Who needs a Nadi reading? If you want answers, as in why something tragic happened to you and not to another, or if you are wondering why something predicted or promised was not taking place as told, while it was happening with others, then the Nadi would give you the answers. But for one like my neighbor who sees everything positive and leaves it to Jesus and accepts everything, the pain and suffering, the postponement and delays, and the disappointments that follow, she does not need any further assurance. Mahans and saints like Bhagawan Ramana and Yogi Ramsuratkumar, too, would never have had the need to know what was in store for them. Though Tavayogi, too, was guided by the Nadi at the beginning of his seeking, once he took hold of Agathiyar, he stopped consulting the Nadi. He opted not to read it himself, even though he had the Jeeva Nadi in his possession, which he used to read for others. He used to tell us, too, that we do not need to consult the Nadi, since he noticed that we were very much bonded to Agathiyar.
As a bachelor in the eighties, I used to find colleagues and relatives going through "hell," and when they were told that the very deities they worshipped were causing these mischiefs, I was confused since all the readings of religious texts tell us that God is all-loving, kind, and compassionate. How could they harm their children? On the verge of dropping everything, Lord Siva came in a dream and saved me, asking me to put on hold all my questions, queries, and doubts to a later date. That day came after 14 years.
I came to see the Nadi after I questioned myself why the predictions in my horoscope by the learned late Dr. Krishnan, astrologer, Siddha physician, and friend, were not working in my favor, while sitting in the waiting area of his office and sharing notes with others who seemed to be happy that everything was working for them as predicted. When I put the question to him, Dr. Krishnan replied that if one had curses from his or her past lives, it would jeopardize the present. Asking him if he could tell from my horoscope if I was cursed, he told me that it was not possible to look into the chart and the stars, but a Siddha could tell. That was the very first time I came to know about the Siddhas and their predictions through the Nadi. I left it at that as I knew not whom to approach for a reading. That was in the nineties.
In 2002, a colleague out of the blue began to speak about his Nadi reading in 2000. I remembered Dr. Krishnan's words and asked my colleague to fix me an appointment. After checking around, he got me a date, and I stood before the Nadi reader and listened intently to Agathiyar reveal my past, present, and future. True to what the dear doctor had guessed, I had curses that I carried from previous births that stood in my way of achieving the benefits of all my practice be it puja, yoga, reading etc. Agathiyar after revealing them showed me the means and the way to address them, sending me on a pilgrimage of temples and to carry out several rituals beginning with a Siddha puja or worship of the Siddhas. Taking up his call to come to the Siddha path, I took up the worship of the Siddhas further, which brought me to meet my very first guru in the physical form, Supramania Swami of Tiruvannamalai in 2003, and Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal of Kallar Ashram in 2005. Before meeting my guru, Agathiyar, in invoking Gopal Pillai, the Paramaguru of my nephew, to come through a devotee, had my nephew pass me the Vasudeva mantra that was to pierce and untie all the knots that were a deterrent to my spiritual progress. He told me that the mantra would facilitate and pave to way for me to meet my guru. Hence, if Agathiyar, in having me invoke the mantra and chant it religiously, helped me remove all the internal blockages within me so that I could land at the feet of my gurus, he helped me rid my past Karma and curses, by having me work it out in the external world, through taking the pain and effort to go on the said pilgrimages and conducting rituals, and taking on the pain and bearing them, all so that I could put it to rest.
My gurus took me to greater heights. After their demise in 2007 and 2018, respectively, Agathiyar began to reach out to us through devotees. Bringing both the word and the act together, he came as the word and as the energy of Lord Muruga through the Nadi and a devotee simultaneously in 2018, bringing relief to the pain and agony in me that was triggered by the opening of the Muladhara chakra in 2007 and the subsequent arousal of Kundalini energy traveling and ponding at Svadishtana in 2018. And with the coming of the pandemic, which saw the Nadi readers return to India, he often came bringing me messages through devotees. When things returned to normal post-pandemic, occasionally, he would have a message for me coming in others' Nadi readings.
In 2022, Agathiyar broke the bund, allowing this energy to make its way to higher chakras and, in a couple of days, to pool at the Sahasrara, bringing on the flowering of petals, ambrosia, and immense bliss that was the nature of Sat, Chit, and Anandam.