What is considered taboo in Indian society, Agathiyar broke. When children coming of age are kept away, pronounced as not clean, and the oil lamp is not lit in the home, Agathiyar receives a teen who was menstruating and heals her by touch. He tells us that that was a natural thing that takes place and asks us why we shun and fear.
When oil lamps are not lit, the altar is covered, and even television screens are covered in the homes of the deceased, Agathiyar came to pronounce to all gathered, as the last rites for my 96-year-old mother were conducted, that Lord Siva had come amongst us.
He came when she was breathing her last in the hospital, hurrying us to bring her back home, for she had another birth awaiting her.
Lord Muruga comes into the home of a lady who has just delivered her child and lights the oil lamp when it is considered a period of taboo.
Agathiyar came to save a devotee in a coma lying in the hospital wards, telling him in the Nadi that he was giving him his breath.
He came as a gust of wind and saved the life of a devotee's mother as the doctors gathered around her hospital bed, trying to save her.
Lord Muruga came as the mantra that was chanted by the caretaker of the temple in the corridors of the hospital, after he was pronouced death and was awaiting to be moved to the mortuary, for an atheist father who took it as a chore to sweep the temple grounds while his son prayed in the temple.
He came with Tirumoolar when my daughter was admitted for Dengue Fever, to help raise the platelet levels.
He assured my other daughter, who told him that she could not take charge and control what her children were served by others once they were out of her sight, that he would change the meat to something else.
When Lord Krishna asked seekers to learn from Agathiyar on fasting, Agathiyar was seen to cook, eat, and feed others. Returning to him, Lord Krishna reveals to them that Agathiyar eats for all of creation, feeding all the elements within their bodies. In revealing the history of his temple at Agasthiyampalli to Siddha physician Dr.V.N. Jayapalan, Agathiyar tells the story of his coming as a stranger during a great famine and feeding King Kuberan and his subjects from a shed on the fringes of the empire, quenching their thirst and hunger and healing their ailments too.
Agathiyar, in coming to us, tells us that he works miracles through food.