In coming to the Siddhas, first and foremost, they help us relieve or lay down our guilt. This is to bring peace upon us, or rather return to our true state or nature that is Peace or Shanti. Here is where, after highlighting our past deeds or Karma that have brought on this birth, and providing a long list of remedies to be carried out, the divine accepts our apology and helps settle the score with the souls in our past lives. They ask that we forgive ourselves, too, and bring an end to our suffering and pain in this life, as well as remorse and shame. Agathiyar went further to take on the blame for my past wrongs, telling me that I needed those experiences, too.
After Agathiyar directed me to feed the birds in my Nadi reading to relieve my karma, they mysteriously appeared in our garden, even sparing me the need to go looking for them. If I thought I was doing them a favor by feeding them, speaking to Mrs Kogie Pillai last night over the phone, she made me realize that, contrary to my belief that I was carrying out a remedy given, the birds had a job to do, and left the very next instant, their job was done. Mrs. Kogie made me realize that, like these birds that left soon after several months, as their work was done, each person comes into our lives for a reason. It is to enhance our positive attributes and help us evolve, or rather, help us shed the veil that is covering us. Rather than thinking we are doing others a favor, the truth of the fact is they are doing us a big favor. As such, we should learn to respect and love others more than we love ourselves. We have to emulate our parents, who place their children above all else. I understand now why Agathiyar had me listen to others' problems and not shun or shut myself away, asking me where I would go if he were to shut his ears.
Comparing and judging others would also end if we could follow what Mrs Kogie told me. She saud even if one is evil, let him do his work, for he is equally a part of existence, just as we are part of it too. It reminded me of what Bhagawan Ramana and later Yogi Ramsuratkumar told their followers, to let another do what he came to do, even after they were battered, the Bhagawan, when thieves broke into his ashram, and the Yogi, when racial sentiments got the better of locals who bashed him up on the streets. In settling for this, we shall come to terms and accept that it is all God's will and his play or Lila.
It is all a work of energies that have taken form as this world is one of form. The Yogi lying on his deathbed assured his followers that he could do a better job in the energy plane, for the physical plane has its limitations. Agathiyar and Dhanvantri revealed that Tavayogi is helping us from this energy plane, too. This is what we consider as blessings of the divine and our ancestors. Henceforth came forth the worship of gurus and ancestors. But mere blessings would not work if we do not move and place effort. The divine and ancestors would come as the leverage to complete our task. For instance it was always a wonder seeing a couple purchase, cook, and distribute meals to the poor, homeless, and hungry. But we knew that behind them stood all the Siddhas.
We, too, shall one day return to become the very energy that took this form, all the elements dispersing and returning to its source. But before that, we need to know this energy and use it in a way beneficial to others. The Siddhas can help us with this. They did help me, too.
Believing what was seen, heard, felt, and read initially, they had me look within and connect with these energies and later connect with these very energies all around us. It has been an interesting journey of traveling with these energies. After all the reading and discussion, that only brought more confusion and even doubt whether God existed. Lord Siva, coming in a dream in 1988, asked me to take some time off. Here lies the love and compassion of the divine, for he stopped me from turning cuckoo.
After 13 years, in 2001, the divine, whom I came to know later as Agathiyar, coming through my nephew as an energy, delivered his message and the Vasudeva Mantra in my very home without the need for me to seek this transmission elsewhere. Again, here lies the love and compassion of the divine. I was told that it was preparatory work done to meet my guru. I took heed of all his advice. The Mantra cleared the blocks and paved the way for me to begin my new journey after the past 13 years had cleared the storehouse of bookish knowledge I had picked up on God and religion.
A year later, I read my Nadi and the Siddhas thenceforth charted my life. I took heed of all their advice. Asking me to go on pilgrimages and carrying out remedies, Agathiyar helped me shed further my Karma that stood in my way of even receiving the benefits and rewards of all my practice and efforts.
Coming to Supramania Swami of Tiruvannamalai, in passing me the benefits and merits of his forty years of Tavam or spiritual practices, he jump-started and lifted me, having me forego the numerous tedious steps and stages as in the Snakes and Ladders game, which Tavayogi too came to acknowledge later.
When Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal came into my life, there was no looking back. He helped me chart my life further. The Siddhas came regularly through the Nadi readings to guide me further and assure me that I was on the right track.
Taking up the Yoga practice that Tavayogi passed on to me and several others boosted my energy levels, where I could tap into the Prana. These intensified the energies within, over the years to come, and unknowingly worked wonders within, though it was painful and worrying at times. But Agathiyar was always by my side, assuring me that all was well and asking to see pain and suffering as bliss too. The pain has been back for the last few days, but I am taking it all in my stride, knowing that Agathiyar is there for me. I know that he is working on me quietly but intensely to bring forth a beautiful butterfly from its eclose.