Thursday, 25 September 2025

THE JOURNEY, THE EXPERIENCE, THE LESSON & THE UNDERSTANDING

Tavayogi was asked to come to Malaysia in 2004 by Agathiyar to sow the seeds on our shores. He followed a Nadi reader, not knowing what was in store, nor did he know anyone locally. He made a few acquaintances while here and preached at a Narayanan temple before leaving. Meanwhile, Appana Nagappan, who was told that he would meet his guru, ventured to Kallar, made acquaintances with him, and eventually brought him over the following year to officiate his new Peedham at Batu Caves. Here is where I was drawn to meet Tavayogi after his name, which continuously appeared in the local Tamil daily, rang a bell. When I went for my Nadi reading in 2002, the Nadi reader passed me a leaflet carrying his name, which mentioned the building of a temple for Agathiyar in Kallar and sourcing funds for it. I became his student.

Just as Tavayogi was tasked to sow the seeds, Agathiyar had Bala Chandran Gunasegaran turn up at my home after his Nadi reading in 2013, to watch and participate in the Pournami Puja. Bala Chandran then began to bring his friends, and these youths flooded the gates to my home, which took on the name Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia (AVM). We extended our arms to care for the hungry, poor, and unfortunate, going by as Amudha Surabhi (AS). Then, in the wake of the pandemic, Agathiyar had me bring down the shutters to AVM and AS and had each man go his way, taking along whatever tools and materials that they had picked up during those six years. 

As for me, he told me to go within. Following the practice of the Asanas and Pranayama that Tavayogi showed me in 2007, Agathiyar unleashed the power of the creative energies that created us and, since then, remain dormant within the Muladhara, which made its way to Svadhistana and eventually pooled and ponded, stagnating in Manipuraka. In 2024 over two days, he broke the banks of the pond, bringing on a swirling sensation that made me nauseous and my body froze from the neck downwards, giving me an idea of how a dead body would lie as a log. He then paved the way for the energy to reach Sahasrara within days, bringing on a sensation of flowering of the 1000-petaled chakra, telling me that henceforth the energy would do its work, which is going on even as I pen these words. Unlike Tavayogi, who was tasked to preach, Agathiyar, who knew I had little patience with people, and would blow my top, and ruin all his hard work in bringing me to this state, instead of having me take the stage or address a forum too, had me write about the path to becoming light, and share my inner experiences from the comfort of my home. I have been saved again, as he always does, staying safe behind the curtain, unknown to many and carrying out my given tasks.

Since Agathiyar directed me to share with those keen to follow the path, here are the many materials and tools that I have made available online. The rest is available in this blog and accessible when viewed as a web version.

Digital books available for download at 
  • https://www.scribd.com/user/164903150/agathiyanproductions
  • https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/fire-of-devotion/17037876
  • https://www.scribd.com/search?query=shanmugam+avadaiyappa



and some previous websites, which seem to remain behind, although I had deactivated and made them defunct in the past.
https://sidha-heartbeat.webnode.page/
https://sidha-heartbeat.webnode.page/news/miracles-at-kallar/

Here are extracts from these websites for your reading.

Miracles at Kallar

27/07/2013 14:52

Agathiyar has been performing miracles at the Sri Agathiyar Sri Thava Murugar Gnana Peedham Thirukovil in Kallar, Kovai.

What started as a humble hermitage by Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal on the instruction of Agathiyar, the Sri Agathiyar Gnana Peedham has today mushroomed into a much bigger ashram, the Sri Agathiyar Sri Thava Murugar Gnana Peedham Thirukovil Dhyana Kudil. Agathiyar instructed Tavayogi to seek Agathiyar Vanam and set up his hermitage. Therefore, Tavayogi found himself at present-day Kallar on the 9th km of the Ooty-Mettupalayam route.

Agathiyar instructed him to install the 6 Aathaara Peedham to be worshiped. This 7-tier granite structure was subsequently made and installed. When the Peedham was delivered in one huge piece, Tavayogi and the other devotees were figuring out how they were to haul it across the railway tracks and up the hill where the ashram stands. Agathiyar assures Tavayogi and gives a sign. They engage an elephant to do the task.

Once at the top and in the ashram, they faced the problem of moving it into the meditation room. The elephant comes to the rescue again by using its trunk to push the Peedham in place.

Agathiyar sent local native aboriginal Indians to settle around the Peedham. The Government later built homes for these dwellers. Tavayogi started feeding these native children and donated clothing and stationery with funds from the public.

Tavayogi was then instructed to propagate and spread the teachings of the Siddhas to devotees in Malaysia and Singapore. Towards that purpose, Tavayogi made a few trips to these countries. 

Tavayogi started conducting the Yagam or lighting of the sacrificial fire. Later, he was instructed to light five fire pits, and this was increased to 108 the following year on the instruction of Agathiyar. 

Then a fiber statue of Agathiyar was installed, and another of Thava Murugan followed soon. The statue of Agathiyar was placed because the public could not comprehend the formless; they needed a statue to look at, focus and, contemplate, and touch. 

A devotee later suggested that Lord Murugan, too, be placed to complement Agathiyar, as Murugan was Agathiyar’s guru. Therefore, the statue of Thava Murugar or Siddha Supramaniar came to be.

Mataji Sarojini Ammaiyar, on her part, was told to bring back to Kallar a small granite statue of Agathiyar she had had made some time back under instruction by Agathiyar, and which was placed somewhere else. Watch the festivities and prayers at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAAdKAS-cI0

Then Tavayogi ‘discovered’ that he had a Jeeva nadi in his midst amongst the numerous nadis he had in his possession. He discovered that letters appeared in the nadi on their own. He was then instructed by Agathiyar to read to devotees who came in search of the Jeeva Nadi on Saturdays. Mysteriously, Agathiyar puts a stop to the nadi reading a year back. After a lapse of a year, Agathiyar has begun speaking through the Jeeva Nadi again.
 

Agathiyar then instructed Tavayogi to place a granite statue of him (Agathiyar) at the exact spot where he had appeared to Tavayogi in the jungles of Kallar. 

A few days before the Agathiyar Jayanthi & Guru Puja celebrations on 31 December 2012, a sadhu mysteriously shows up at Kallar, bringing with him an unusual Rudraksha and hands it to Tavayogi with instructions to worship it as a linga. A peacock mysteriously appears at the ashram out of the blue on one fine day. Along the way, Tavayogi gets visitations from Siddha Konganar, Lopamudra, and Lord Murugan.

Agathiyar continues performing miracles at the Sri Agathiyar Gnana Peedham.  Watch the miracles at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6vaqdfRKRU


Read more: https://sidha-heartbeat.webnode.page/news/miracles-at-kallar/

Miracles by Sidhas

27/07/2013 12:59
Agathiyar Grooms a Disciple for a Bigger Mission.
 

When Agathiyar performs miracles through Molly Menon for all to see!

Just as we have seen the many miracles that have taken place at Tavayogi’s Ashram in Kallar, Agathiyar did perform equally magnificent miracles in the life of an ardent devotee. She is Molly Menon from Lakeville, Minnesota, USA.

Molly was an ardent devotee of Goddess Ambal and Karupana Samy. Each time she returned to her homeland in Kerala, she never failed to offer her prayers to the seven-foot-tall Karupana Samy, whom she installed in Chennai. Watch a video of the prayers performed here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjL9vnPpxbk

She was an ardent devotee of Shirdi Sai Baba, too.

Then she came across Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal’s website, which sent her reeling to Kallar at https://www.scribd.com/doc/156307011/From-My-Travels-in-India

At Kallar Agathiyar, through Tavayogi, she was magically and mysteriously initiated. Tavayogi sent her away after her initiation. She went back to the USA only to return the following year (2012) to participate in the Agathiyar Jayanthi celebrations in Kallar. Watch the Jayanthi celebrations at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feW3LVVp5zk

Her tale is to be told, for it is a magnificent one. Molly used to share many hours with me on SKYPE, even before she made the journey to Kallar. Her yearning for Agathiyar grew from day to day.

Her first wish to go to Kallar was fulfilled when there was a calling within her. After Kallar, her life changed drastically and dramatically.

She used to watch the prayers for Agathiyar at my home via SKYPE and very much wanted to participate in the rituals. The ever-compassionate father created an opportunity for her to do so eventually in India itself at her convenience. She did the rituals to her heart’s content. Her second wish too was fulfilled!

She was having severe leg pains that affected her mobility. Agathiyar sent Siddha practitioners to heal her. Tavayogi introduces her to Siddha Practitioner Dr Ram Subramaniam. Her wish that her bodily aches should go away was fulfilled! Her third wish was fulfilled, too!

Feeling better, now she was able to go on a pilgrimage! The Dr and she go on a pilgrimage to Ambasamudram and Papanasam. At Kalyana Theertam, she is greeted by Agathiyar and Sadhu Krishnaveni Amma’s devotees. She is invited into Sadhu Krishnaveni Amma’s ashram. Devotees of Sadhu Krishnaveni Amma bring her to the caves in the vicinity. Her yearning to see Agathiyar materializes when Agathiyar shows her his light form or Jothi Darisanam in the caves of Kalyana Theertam. Her wish to see Agathiyar was fulfilled! Her fourth wish is fulfilled, too! It is here too that a stream of light appears mystically from the sky, follows her, blessing her, and slowly makes its way to Agathiyar and Lopamudra, who are seated majestically on a chariot! Amazingly, this majestic display was visible only on camera! Watch her journey along the path of the Sidhas at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opbi_oNDgYs

Molly Menon had always mentioned that she would want to lay a mat and lie in my prayer room.  Her wish was granted when ‘strangers’ laid a mat and placed a pillow for her to rest at Kalyana Theertam! The fifth wish is granted!

Sadhu Krishnaveni Amma’s devotees and Molly then set off to the jungles of Kalahasti to perform a Yagna. Molly is shown an amazing streak of light at the original Srikalahasti temple! Her sixth wish that Tavayogi should take her to all the caves and shrines of the Siddhas was fulfilled!

I had told Molly about how Agathiyar had opened his eyes in the granite statue of him at Vedharanyam and Courtalam and in the painting of Agathiyar in the home of devotees. While in Chennai, she is taken to a temple built by a new acquaintance, where Ramanujar opens his eyes! 

Molly was sad that she had lost a gift that was precious to her, given by someone close to her when she was leaving the USA. The person friend whom she became acquainted with recently hands her a box, which, on returning home, she finds out to her amazement, contains a similar gift to the one she lost at Dallas!

She had told me she wanted to move house as her present home was not conducive to meditation. Then she becomes acquainted with a devotee of Lord Murugar. Amazingly, Lord Murugar provides for her to be in solitude through Balakrishnan Swamy Mn!

On 21 March 2013, Molly Menon informed me over the phone from Palani that a 200-year-old man knocked on her door. She invited him in. He gave a loud laugh and spoke to her about the mystical rudraksham in Tavayogi’s possession. He then asked her for a drink. Molly went to fetch him some drinking water, expecting him to disappear by the time she returned. However, he was waiting for her. He sipped the water and returned her the tumbler. He gave her a peck on her cheek on the exact spot Molly had kissed the granite statue of Agathiyar at Tavayogi’s ashram in Kallar. The statue is now placed in the hills of Kallar. He then left. All this took place in three minutes. Molly, out of curiosity, peeked into the tumbler. What did she see? There was honey in it!

She was in solitude at Palani beginning 7 March 201,3, before Agathiyar instructed her to move to another spot of his at Kalyana Theertam. After a short stay at Kalyana Theertam, she is back in Chennai.

Read more: https://sidha-heartbeat.webnode.page/news/miracles-by-sidhas/

Miracles at Kalyana Theertam

27/07/2013 12:31
Agathiyar Shows His Presence At Kalyana Theertam, Thirunelveli, Tamil Nadu

Molly Menon from Minnesota, USA, made a pilgrimage to Kallar, where, without her least expectation, Agathiyar through Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal initiated her. She had planned to spend six months at Tavayogi’s Ashram but was made to return to the USA after a couple of weeks, missing the Annual Guru Puja and Jayanthi celebrations. She returned after a year to participate in the festivities. She made acquaintances with a Siddha medicine practitioner, Ram Subramaniam, who was introduced by Tavayogi. They together made a pilgrimage to Papanasam.

There started a trail of miracles and astonishment.

Just as Agathiyar reveals to his student Siddha Pulastyar that the Siddhas are in the form of Jothi, in the Jothi and as the Jothi, and as Swami Saravanananda says, “The body of such a Siddha appears to be a ball of fire or a pillar of fire”, Agathiyar shows a marvelous spectacle and reveals his presence to Molly and Ram Subramaniam at Kalyana Theertam.

Molly describes the event in her own words, “The latest clip, what you just posted...Miracles by Siddhas, I feel the words. Effulgence of light or streaks of beaming light can be used instead of the display of lights. Display means projection/presentation/something that can be seen and noticed...something very Ordinary... Effulgence of light or streaks of beaming light can mean...something Heavenly /Divine. This is just my Understanding, Shan...”

Just see for yourself in the following photographs snapped feverishly by Siddha Vaidyar Dr Ram Subramaniam during the precious moments of revelation. Words would not describe faithfully this majestic Effulgence of lights posted at https://apps.facebook.com/tripwow/ta-075a-2e7e-ece1?fg=1.

Swami Saravanananda had a similar experience of witnessing the balls of fire while he was keeping night vigils in the Pothigai hills. People here called these balls of fire the luminous Siddhas - the bodies of celestials and advanced Siddhas. The local folks say the Siddhas come out to parade their form in balls of light after 11 pm daily. 

Read more: https://sidha-heartbeat.webnode.page/news/miracles-of-the-sidhas/

These miracles are happening even till this day to devotees who began the journey holding on to Agathiyar's hands, in their own lives and on their own turf. This blog is full of such miracles. Dwell into it and find out for yourself.