Just as Donkey keeps asking Shrek and Fiona in the movie Shrek 2, "Are we there yet" and is told "No, Donkey! Not yet" numerous times and told that they were heading for "The Kingdom of Far, Far Away" and told again that "That's where we're going. Far, far away!", and similarly just like little Tuk in "Avatar - The Way of Water", asks Jake Sully and Neytiri, who leave their kind to seek refuge with the reef people, the Metkayina clan, "Are we there yet?" as it took so long a journey, I too have asked Agathiyar if "I was there yet?" He replied "Not yet" but added that I shall eventually reach the destination. That is the compassion and love of Agathiyar to one who though blind to the ways of the Siddhas, the flame in us is kept alive by him. Meanwhile, while awaiting the day when he shall bring the full force of the Prapanjam down he has tasked me to bathe him daily. Only then shall he move house and no sooner, he told. Is his kingdom "The Kingdom of Far, Far Away" then? So where is this kingdom then? For the matter where is the realm of those who pass away? I believe it is very close, just a step away. Just a call away.
Mataji Sarojini who is heading the Sri Agathiyar Gnana Peedham now after Tavayogi left his mortal frame, was sitting at his samadhi in the ashram grounds. She was asking him why he left her such a huge responsibility and wished that he was around. That is when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around to look. No one was in sight. Almost immediately she heard the voice of Tavayogi reassuring her that he was with her.
Dhanvantri too in coming to address us after Tavayogi went into samadhi told us that he was with us in the form of light. Tavayogi himself has addressed us several times coming through devotees.
When he passed on, a devotee in South Africa, had a dream. Lord Shiva was ferrying Tavayogi and several others clad in white across the waters heading for land where stood a majestic hill. Atop the hill, sages were going on doing their chores.
It was reported that Bhagawan Ramana entered the holy hill of Arunachala and witness a spectacular world within it. His description of this world was portrayed closely in the movie "Baba". Bhagawan later had the entrance to this sanctuary closed.
Agathiyar revealed of the Siddhas staying in the ground several feet down in the Nadi of the famed Jeeva Nadi guru from Chennai, Hanumathdasan.
If we had seen saints from India taking the leap into a portal to the other world in the likes of Manikavasar, Sambandar, Sundarar, and many others in the past, in recent times a tale is told of how Esakhi Siddhar of Tiruvannamalai held on to the hands of a lad, invited him to his world. Both Vimalan and Suresh who had attended the Pornami puja at Kallar invited me to their hometown of Tiruvannamalai during my visit to India in 2005. Once there I called them over to Supramania Swami's kudil. They invited Swami and me to a Sivan temple. There they introduced me to this lad. It seems he had come upon the dilapidated temple and taken up the task of cleaning it and lighting a lamp. He stayed back to become its priest and caretaker. Once a man appeared and after picking up a conversation, took him by the hand to the back of the Shivalingam and place his finger into a crack in the wall. Before the lad knew it the man's body had passed through the crack. What was left was the remaining portion of his lower right arm and hand that had a good hold on him. He asked if the lad wanted to follow him. The lad panicked and let go of the man's hand. The man disappeared into the crack that shone brightly. Before disappearing into the gap the man managed to reveal himself as Esakhi.
Another story unfolds at Kallar Old Ashram. Tavayogi called me excitedly and told me my brother, sister-in-law, and nephew had been blessed with Lord Muruga's darshan. A young lad in pants and shirt walked up the small hill on which the old ashram was perched, taking a few steps and then bringing his hands to his hips would look around and continue walking up. When he reached the top, as it was lunchtime and everyone was having their lunch, Tavayogi invited him to join. The lad replied that he had taken it. The lad behaved quite strangely, speaking nonsense, things that did not make any sense to those gathered there. In between this senseless talk, he would mention that he was in Kataragamam. Then he continued with the nonsensical talk. He would pause to mention Thiruchendur. He continued. He stopped to mention Palani. Then he says that he came to Kallar as he heard there were good souls there. All the places he mention were abodes of Lord Muruga. Only then did it dawn on Tavayogi that it was Lord Muruga who had come. When he showed signs of recognition, the lad hushed him and entered the Dyana Peedham. Everyone followed him. The lad blessed them and asked my brother if he wanted to follow him. Tavayogi quickly intervened saying that he would send my brother later. The lad left the way, just as he had come.
Once the deity Karupanasamy came on a cousin of my friend as he went to ease himself after having a session of beer. Karupanasamy commanded my friend to send him back to his abode telling him to follow the light of an oil lamp lit at a temple several streets away. Upon arrival at the temple, Karupanasamy left the body of my friend's cousin.
In 2005, as Tavayogi, my brother and me stood in line for the gates to Lord Murugan's chamber in Palani to be opened for the day I felt elated that this time around I was seeing Lord Muruga at Palani accompanied by my guru Tavayogi. But again I do not remember a single thing while there. We came away from his chamber into the open and crossed a courtyard to Bhogar's sannadhi. We moved into a corridor that was painted with murals depicting events in Bhogar's life. Now I was asking myself if this was Bhogar's sannadhi then where was I the first time I came to Palani in 2003? The route to Bhogar's sannadhi was different then. As I turned to walk out of Lord Murugan's sannadhi back then I passed through a door into a dark alley. On just taking a few steps I was before another chamber on my right. I looked in. There were four Brahmin priests in attendance. I asked the one closest to the door if it was Bhogar’s Samadhi and he nodded. I entered the room and stood in prayer while he showed the flame or arati. The priest pointed out the opening where Bhogar is believed to be in samadhi. He pointed out the yantra, the jade lingam, and other items of worship that Bhogar had with him. So where was I then?
The Siddhas are in our world as much as they are in theirs. There is only a very fine line separating both. Just as it took Esakhi Siddhar to pass through a tiny crack in the wall back to his world; just as it took a short drive for Karupanasamy to go home; and just as it took me a few steps to turn a corner that brought me to the mystic plane where Bhogar rests in Samadhi, a place quite different from what was envisioned by others; their world seems pretty close and approximate to ours, almost running on parallel planes.
As Michael Palin wrote in his "Himalaya", The Book People Ltd, St Helens, 2004, "The India-Myanmar border slices right down the middle of the chief's hut, so he can walk between the two countries without ever leaving home", so it seems with the Siddhas.