It was on a hot late Saturday afternoon in 2001 that my nephew dropped in on me in my home with a message from his gurus. I was hibernating then, staying away from all forms of worship taking what Lord Shiva had told me in a dream in 1988 to the extreme and ending all my readings, home puja, and temple worship. Lord Shiva seeing my torment at not getting answers to the sufferings others went through was merciful and compassionate enough to ask me to drop and shed everything I did then. That is when after 13 years my nephew Thayalan drops by giving me a message and a Vasudeva mantra that sets me back on track after the long absence. Later he passes me a painting of Lord Dhakshanamurty to worship telling me that I shall meet my guru soon. The following year Agathiyar comes as my guru in the Nadi reading and sends me off on a pilgrimage of Indian temples and finally to meet my very first guru in physical form, Supramania Swami of Tiruvannamalai on my last leg of the pilgrimage. Only did he reveal the source of the initiation a couple of years later. It was from Agathiyar. He used his network of gurus, Annamalai Swami and Gopal Pillai to convey the message in a trance through a devotee of theirs. As I believe the medium is not important but the message is I took on what was told to me and it set the path ablaze and removed all obstacles and simplified my journey. He gifted me a photo of Agathiyar at Agasthiyampalli after whom Agathiyar had asked me to commission his statue when he visited the temple. He and his family and friends were on hand to receive Agathiyar later in 2010 as Agathiyar entered my home as a bronze statue and invited him over to his home too.
No puja is complete without a session of bhajan or songs in praise of the Lord. Jegan has always lifted our moods and elevated us to a state of ecstasy many a time with his singing during our prayers. Often his buddy Hari would accompany him with the beat. Jegan has lent his voice to our in-house production with Raagawave Production - "Agathiyar Geetham".
I am grateful for the calling that came through the Nadi reading, my first in 2002. It set the ball rolling getting me to seek to know more about Agathiyar and the Siddhas. Taking his word as the Gospel, I made my first pilgrimage to India the following year in 2003. As promised in the Nadi I met Supramania Swami of Tiruvannamalai. Three years on I met Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal of Kallar Ashram during his visit to Malaysia. As promised he groomed me on the ways and teachings of the Siddhas. I am indebted for life to these two wonderful souls who showed me the many forms of the divinity that is in and around us, with names, images, tags, and labels attached and given by us. After their demise, the whole pantheon of Gods together with the Siddhas came to reveal further and take our hands. What more can one ask for?
Next in line is my family. I should have placed them at the beginning for they had been with me from the very start helping me with the preparations, during, and after the rituals conducted for the Siddha puja done in our home. Agathiyar tells us that we had all been together in a past birth too. He tells me further the reason I came to the Siddha path was because of them. Then came along many strangers seeking Agathiyar and sent by him to my home. They soon became family too. My family has grown in numbers since then.
Of course, I can never ever repay my parents for bringing me into this world.
Next in line in this series of "Souls Who Came By In My Life" is Surendran. Though he is mentioned 6th in line, he was one of the very first devotees of Agathiyar who came by my home as early as 2010 and has since then remained an ardent devotee of Agathiyar. He was chosen by Agathiyar I guess to bring in the news, latest developments, interviews, visuals, and audios that I have used extensively in my YouTube videos. He would get messages from Agathiyar regarding AVM and its direction through his numerous Nadi readings and convey them to us.
Life is akin to going on a tour. We stop at places meet with others and take leave. We do some sightseeing and some purchasing and off we go on to our next destination. Meanwhile there are several others with whom we travel in the same compartment or vehicle. These are the family and friends who spend more time with us. And so many souls came by on my life's journey too. Most came to make my life pleasurable and memorable. Some came as a thorn that hurt. But we choose to recall the good memories and regard the bad experiences as things to avoid in the future.
Along this journey Mahindren came along in 2013 together with several other youths introduced to me by Bala Chandran. I would rather choose to see him as sent by Agathiyar himself to anoint and decorate his bronze statue at my home. He volunteered and took up the tasks of bathing and dressing up Agathiyar's statue to his hearts content and the satisfaction of Agathiyar himself. Today he carries on the rituals in the confines of his home with his family and occasionally drops by at my home and performs the rituals before Agathiyar at AVM.
He came to witness our regular Pornami Puja or rituals conducted on full moon days after having a Nadi reading. He was a stranger to me then or so we thought. Agathiyar in his subsequent Nadi readings told us that we were together too in earlier births. He called my phone and called on me after his first Nadi reading on the advice of Agathiyar in the Nadi and Nadi Nool Aasan T.Ramesh. He began to participate in all our home prayers. Soon he spread the news about his Nadi reading and his visits to my home to his former schoolmates. They had come together to perform charity under the banner Thondu Seivom much earlier. With their arrival too, my home needed a name to identify and locate. Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia (AVM) was born. Soon Amudha Surabhi (AS) emerged as a charity arm of AVM. These youngsters were the driving force behind AVM and AS. All credits go to Balachandran, the one who started the ball rolling. He was the commander-in-chief of the team just had he had been on the battlefield in one of his previous births. He contributed many digital artworks for our use on Siddha Heartbeat.
Today he is the proud father of a set of twin daughters and a son, Agatheesan, named after Agathiyar.
The one who mooted me to live stream the pujas initially on Ustream.tv and later Live -YouTube, which otherwise was conducted within the four walls of my home, was Molly Menon who later became to be known to others as Jnana Jothiamma a name given by Agathiyar.
She had emailed me after reading my now-defunct website indianheartbeat.
Greetings to you Sir, I am Mrs Menon. I was reading an article from Agasthiar.com......when one link led to another and then to another another and finally saw this link........My travels with Supramania SWAMY. The attachment shows the site .....under the caption "from my travels in India"...form where I was able to get the complete picture of your travel and experiences with the Tavayogi and Subramaniya swamy.
Later that night at 7.30 pm, Supramania Swami lead me on prayer in his kudil. The Swami started chanting his guru Yogi Ramsuratkumar's (Visiri Swami)name. The chant went YOGI RAMSURATKUMARA, YOGI RAMSURATKUMARA,YOGI RAMSURATKUMARA JAYA GURURAYA.
After about a few minutes into the chant, I heard another voice - that of a male chanting together. I could hear Swami’s voice. I could hear mine too. So who was this third-person chanting with us? There was no one else then in the kudil. Swami's wife and son had gone out. I did not open my eyes. Eventually, after about twenty minutes, Swami ended the chant and the voice was not heard again. I had wanted to ask him about this third voice but completely forgot.
SUPRAMANIA SWAMI’S LIFE IN BRIEF
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This interested me a lot....a I had for a very long time trying to find out visit Saint Agasthiar's cave. I read all the articles posted on Sadhguru Venkataraman's site. What is this person who is mentioned as Tavayogi. Is he a guide or an Enlightened Master. Then I saw this link which shows...."email me ". Hence I thought I would email and find out the details of all that is mentioned here. I would also like to know who shanmugam.avadaiyappa is /regards. mrs menon.
I live in the United States and am planning a trip to India around July. God willing......I will try and visit Tavayogi's ashram in Kallar, Kovai. If you are on skype or yahoo. we can chat & you can tell me the details ...before I go.
Hence began a wonderful relationship between her and my family. She left for Kallar ashram in 2011 and was blessed to begin her journey on the Siddha path by Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal, Mataji Sarojini Ammaiyar, and Agathiyar. Returning to the USA she prompted me to air live the puja I did at home. She would watch the puja from her room at her aunt's place.
She also introduced me to Skype where she would speak to me for hours on end about Agathiyar. Agathiyar would take the opportunity to interrupt our conversation and speak to her on Skype. Wanting to see Agathiyar in my home, she followed us landing in Malaysia within hours after me and my family arrived home from visiting her and Kallar ashram in 2013. She spent just four days with Agathiyar and left to return the following year.
Moving back to her birthplace of Kerala and Chennai where she studied, she went on an extensive pilgrimage of discovery. Agathiyar arranged for her to be brought places. She spread the essence of Agathiyar's teachings brushing it on to all those who came within some distance. If initially, she went in search of the Siddhas after confining her to her room in an apartment in Chennai, she was visited by the Siddhas later. She has since passed away.
Many good souls have come by since I started on my journey seeking to know the Siddhas taking up the invitation by Agathiyar in my very first Nadi reading back then in the year 2002. I thought I shall pay tribute to these kind souls in a series of posts on Siddha Heartbeat 2.0
The one that came to my mind was a medical student Stalingiri hailing from South India who was studying in Russia then. He came into my life in 2014 having emailed me. He took it up upon himself to create digital posters announcing the many live streams I did back then. I am indebted to him for he took the trouble to engage in this tedious work amidst his studies. Today he is back in India.
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