I am glad that Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal questioned me back, back then, if I really wanted to see Agathiyar and Ramalinga Adigal. What, then, he asked. Tavayogi set me free from becoming attached to images.
I am glad that Agathiyar and Ramalinga Adigal have not revealed themselves in a form for I would become attached to it and attest that that was how they were and are.
Though I tried vainly to install his image in any existing temple and wherever and whichever committee would permit me, after Agathiyar asked me to build a temple for him, I am glad that I did not budge later, even after Lord Muruga told me that he would provide for the land, money, and have others help me build it. Agathiyar came later and revealed that they had tested me. They set me free from becoming attached to the temple.
I am glad that he dissolved Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia (AVM), which took shape after the arrival of several youths to participate in my home Puja after their Nadi reading, and which branched out to carry out charity, at the direction of Agathiyar. They set me free from having a following and getting caught in it and doing the same thing till the end, respectively. They freed me too again from getting attached this time to a movement.
I am glad that Agathiyar, some time back, in telling me that he wanted to move into the houses of several other devotees, which I gladly facilitated without any hesitation, again set me free from becoming attached to his image.
I am glad that he stopped coming through the Nadi after some sixty-odd times. He set me free from becoming attached and hooked to it.
I am glad that he stopped coming through devotees, too. He set me free from becoming attached to yet another medium of communication.
In asking me if he should make me a guru and almost immediately retracted the thought and offer, he freed me again from attachment and a following.
Finally, in asking me to even let him go, telling me how else shall we become one, he took me into his arms. We became one.
He showed me that he was beyond form through all these instances. He showed me that he was the very Prapanjam and Existence, prevailing everywhere. This is where Ramalinga Adigal, Bhagawan Ramana, Yogi Ramsuratkumar, Supramania Swami, and Tavayogi returned, too. He had all these saints come to us and help us connect with him. Today, we stay connected, something that was hidden by the veils and curtains that we pulled across, which blinded us from the truth that all of creation and we are one, and that we are pure in essence. When we hurt another, we hurt ourselves. We are that which is awake and aware each moment and existing forever, through time and space. The images of the multi-faceted deities with numerous limbs, in a way, depict this truth that each of us is a limb of the one divinity or Yegan.
As the nation celebrates its 68th Independence day tomorrow I too take pride that I am freed from all shackles thanks to the grace, love and compassion of Agathiyar.
Neale Donald Walsch, in his "The Wisdom of the Universe", Penguin Random House, 1995, shares God's words to him in closing this wonderful book.
Know that you can call on me to answer them (the questions). You do not need the form of this book. This is not the only way I speak to you. Listen to me in the truth of your Soul. Listen to me in the feelings of your heart. Listen to me in the quiet of your mind. Hear Me everywhere....
My response could be in an article already published. In the sermon already written and about to be delivered. In the movie now being made. In the song just yesterday composed. In the words about to be said by a loved one. In the heart of a new friend about to be made.
My truth is in the whisper of the wind, the babble of the brook, the crack of the thunder, the tap of the rain. It is the feel of the earth, the fragrance of the lily, the warmth of the sun, the pull of the moon....It is as loud as a pounding heartbeat and as quiet as a breath taken in unity with Me.
I will never leave you. I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product. My daughter and My son. My purpose and My ..Self. Call on Me therefore wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I am. I will be there.
In sharing these words of God, it sent shivers through my body that were blissful. Thank you, Neale Donald Walsch, for sharing and allowing me to reshare it here.