Visiting Tavayogi whenever he was in Malaysia, I used to sit and watch people from all walks of life walk up to him and pour out their sorrows. He would listen patiently. Finally, when they do give him space to speak, he would tell them that it was Vinai or Karma doing its part. Now, having made known the cause of all their sufferings, if they are willing to know the solution too, he would ask them to worship the Siddhas. That was all he would say. He never healed or touched them. He never handed out amulets or other symbols to be worn or carried around to provide protection against harm, evil, or negativity, and to bring good luck.
Today, I have come to understand that there is no shortcut or magic potion to shedding our past Karma. One has to either live it out without interfering, or seek the Siddhas for solutions through reading their Nadi, or come to their worship seeking them to show the means to soften its effects. One has to be strong to face the consequences of one's actions in the first instance. If we are fated to have a Nadi reading, which means that there is a solution, the remedies given will help in some way and to some extent. In sending us on pilgrimages, the obstacles and hardship we endure and go through in planning, and reaching the places specified, would have removed a large portion of our Karma. The remaining portion is dissolved before the deities in worship and prayer. We could also take up worship of the Siddhas and work out our Karma by carrying out rituals and Puja ourselves, drawing their attention and bringing on their grace. There is one more way in which it could be shed. If one has a guru and is willing to take on our Karma.
Watching the above short film, we come across a moment where the young woman pours her heart out to an older man. Turning to look at him, she then asked him,
"Well, aren't you going to say anything?"
The man remains quiet for some time longer and finally replies,
"Maybe, maybe it's just enough to know that somebody's listening.. I'm listening. Viper."
This struck me as the exact words that Agathiyar sent through my heart as I stood before him in my Puja room many years back.
Agathiyar, after coming as a statue to my home, began his Lila or Divine play. The day he arrived, 2.2.2010, he told me in my Nadi reading that he would come into me while my soul would enter his statue the next day, where I had called over family and friends to celebrate his Annual Jayanthi celebrations simultaneously with the celebrations that went on in Tavayogi's Kallar Ashram, something Tavayogi had asked me to follow too.
Soon, he began to come whenever he sent strangers to us, but obviously, people whom he knew he could help, over to our house. But things got out of hand when my wife and I, who were good listeners, began to advise them out of sympathy towards their troubles. I turned to Tavayogi for advice. Tavayogi, as usual run me down for my actions over the phone, asking why we involved, telling us to show them to Agathiyar. My wife and I appealed to Agathiyar to put a stop to it. He did. He listened to us. No one came around knocking on our door. Then one day, when I entered his room, I heard him ask me, "Why would I go if he were to shut his ears?" Off Course! Indeed! I pour out all my sorrows to him, and he listens. That made me realize that he wants us to listen.
My wife and I gave in to his call, allowing strangers and visitors into our home again. Agathiyar did wonders with them. Many went back relieved of their sorrow and worry, illness, disease, problems, and troubles. If in the initial years he summoned those with these issues, in the later years, he brought spiritual seekers who had been to places but were yet lost and hurt. He mended their hearts and souls and set them free. Then, finally, he brought the shutters down in the wake of the pandemic and had the AVM family bring the tools and the methods into their homes and conduct Puja on their own. As for me, he had me go within. Post-pandemic, he gathered a few and had me teach Mahindren and have Mahindren teach them the Asanas and Pranayama techniques that Tavayogi taught me. Further to that, Agathiyar began to speak on Gnanam, revealing and clarifying the misunderstanding that prevailed in matters close to the Siddhas. Finally it was time for all to become silent and go within. He called on all visitors to meditate. This is the journey of Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia to date.