Another interesting topic that my friend and I spoke about over the phone was that of Karma. Though it was Agathiyar who opened the can of worms by looking into the stars or rather the Nadi that is supposedly written way back in the past by the Siddhas, copies of which were later made by men and read by Nadi readers in present times, revealing and telling us about our past Karma that brought on this birth and the sufferings as most often only those who cannot comprehend life and its misgivings reach out to the Nadi to know what the hack was happening, eventually Agathiyar swallows up the very poison freeing us to partake the ambrosia hidden in the depth of the ocean as told in the Puranas or more correctly in oneself.
As I walked the way and the path with him, he revealed that it was not all and entirely my past actions that resulted in the happenings in my life. He revealed that he had a hand in it too. He had pushed me into circumstances that I would have avoided naturally or if left to me, so that I could have those experiences that came out of these moments and gather the life lessons. As such he told me not to blame myself and to pardon myself. In taking on the blame partially, he told me not to shoulder it entirely. Now he calls up my family and friends and tells them that all was his doing taking the blame entirely for all the happenings in our lives currently. Here too he tells us that we each have a lesson to learn from these experiences.
Then another friend, reader, and devotee of Agathiyar sent me a snapshot of a page from the book "Aghora II: Kundalini" by Robert E. Svoboda that he was currently reading at a very appropriate moment. The author writes that effect, instrument, and action are all one, summarizing what Agathiyar told us.
Understanding how Karma can consciously affect the lives of his patients, a Siddha practitioner and devotee of Agathiyar had to make a bold move in denying Karma, the past birth, and that in the future. I had invited him to speak to us about keeping well following the Siddhar Vazhkai Neri Murai or the way of the Siddhas. When he surprised me by saying that the above three were not true, I kept quiet and let him finish. When he had returned home, I called him up and told him that he had erred and that all three were true as the Siddhas have professed and spoken about them. He agreed but explained that he had a reason to say so. People who came to see him were stuck on the subject of Karma, blaming themselves, and were low in spirit. How can the body heal then? How can the herbal medicines and preparations he gave begin to work on them? In pulling the rug from under their feet though they fell on their faces they went back cheerful and most importantly with a positive view that both their lives and health would change for the better. I understood that he meant well. Agathiyar too often has asked what use would it be to us to know certain things. A man who insisted on wanting to know his dreadful past, ended his life after Agathiyar gave in to his insistence and revealed the past. If some things did more harm than good, it is all right I believe to not to unexposed them or leave them hidden.
Similarly, my friend who spoke to me seemed to be caught in the net of Karma for as he was following Nadi reading for himself and for the public, he was disturbed thinking if this circle and cycle would ever end.
Agathiyar who threw the dice and made us move up the game of snake and ladder or fall down, has stopped throwing the dice. He finally tells my family to go ahead and do whatever we want and that he shall stand with us in all our decisions. He has apparently erased the word Karma from our dictionary and our lives. He has freed us. We are free to move. Could this be what Tavayogi told me back then that the soul should not be caged and set free to explore?