Agathiyar had, some time back, giving us a memo, enlightened us on the Udal (Body), Uyir (Breath), and Atma (Soul), telling us that the soul choses our parents, designs the body and environment necessary for it to have certain experiences, to fulfill certain cravings, desires, likes, ambition, or to fulfill past Karma, both good and bad. The Siddhas too might throw in a few experiences that is deem necessary for us to learn a lesson or two. Sharing this with a friend over the phone, who was taking up astrology lessons, he then chipped in, telling that the chart of an individual is not ascertained during a reading but is already determined earlier. Writing a horoscope for an individual is not charting ones horoscope, but only reveals what has been designed for him. Another friend who came back from his first Nadi reading many years back asked me if his parents had given him his name, as the name had already been inscribed in these age-old palm leaves. When Agathiyar spelt out my chart in my very first Nadi reading in 2002, it did not tally with what was drawn out by two previous astrologers. How do we account for that? Then Lord Muruga told me in a Nadi reading in 2018 that he had changed my fate and drawn up a new destiny.
We concluded that the soul is the designer and architect of each of us. Agathiyar says that after the design and blueprint are laid out, the soul goes into hiding, after it is overshadowed by the ego that takes hold of us. The ego is a collection of all our desires, wants, and past Karma. Many live their lives living these dreams and not knowing their souls. Then, for some, the guru in physical form comes along to bring us to understand and know our soul. We then come face to face with it. We then discover the Self seeing through the veil of Maya. When we kill our ego, the soul takes command and redirects our life. Our soul then turns to becoming our guru. Henceforth, there is no need for a guru in physical form. On the very onset, Tavayogi had told me that I was living in Maya. He asked me not to hold to him but Agathiyar. Agathiyar, some time back, told me to even let go of him. His reason was that only then can we become one, Yegan.
Stepping onto our shores, and after having been invited to give talks at temples Tavayogi confided in me, asking when we (the public) were going to move into Gnanam. He did not fail to notice that we were much engrossed in temple worship and Bakti, or devotion. I had no notion what he was telling me back then. But today, after 20 years, I have come to understand that he was, in fact, bringing us from Dvaita to Advaita. Agathiyar, too, in bringing us from temple worship to the worship of Siddhas, finally moved us away from Dvaita to come to Advaita, merging with the One or Yegan, where there is no distinguishing between the worshipper and the worshipped.