Yesterday was a beautiful day of kids having fun and sitting in prayer. If my home saw the birth of Siddha puja being carried out by me after Agathiyar called me to worship the Siddhas in a Nadi reading in 2002, and where my family joined me after Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal in 2005 asked me to include my family too, with the coming of several youths sent by Agathiyar to watch and participate in our home puja, whenceforth my home took on the name Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia (AVM), I thought I shall bring the children to carry out the Siddha puja henceforth. And so they did a splendid job at it. Agathiyar came even before we began. He blessed all who had gathered and gave his blessings for the puja to proceed, adding an extra agenda to what I had planned, knowing pretty well that he would come to change it.
The kids began singing devotional songs that they knew and learned from school. We then had lunch, after which the momentum picked up. Lining the children up, they conducted Abhisegam, or libation, to Agathiyar and Lobama's statue. Agathiyar came in the midst through a devotee and hauled me and my wife to complete the Abhisegam. He expressed his joy in us carrying out the puja and brought an end to my question about whether the day's puja was the last at AVM. It looks like I have to have more puja sessions with the kids in the future.
Agathiyar requested a devotee to sing, which was followed by another, and the rest of the children, to the accompaniment of music that these children played pretty well.
Finally, he had me address questions put forth by a devotee whom he had prepared earlier.