in our memories. We are riddled with such memories and thoughts throughout our lives. When newer instances and events and people come into our lives the earlier memories are shelved into the archives but never lost.
Here is where Tavayogi told me that in meditation we could know our past birth. Knowing this would connect us with others in the past too. Going further, once we get to know the Atma we can see through all the previous and future connections, events, and happenings. Better still, when we realize that we are the Atma we see everything crystal clear. That is how the Siddhas, Agathiyar and now Tavayogi can tell us what is going to take place, whether to go ahead or pull the breaks in a venture or close a deal or run away from it, etc. In this state, I suppose everything is laid before our eyes. We need only shift through the layers to arrive at the time and moment mentioned and retrieve the needed information. Could this place of storage, like the present-day, servers and cloud where all data is saved, be the Akashic library that is accessible to them?
So if it now seems like our lives are an open book as the net has much data on us, our preferences, likes, and dislikes, etc the Siddhas back then wrote and kept details of selected individuals in their achieves.
In "Kasada Thapara" though it seems the "lives of a few individuals get impacted, both in good and bad ways, by the actions of others who are hardly connected to them" we are told in reality it is all a Butterfly Effect and Vantage Point theory.
In the opening scene, we are told that "Man is a social animal. We must live in peaceful co-existence, be it the good-hearted or the villain, the rich and poor, the literate or illiterate. We are living in solidarity without our own knowledge. Leading such a life of co-existence, 2 scientific theories hold good in our daily lives. The Vantage Point theory is when an event seen from a certain point will be perceived differently when viewed from a different angle. Hence, the climax of the event will change according to the venue and point of view. The next is the Butterfly Effect, that is, every small single action initiated by us will cause a change in the actions of others too. If you watch closely our lives, we can appreciate these two theories playing out in our lives. "
Whatever information perceived by our senses or told to us might bear a certain amount of inaccuracies. A classic tale was shared on the net and Bala forwarded it to us. A king is wrongly accused by a villager of poisoning his guest when in actuality the venom from a snake that was held in the grips of a hawk that flew over the festive grounds had landed into a pot of broth. Lord Shiva had the royal accountant in his court write the karma on the villager instead of the king.
The trainer during our class in Neuro-Linguistic Programming made us think out of the box when he showed another possibility. After all of us had presented our drawings of an elephant to the class, he walked up and placed a dot on a large sheet of paper and declared that that was his elephant - seen from space. Indeed, the vantage point does affect our view and perspective of things, and our assumption and opinion of matters. The Siddhas watching from another realm would have a complete picture of events right from its causes that might date back centuries and ages till the present time. Similarly, they can predict the future to a certain extent provided another doesn't move the pieces, which is of course impossible. As the universe is constantly expanding because of our actions, predictions tend to go haywire.
As for the Butterfly Effect, a classic movie that portrays this theory is "Police Academy" where an apple that is thrown out the window of a police car create havoc in the town.
While downtown, Fackler throws an apple out of a police car, which hits a man on the back of the head; this triggers a chain reaction of violence which quickly escalates into a general riot. Mahoney, just about to leave, instead joins the other cadets to pacify the crowd. The cadets are accidentally transported to the epicenter of the rioting, and one criminal steals Blankes and Copeland's revolvers, whereupon the two hide out in the Blue Oyster Bar. A rioter gang captures Harris, with their group leader taking him as a hostage. Mahoney attempts to rescue Harris but is also taken hostage. Hightower appears, deceives the madman, and knocks him down a set of stairs, to be arrested by Hooks. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy_(film)
Phew, what a series of unfortunate events! Recently, a couple who had diligently carried out remedies given by Agathiyar until he asked their relative to carry out one too, turned on me and Agathiyar wanting to know what was the logic behind asking someone else to carry out the remedies for their personal problems in life? I told them not to question Agathiyar for he knows best. He reads the past, present, and future. I asked them to read the early postings on "Siththan Arul" where the blog administrator Velayudham Karthigayen Aiya shared the mysteries of the Nadi and how it brought people from afar together because of their previous links in earlier births. I personally was so intrigued by these stories that my hunger to know more made me purchase the full set of 5 books compiled from writings by the famed Nadi reader Hanumathdasan published in several weekly magazines. In a timely manner, Tavayogi comes to tell us that life is a lesson and not a math equation to solve. Live the life he says rather than investigating the causes or trying to understand it. Agathiyar warned a couple not to question the past or look into its causes for they might not like it and cannot accept it.
The series of books and postings in a way encouraged me to write about my Nadi experiences, the Siddhas, and their Lilas or play. I am glad I did take it up, for otherwise, it would all have left my memory as we age. Now when my grandchildren learn to read by themselves they shall have something to read that is left by their grandfather. I am grateful to Agathiyar for initiating this and Tavayogi and readers to keep my spirits up when I had thought of bringing the shutters down on the blog several times in the past. These days they give me the subject and even the words and sentences. I am only the hand that types the keyboard. After posting each post, I go back and read them several times, trying to understand what is written. I guess the idea of having me write is to keep me from going senile and instead alert for my age. Thank you, Papa!