Siddha Heartbeat: OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE

When I was a kid, I used to draw and paint well and thought of becoming an artist, but good sense told me that I could not make it a profession growing up in the seventies and eighties. I used to watch lots of movies and carried a desire to direct one, but again, good sense showed me all the trials and tribulations I would face in making one back then. I took up Civil Engineering as a profession in college, eventually following in the footsteps of my brother-in-law. Maybe that is the reason Agathiyar and later Lord Muruga wanted me to build a temple for them, thinking that I shall again follow in the footsteps of my brother-in-law, who later built a temple for Saint Raghavendra. Though I was in the projects, an invitation from my boss to serve as secretariat to a committee and a word of advice from an officer, Mr. Segaran, who resigned his job and departed for Paramahansa Yogananda's Ashram in Ranchi, opened the door to better things to come my way. Taking up Mr. Segaran's advice, I quickly learned on my own how to make presentations and simple animations for the department, and learned HTML enough to work on my first website, indianheartbeat. When Tavayogi came along, I began to make videos of him and his Kallar Ashram and uploaded them on YouTube. Finding blogging easier to incorporate videos and pictures compared with websites, I switched to blogging at Siddha Heartbeat. As Supramania Swami told me, no effort is wasted; all that I picked up over time has come to my aid now. Coming to the worship of the Siddhas, I continued taking down notes and writing on my pilgrimages, and about my gurus, encounters, and my experiences. I uploaded these as ebooks online. If Supramnia Swami of Tiruvanamalai ignited the fire in me, both Tavayogi and Agathiyar kept the fire burning in me. The day Agathiyar decides to hold his breath, mine will stop too. Will I be remembered? I hope not for all the wrong reasons, but like I remember my gurus and Agathiyar?

Kogie Pillai quoted from Robin Sharma’s “Who Will Cry When You Die” (1999), “Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice" in her blog at https://aaksharawellness.blogspot.com/. She believes I will, as she wrote further that,

"When he leaves, he will rejoice, and the world will cry; tears of joy for having known someone who left a treasure of knowledge and wisdom; someone who lived to achieve his material objectives and his higher purpose."

Thank you for believing in me, Mrs Kogie Pillai.