A sound soul in a sound body. This is what we should achieve while we are here. Learn to respect and worship our body because many things are happening within it that are beyond our control. We can plant crops to feed us and water them. What takes place after that is beyond our powers. Similarly, we can only bring this food into our mouths. From thereon, many things take place that are beyond our reach and understanding of a commoner though science has defined and explained the process breaking them down into phases as ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion, etc. Similarly, the miracle of conceiving is also beyond our efforts. Our effort ends in the couple coming together. The rest is determined by nature and the laws that govern it.
It is pretty obvious that I, Shanmugam Avadaiyappa, can only perform to a certain stage or limit. Nature then takes its course. How is the course determined? Why does nature's law act and vary in numerous ways according to each individual and is not the same for everyone? Call it God, Nature, Prapanjam, or Consciousness, all these are but labels and tags, names given to help us identify with what we are talking about, for otherwise how would you make sense of what I am talking about, speaking, or writing about. We would be clueless. But when there is a term given for each phenomenon or happening we can quickly relate to what is spoken about. Imagine mankind before there was language and the spoken word. How would he have communicated what he intended to share? How would he have shared his experiences, adventure, and journey? But these very words that helped us all these while have come to confuse us later. So was I confused when many used the words spirit and soul, Uyir and Atma interchangeably. Agathiyar came to clear the air through a memo moving Mahindren to write it out and share it with me and readers. Here again Agathiyar in explaining the Udal or body, Uyir or breath, and Atma or Soul, gave us an insight into the process of conceiving. Similarly, when so many incredible translations and additions came along the way while we walked the path, from so many parties confusing us further, Agathiyar came through another memo that he had me write and share with viewers and readers explaining the path in very simple terms. We are grateful to Agathiyar for clarifying and pulling us out of the turpid waters that clouded, polluted, and diluted their true teachings.
I had once blamed God for man's suffering. But he had me drop all my questions to a later date for he waited on me to gain maturity in thinking and prepare myself to receive his teachings. Meanwhile, he emptied me of all the readings, discussions, and confusions that came about as a result of this, making me an empty vessel to be filled by his teachings that were to come through the Siddhas some 14 years later. Today he has educated me well showing me in all ways possible that he has nothing to do with all these. We have charted the cause that is generally irreversible unless the Siddhas come into our lives. It is the Siddhas who, overflowing with love and compassion, and not able to see the sufferings of fellow humans and creation took it up with the Almighty asking to change man's fate and help him draw up a new destiny. Besides carrying past Karma we carry unfulfilled desires and wants, likes and dislikes and to top it all up each moment we give birth to new desires and wants. If we regret and wish that we should have acted differently, immediately it is registered as a new desire and we have to live to see it through too. This might lead us to take yet another birth if it is not satisfied in this birth. A desire of another too shall lead the way for us to take another birth.
Many think being well-informed makes them spiritual. Mere reading from books and listening to others does not make us a Siddha. He has to live the way of a Siddha and practice the methods and means to achieve Siddhahood. He has to come under another Siddha to truly learn the path and the means. I was truly blessed to have Agathiyar send me Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal of Kallar Ashram. I believe that I have done justice to them both. After all the practice, just as in cultivating and eating, as Agathiyar and Lord Muruga say there is nothing further to do, it is now the moment to step aside and watch the wonder that unfolds and goes on within us.