I am back, readers. I had to summarize the path before I take a break. Since my purpose was to follow the path, live it, and eventually share the goodness, benefits, and reasons with readers to encourage them to take up the path as well, I will provide a brief summary.
Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal was asked to start an Ashram cum temple for Agathiyar and the Siddhas after he came out of his long years of Tavam or austerities and wandering, and was asked to come to Malaysia in 2005, and spread the good word to us too, officiating Peedhams and taking the stage to address the audience. I was one of those who stood before him. When one Mr.Bala asked me the reason for meeting Tavayogi, I had no reason. I was just prompted to meet him after receiving a leaflet from the Nadi reader in 2002, which mentioned Tavayogi's intent to build a temple/ashram for Agathiyar, unlike the many who came to the Siddhas, according to Mr.Bala, with problems. Soon as I frequented the Peedham where he was staying during his duration and stay in Malaysia, and sat in the presence of Tavayogi, I saw the truth in Mr.Bala's words. Many indeed came with problems, some beyond our imagination. Tavayogi would listen patiently when they came before him with problems, some speaking for hours on end, and would point out that it was their past conduct and acts or Vinai or Karma acting on them now, and ask them to worship the Siddhas.
As if to answer the questions and doubts I had about whether God was truly loving and compassionate, and the reason he had me take a long break, ending my home and temple worship, and all reading for 14 years, Agathiyar, called me to the worship of the Siddhas in my very first Nadi reading itself in 2002. He spoke about Karma and its action on us, enlightening me on why people suffer. He gave me remedies for my past Karma too. Agathiyar had the Nadi reader conduct a Siddha worship, pass me the booklet that carried the names of the Siddhas published by Tavayogi, and a painting of Agathiyar given by Sivabalan, who brought the reader in from India, starting me off on my journey of further discovery. Armed with these, I began my home puja. Agathiyar had me begin my home worship by reciting Lord Ganesha's mantra, and had me worship Lord Siva too, besides the worship of the Siddhas. I did as told.
Hungry to know more about the Siddha worship, I knocked on the doors of numerous movements, Peedhams, and centers associated with Agathiyar, some existing since the eighties, but returned disappointed as none carried puja or worship, but instead held talks, did charity, and meditation. I turned to books on the Siddhas, which I went around looking for at the book stores. I continued my home puja, gathering more songs from these books and the net.
Agathiyar then sent Tavayogi to our shores, where I met him in 2005. Although he asked that I frequent the Peedham that he came to officiate, Agathiyar had other plans for me. In a subsequent Nadi reading, Agathiyar asked that I get initiated by Tavayogi again and visit his ashram to learn further. I did as told. Thus, I came under his wings, shadow, and his mentorship. Thus began a wonderful relationship between a guru and a disciple that is still intact even after Tavayogi shed his mortal frame on 3 July 2018.
Then Agathiyar came as a bronze statue, in 2010, originally intending to go to the Sri Raghavendra Mritiga Brindavanam Kinta in Ipoh, which was being constructed, but decided to stay put in my home. He sent many youths to my home in 2013 to watch and participate in our puja at my home, which took on the name Agathiyar Vanam Malaysia (AVM). I came to know later, from the "Soul Contract Reading" of mine, that reaffirmed my purpose as that of a Spiritual Catalyst, for them and others who followed.
In carrying out Puja and charity with these souls, we have come to fulfill Agathiyar's 5 tenets for mankind too, as Vashisht Vaid wrote in his blog at https://holysageagathiyar.com/
1. Agathiyar says that man has to first and foremost understand his purpose in taking birth.
2. With his purpose known then, he should come to thank the divine creator or energy that brought forth his birth (through consultation with the lunar forefathers and their angelic hierarchies that co-exist with us down here).
3. He asks that we then thank all the caretakers, both seen and unseen, in the present and the past.
4. There arises then an obligation on our part to "dutifully aid and help, the ongoing evolution of all co-existing human beings."
5. The final task is to extend this aid and help towards "the ongoing evolution of all co-existing beings and entities, existing upon the lower levels of the evolutionary ladder, dutifully supporting the manifested matrix or prapanjam."
(Summarized from Vashisht Vaid's post on his blog https://holysageagathiyar.com/ )
Just as I thought, I could now take a break from it all, I remembered that I had called a gathering of children and intend to have them perform the rituals and sing the praise of the Siddhas on 1 May 2026. As I now need to bring these kids to his fold after having brought the youths earlier, so it looks like I shall be around for some time.