When I was new to the path and accompanying Tavayogi to officiate a new Peedham in Banting during his visit to Malaysia, Tavayogi pushed me "on stage," asking me to speak about the Siddhas. I was a new kid on the block. What would I know about them? I spoke a few words about what I knew of Tavayogi and then cunningly switched to reciting the Arutperunjothi Mantra, which the rest followed. I did not have to speak further. But after traveling some 24 years with him, though I still do not know the man, Agathiyar has given me just enough experiences that I have come to share on this blog.
What is surprising till his last days is that although Tavayogi, who went around officiating new Peedhams when asked for by those who showed interest in running them, never once suggested that I start one, my home slowly turned into one, through the hidden hand and touch of Agathiyar. Then he threw in a surprise through a Nadi reading on February 21, 2026, proclaiming that my home was his Peedham, and its current status.
It made me recall Ramalinga Adigal's proclamation through several of his songs, all the divine states that the Divine chose to grant him. If only I could come up with such songs of gratitude and appreciation as well.
Just as Supramania Swami told me, all our efforts do not go to waste; all the years of devotion towards the Siddhas and their worship indeed did not go to waste. Although I carried it out, not expecting its results, but to fulfill the dictates of Agathiyar, after some 24 years of worship, Agathiyar spells out its fruits in this Nadi reading. Agathiyar spoke about the home being a temple and spoke about the Sivarathri that we had observed recently.
எங்களை தினமும் தொழுது தெளிவு தேற்றம் ஏகாந்த நிலை கண்ட மைந்தன் நீதான். மங்களங்கள் தன் இல்லில் நாளும் கண்டேன். மகத்துவ சக்தி கொண்ட இல்லம் அப்பா. இல்லமதில் என் ஆசி கருணை எல்லாம் ஏற்றமுடன் நீ காண வழி வகுத்தேன். இல்லமதில் எல்லை இல்லா அருளும் ஆசி ஏக்கமில்லா மாந்தர் வாழ கருணைக் கோட்டம். கோட்டத்தில் அடைக்கலம் புகுந்தோம் நாங்கள். ஆட்சியாய் வாசம் செய்வோம் உன் இல்லில் தான். ஆனந்தம் பேரானந்தம் உந்தன் இல்லம். உன் இல்லம் என் இல்லம். வினைப்போக்கும் குருமுனி பீடம். வித்தை எல்லாம் கற்றுவிக்கும் விருட்சம் அப்பா. அப்பனின் அன்னையின் ஆசி நிறைந்து ஆறுமுகன் கருணைப் பார்வை நிறைந்து மூப்பான நிலை அடைய வைக்கும் இல்லம். முக்திக்கும் சித்திக்கும் பஞ்சம் ஏது பஞ்சமில்லா ஞான வேட்கை தணியும் அப்பா. பரமசிவன் இரங்கி வந்து மகிழ்ந்த இல்லம். கொஞ்சி விளையாடியே மகிழ்ந்தோம் நாங்கள். அங்கு பல அற்புதங்கள் அதிசயங்கள் ஆனந்த நிலை அடைந்தார் சீடர் மாந்தர் பலர். ஓங்கியே சக்தி ஆசி ஓங்கி ஒளியும் ஓங்கி விதவிதமாய் போற்றி பூசை மகிழ்ச்சி.
Its translation is as follows.
"Through your daily worship of the Siddhas, you have gained clarity. We saw joy and bliss prevail daily in your home. It is a powerhouse. I have provided for my blessings and compassion to all who step within your home. Your home is a compassionate home. We have sought refuge and come to stay in your home. Joy and bliss prevail in your home. Your home is my Peedham. All practices shall be made available here. Lord Siva, Parvathi, and Lord Muruga shall bless all. Mukti and Siddhi shall be in abundance. The hunger and thirst for Gnanam shall be relieved here. Lord Siva has come down here. We played our divine game, and Lila here. Blessed are those who stayed for Sivarathri. They saw miracles and bliss that night."
He had previously told us about the benefits of conducting Puja many years back on 12.7.2010.
"There are many in this world who utter my name (Agathiyar),Prayers done truthfully (to Sidhas) shall gain many benefits,Prayers shall bring much joy,Prayers done moderately but splendidly and honestly shall help protect the world,Prayers done with fellow devotees will bring many benefits,Many shall rise in stature and power,Prayers will lead to a state of bliss,Prayers done on full moon days shall strengthen the Jothi within,Prayers will help remove doubts,Through prayers, one shall attain godhead,Strength, grace, and wealth shall be gained,Stay on this path of devotion, and the family bond shall be strengthened,All that is asked for shall be gained,Prayers shall lead to meditation and charitable thoughts,All ills shall be removed,God shall listen to prayers,Idiots shall become geniuses,The benefits attained from prayers are indescribable, for many changes shall take place."
Indeed, just in adapting Saint Nakkirar's prayer, as my prayer, God did listen.
மோனா ஞான முழுதும் அளித்துசிற்பரிப் பூரண சிவத்தைக் காணநற்சிவ நிட்கள நாட்டமுந் தந்துகுருவுஞ் சீடனுங் கூடிக் கலந்துஇருவரும் ஒரு தனியிடந் தனிற் சேர்ந்துதானந்தமாகித் தற்பர வெளியில்ஆனந்த போத அறிவைக் கலந்துஈசனிைணயடியிருத்திமனத்தே நீயே நானாய்நானே நீயாய்க்காயா புரியைக் கனவெனவுணா்ந்துஎல்லாமுன் செயலென்ேற உணரநல்லா உன்னருள் நாட்டந் தருவாய்காரண குருவே கற்பகத் களிேறவாரணமுகத்து வள்ளலே போற்றி
With the limited capacity of my understanding, that I have I provide its translation below.
"Conferring the Silent Jnana,Coming face-to-face with the final revelation of the source,Giving birth to divine desires,Hence, the Guru and Student merge,in a lone space, the Para Veli,locked in blissful knowledge,placed at the Holy Feet of Siva,"Oh Maname, understand that you are ME, I am you,The body is but just a fortress in a dream,"Bring me to the realization that all is your doing,Bring forth the yearning for your Grace in me,Oh my Guru, Lord Vinayaga."
All the above words that were merely words to me in the beginning years materialized later, transforming into actuality, bringing on the desired prayer to fruition.
Thavathiru Rengarajah Desigar used to tell Agathiyar devotees to ask the Divine for their needs. I used to take heed of his words and adopt his prayer as mine. Adopting this song that Thavathiru Rengarajah Desigar shared in one of his Ongarakudil publications brought me to the exact moment where Tavayogi took me into the woods, telling me that the Siddhas were ushering us and showering flower petals.
அகத்தீசா உனது சீடர்களாகிய ஒன்பது கோடி பேரும் என்னை சூழ்ந்திருந்து நான் விரும்பியதெல்லாம் முடித்து வைப்பதோடு மட்டுமல்லாது உண்னுடைய மலையாகிய பொதிகைக்கு என்னை அழைத்து வர என்னை சீடனாக ஏற்றுக் கொள்ள வேண்டும். நான் உய்வதற்கு அருள் புரிய வேண்டும். அகத்தீசா உனது அருள் பூரணமாகப் பெற்றல் வேண்டும்.
This was a prayer to Agathiyar to bring all the Siddhas together to grant all our wishes, and bring us along to his abode in the Pothigai Hills, taking us as his students. I asked that he bless me so that I could progress spiritually. This was my daily prayer in the beginning. The prayer was granted when I had to go back to India a second time, this time to visit several temples mentioned in the Jnana Kaandam of the Nadi. Tavayogi volunteered to take me to the specified places. As we walked through the scrubs and forest making our way to the temples, shrines, and caves in the Pothigai Hills, Tavayogi began to point out to me that the Siddhas were ushering us, showering flower petals on us. After traveling places out there, and seeking him out and coming to know him as existing equally in the Prapanjam, it was the travel within that subtly brought on the changes that Ramalinga Adigal sang about and that Tavayogi and Agathiyar spoke about. If the above was taking on the external journey, Tavayogi used to say that our efforts in going within would bring us only till Svadishtana, the second Chakra, and that we need the grace of the Siddhas to take us further. Indeed, after taking up the Yoga Asanas that Tavayogi showed me and several others in 2007 on one of his visits to Malaysia, this practice that Agathiyar described as a treasure, activated the sleeping serpent in the Muladhara that took two steps and began to pond at the Svadishtana, not able to travel further. This brought on much pain and suffering.
Coming through the Nadi,
- On 3.10.2007, they spoke on their amazement at seeing the Kundalini rise in me;
- 8.5.2008, that the many techniques taught and shown and put into practice had brought on excessive heat within, prompting the need to take Sattvic food that would cool the body, listing what to do, and telling me further that the colors of the aura will accentuate further as a result of the awakening of Kundalini;
- 30.9.2008, that the light from the third eye had emerged in me;
- 8.12.2008, that due to my Vaasi practice or Pranayama, the Suzhimunai and the crown at the top of my head had opened, and that he shall draw all the seven veils aside and have me see the Jothi, thus paving the way to reach the state of fulfillment and completeness that comes with the state of Soruba Nilai;
- 27.8.2009, giving me a further practice known as Tava Sukmam;
- 26.12.2009, that Gnanam has dawned on me and that the crown of my head has opened and that the third eye shall shine;
- 12.7.2010, that I had seen Sadashiva;
- 9.8.2010, that the heat or Gnana Kanal from the practice or Tapas had risen in me;
- 17.10.2010 that my health was declining and asked to see a physician who could bring it back to its former state;
- 16.1.2011, I continue taking the prescription that he gave me and on,
- 17.10.2010 for another half a Mandalam or 24 days;
- 9.8.2011, that I was in a state of bliss and that the graceful light of Arutjothi had increased immensely and in intensity, bringing one to reach Siddhantam and higher states;
- 26.11.2011, the Muladhara Chakra had gained intense heat, hence shutting my systems down, and my three Doshas, Vata, Kapha, and Pita, were thrown off balance;
- 15.2.2013, that my crown was open and I had gained Mukthi;
- 21.9.2014, that the chakras were functioning perfectly and that the Suzhimunai was opened;
- 28.3.2015, that I had gained his Jothi and had the crown chakra opened;
- 28.8.2015, that changes had taken place within me, and that his Jothi has expanded in me, and the Suzhimunai has opened;
- 7.10.2018, that my breath was dislodged and blocked in my sleep;
- 8.10.2018, that, as age had caught up with me, my spine and hips were tensed, the inner gel at these joints had dried up resulting in the acute pain I was having, coming as a Jiva and speaking through the Jiva Nool or Nadi, and simultaneosly coming through a devotee at the same time, treating me and removing my pain, by stroking my body with the peacock feathers;
- 5.9.2019, explaining the reason I fell, slithering in pain like a snake would, and that being a sign of Kundalini that had arisen and begun to move, churning up the heat and fire within, and that it was blissful at the same time, and that the third eye and the crown had opened, and I was partaking of the ambrosia within. That was the very last Nadi reading I had before the pandemic came on, and the Nadi readers went back to India.
While all these while, Agathiyar and the Siddhas spoke through the medium of the Nadi, during the pandemic and post-pandemic, they surprised us by coming through devotees to convey their messages, as the Nadi readers from India had returned home.
Coming through devotees,
- On 29.11.2019, Arutperunjothi took possession of us at AVM and opened up our Souls and hearts to receive the Jothi and allow it to come within and embed in us;
- 24.12.2019, that Gnanam was the art of transforming the Asudha Degam into a Sudha Degam and later into the Pranava Degam and finally into the Oli Degam, and that observing the breath was the means to it;
- 30.1.2020, that my breath was at Svadhishthana, and that it was about time it opened up, asking me to take up the practice that Tavayogi gave me in 2007 again which he had me stop doing when I was in pain earlier, to carry out the cleansing breath that shall touch the Suzhimunai and swirl and travel along my seven Chakras, awaken them and that after traversing these Chakras, when it touches the seventh, I shall know my purpose here;
- 4.5.2020, that when I reach this state, an energy that is Suzhimunai will come within without my knowledge;
- 27.6.2022, that the "Agathiyar Kuzhambu," a herbal preparation that detoxifies, which I took, helped in expelling the excesses in the three Doshas;
- 22.8.2022, that the stagnated "water" was released when a pull and a tug of a nerve was felt below the navel, bringing on a swirling sensation followed by a chillness, making the whole body became numb right to the tips, causing nausea and the urge to pee and urine and causing me to collapsed twice and added that it was blissful, though;
- 23.8.2022, falling again upon awakening where the body became numb from the shoulders down and laying like a dead log on my bed, not able to move even an inch of the torso from the neck down, though able to see, hear, and talk, and aware of what was happening to me; and asking me to carry out Nadi Sudhi to bring the breath to travel in both nostrils and raise the Prana, so that it shall travel through Sushumna and touch Ajna where then the Jothi is seen, resting in completeness or Sudha Paripuranam where Dhyana shall be ours;
Agathiyar gave a hand in snapping the knot and freeing the energy, breaking the bunds. The energy began to flow without any resistance, reaching the Sahasrara in the next few days. The flowering of the 1000 petals took place. When I asked if I should do any further practice, he replied that there was none and that she would do her work. This was, in fact, revealed much earlier on 14 March 2020, when Ramalinga Adigal, coming through a devotee, surprised us by composing and singing the following verse that describes how the Divine comes to do the rest of the work on us. We only managed to record a small portion of it as we were caught unawares.
................................................................................................................................என் பெருமானே என்னுள் வந்து அருளிய ஜோதி அது....என் பெருமான் அருளிய ஜோதி அது....திரை எனும் திரை எனும் என் பெருமான் காட்டிய திரை அது....என் அருள் அப்பன் அருள் ஜோதி அது...சீர்ஜோதி அது பெருஞ் ஜோதி அது... ஏறும் பெரும் ஜோதி அதுஎன்னுள் அது ஏறும் போது திரை அது விலகியது...என்னுள் அது ஏறும் நிலையில் ஜோதி அது ஜோதி அது...திரை எனும் திரை அது அருட்பெருஞ்ஜோதி அது...
With whatever little Tamil I know, I am giving a translation as follows of one of Ramalinga Adigal's songs about this journey, though it seems one of an external travel, but as Tavayogi told me, it refers to journeying through the Chakras. This was somewhere in 2008. Recently, Agathiyar came to say the same, telling us that Gnanam, which Tavayogi always spoke about, was not gifted but had to be earned through our efforts. He tells us that it was a journey of traversing the Chakras and arriving at Sahasrara, where Gnanam will dawn.
"As I walked on the Path, there was a Platform. I climbed the Platform. There was a Room. As I approached the Room, there was a 7 tier Hall above it. I cannot bring myself to narrate what I saw in these 7 tiers. In one tier, the silver Pearl transformed into Blue Sapphire (Neelam), in another tier, the Blue Sapphire became Coral (Pavalam). In another tier, the Emerald (Maragatham) became Ruby (Maanikkam). Yet in another tier, it became a Pearl, and back to Coral in another tier. Then, on another tier, the gems became Gold. All these gems became Spadigams in yet another tier. Above these 7 tiers, there was a staff. Climbing the staff, what can I say of that which I saw? There were thousands of Sakthis everywhere, who came to entice me, but I remained undeterred and strong due to the Divine Grace. Due to his Grace, I saw the Jewel of the Crown. I saw a Peak atop the Crown, above this, there were 1008 Temples. As I entered through the Arch at the Temple without hesitation, within the Entrance, there stood both Sakthis and Saktas in millions. They began to question who this trespasser was as I moved on. At another Entrance, there stood five; the others showed the Way, yet to another Doorway. As I entered, a male and a female showed me to yet another Doorway. At the Doorway, my Mother, the Goddess Anandha Valli, stood to welcome me. I saw her and submitted to her Grace, and partook of the Divine Nectar. With her grace, I saw my father's Abode. I stepped into his Abode. Who could possibly understand the Gift I was showered by my father, Lord Nadarajah?"
From "Makers of Indian Literature - Ramalingar" published by Sahitya Akademi, S Vanmikanathan translates this song as follows.
"There appeared a mountain of effulgence, and on that was a street. I went along that street, and in its center, there was a platform. I climbed onto that platform, and on that platform, there was a hall. When I approached the hall, on top of that hall, I saw a seven-storeyed tower. What shall I say of the wonders that were on the seven storeys? On top of the seven storeys, there was a golden pillar. When I beheld the pillar and climbed on it, what shall I say of the novelties I saw! It is not within my capacity to describe what met me as I climbed on. At several stages, Sakthi-s, in thousands and thousands, came. They came and tried to bewitch me, but that I may not be bewitched, I gained a power of grace. By that power, I climbed up that pillar and spied the jeweled crest. On top of the crest there stood a dome that I saw. On top of that dome, there was a temple of one thousand and eight carat gold. On seeing the temple, I went unhesitatingly inside the portal in the tower. At the portal in the tower, there were Sakthis-s and Saakthaa-s in crores. Their hues were white, red, and scarlet. There, all of them asked, “Who is this man?”, but I went past them. I went past them, and there, at a sacred doorway, were five persons. With them showing me the way, I went to a jeweled doorway farther up. At that doorway, which I remember well, there stood two, a man and a woman. With them pointing it out to me, I beheld with love welling up in me the private sacred entrance (which leads to the sacred presence of Lord Civan). At that sacred door stood Aanandhavalli, my Mother. I beheld the Mother, Her grace I received, and ambrosia I partook of. By Her Grace, which held me up, I saw the presence of Natarajar, O mother, I saw the presence of Natarajar! The boon I received on going into His presence, God knows it, O mother, God knows it. In the Hall of prime gold, the sights I saw, wonderful sights they are, O mother, wonderful sights they are."
Ramalinga Adigal's journey reminds us of the mystical doors that give way to the abode of the Gods and Goddesses in the Purana films. Buddha, too, was wooed by Mara with all kinds of distractions. My sincere wish is to see each home become Agathiyar's home and that we shall all journey towards the home of Lord Siva in the near future.