Who needs a Nadi reading? If you want answers, as in why something tragic happened to you and not to another, or if you are wondering why something predicted or promised was not taking place as told, then the Nadi would give you the answers. But for one like my neighbor who leaves it to Jesus and accepts everything, the pain and suffering, the postponement and delays, and the disappointments that follow, she does not need any further assurance. Though Tavayogi, too, was guided by the Nadi at the beginning of his seeking, once he took hold of Agathiyar, he stopped consulting the Nadi. He opted not to read it for himself, even though he had the Jeeva Nadi in his possession that he used to read for others. He used to tell us, too, that we do not need to consult the Nadi, since we are very much bonded to Agathiyar. Mahans and saints like Bhagawan Ramana and Yogi Ramsuratkumar, too, would never have had the need to know what was in store for them.
I came to see the Nadi after a question came up as to why the predictions in my horoscope by the learned late Dr.Krishnan, astrologer, Siddha physician, and friend, were not working in my favor. When I put the question to him, he replied that if one had curses from his or her past lives, it would jeopardize the present. Asking him if he could tell if I was cursed, he told me that it was not possible to look into the chart and the stars, but a Siddha could tell. That was the very first time I came to know about the Siddhas and their predictions through the Nadi. I left it at that. That was in the nineties. In 2002, a colleague out of the blue began to speak about his Nadi reading in 2000. I remembered Dr.Krishnan's words and asked him to fix me an appointment. After checking around, he got me a date, and I stood before the Nadi reader and listened intently to Agathiyar reveal my past, present, and future. True to what the dear doctor had guessed, I had curses that I carried from previous births that stood in my way of achieving the benefits of all my practice be it puja, yoga, reading etc. Agathiyar after revealing them showed me the means and the way to address them, sending me on a pilgrimage of temples and to carry out several rituals beginning with a Siddha puja or worship of the Siddhas. Taking up his call to come to the Siddha path, I took up the worship of the Siddhas further, which brought me to meet my very first guru in the physical form, Supramania Swami of Tiruvannamalai in 2003, and Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal of Kallar Ashram in 2005. Before meeting my guru, Agathiyar, in invoking Gopal Pillai, the Paramaguru of my nephew, to come through a devotee, he had my nephew pass me the Vasudeva mantra that was to pierce and untie all the knots that were a deterrent to my spiritual progress. Hence, if he rid me of my past Karma and curses, by having me work it out in the external world, through taking the effort to go on pilgrimages and conducting rituals, taking the pain tand taking on the pain and bearing them, all to put it to rest; in invoking the mantra and chanting it religiously, he helped me remove all the blockages within me so that I could land at the feet of my gurus. My gurus took me to greater heights. After their demise in 2007 and 2018, respectively, Agathiyar began to reach out to us through devotees. Occasionally, he would have a message for me coming in others' Nadi readings. Bringing both the word and the act together, he came as the word and as the energy of Lord Muruga through the Nadi and a devotee simultaneously in 2018, bringing relief to the pain and agony in me that was triggered by the opening of the Muladhara chakra in 2007 and the subsequent arousal of Kundalini energy traveling and ponding at Svadishtana in 2018. In 2022, he broke the bund, allowing this energy to make its way to higher chakras and, in a couple of days, to pool at the Sahasrara, bringing on the flowering of petals, ambrosia, and immense bliss that was the nature of Sat, Chit, and Anandam.