COMING TO UNDERSTAND IDOL WORSHIP 3

As the years passed after the arrival of Agathiyar as a statue, a bond and an attachment to him was fostered both ways. He appreciated the time and effort of ours in worship and we were delighted to receive his grace. It was a very simple means to gain his grace. 

Moving on to 2010 Agathiyar appreciates our move in bringing him over to other homes to conduct Kutu Pratanai or joint puja. He tells us that he will open his eyes and see those who chose to see him. This reminds us of his saying, "We shall believe if it happens says man; belief and it shall happen says the Siddhas."

He says he has come to stay at my home as a result of the worship done all the years.  He tells me to do his work. He was happy to see us garland and worship him as Ganapathy during the Chaturthi puja. He tells us that is the right concept and perception to hold on too. He tells us that he takes any form we wish to see him in. He asks us to pursue worship giving us his mantra. Agathiyar most compassionately tells me he will take on my karma henceforth. Tavayogi too most willingly told me that he would take on my daughter's karma when I referred the remedies mentioned in her Nadi. Tavayogi had on another instance agreed to switch a date that his guru Chitramuthu Adigal had fixed for for a puja at a temple, telling us that he will talk to his Guru, who had gone into samadhi many years back.

Agathiyar tells us that by continuous chanting and recitation of Agathiyar's name, the chant goes on without our effort even during other times when we are engaged with our duties. Continuous japa of the mantra enhances the uru or the spiritual energy in the statue of his too.

Agathiyar explains the reasons for the excruciating back pain I was going through in 2011, linking it to the tavam and dhyana that I was doing, which had resulted in extensive body heat and activation of chakras, asking me to immediately stop all forms of practices except Surya Namaskar and worship. He suggested certain herbs to balance to bring the three dosas namely vatha, kapha and pitta to its natural state. 

The following year he puts me on a regime to conduct puja thrice a day. He asks that I continue taking the herbs. Agathiyar says the saints will come within his statue and receive the puja offered. 

Moving into 2013, Agathiyar asks that I chant his mantra during Sathayam star and on Thursdays. He says the benefits of performing Hatha Yoga are attainable through puja too. He asked me to visit Tavayogi in India. This was the year were he performed a similar miracle as he did in Agasthiyampalli and Papanasam in 2005 - he opened his eyes in his idol! He is overjoyed in me spreading his path through my writings. Agathiyar says they come into my thoughts and move me to write. Agathiyar mentions the benefits in repeating the name of Muruga. He keeps appreciating the little things we do for him over the years. 

In 2015 he endorses my wish to retire early. Off course it was not total retirement. He gave me another job. He asked to continue Thondu and Seva full time. As a token of appreciation for all the years of worship at my home he gave it a name Jnana Kottam. 

Agathiyar says the idols and selected individuals are the means for them to receive and rejoice in the worship and devotion shown by devotees. He asked to attend his Jayanthi and Guru Puja in Kallar in 2016.

The following year the Siddhas carried out a Yaga Puja for Tavayogi so that he could survive his ordeal. Agathiyar says many have benefited through my seva. As we sailed into 2018, Lord Muruga too speaks highly about our puja, and other contributions. He asked me to step aside and let them in. The moment I did that all heaven broke lose. There was a torrent of rain in this case it was the divine coming down to our plane, our home and our body, heart and soul. Lord Muruga runs me through what to expect in the years to come including bringing up the subject of building a temple again. 

Agathiyar comes to enlighten me on the pain that recurred in my back after all these years. He says the breath had gone amok and haywire resulting in a recurrence of the excruciating pain. He suggest several herbs to take and apply in the Nadi. The following day Lord Muruga comes in the Nadi and simultaneously in a devotee and physically heals my back, narrating what he was doing through the Nadi. I believe this miracle has never taken place elsewhere. Its either a Nadi reading or a Arul Vakku by a shaman. Here the Lord came as a shaman and spoke through the Nadi too at the same time. Not stopping at that the next day Lord Muruga gives a recap of what took place the previous day in a Nadi reading for a friend. He suggest further herbs and ointments to strengthen my physique. 

Besides speaking through the Nadi the divine speaks through devotees if there is a need to make a point or to guide us. In the beginning of this year Agathiyar speaks about the temple that will materialize through their grace. He never stops speaking about the need to conduct puja. 

It has been a simply amazing journey. How can we possibly reveal these miracles to non-believers? They will only ridicule these events further. They will debate and contest wanting to verify and investigate them further. Many come to investigate others on the authenticity of their claims, not to believe but with a notion to proof them wrong. To them I would say rather then putting others under your microscope and begin an investigation, why don't you follow the path and gain these experiences for yourself. Why don't you engage in all these rituals, puja and practices and find out for yourself. But bear in mind that the results are not immediately known. You must be prepared to sacrifice your whole life towards this cause. Then you will have a story to tell. Your story and not another's.

COMING TO UNDERSTAND IDOL WORSHIP 2

How can I not come to the defend of idol worship when Agathiyar himself tells me to do it? Inviting me to his path he beckons me to have his statue made, giving very specific instructions. I have it done at Bronze Creative in Swamimalai; have an puja conducted at Adhi Kumbeswar temple; have him flown to Malaysia; and we gather with family and friends performing libation with nine items and chanting his name 100,000 times - all according to his asking in the Nadi.  

I never desired to worship his idol. I never decided to start worship of Siddhas? I was instructed in the Nadi and I followed without questioning. As simple as that. I carried out his desires. Hence it all fell into place. If I had desired them, I would most likely have faced numerous hiccups, delays, obstacles and financial losses. He saw to it that everything fell into place right from scouting on the net for a manufacturer of bronze sculptures based in Swamimalai, to switching the mode of freight in bringing him to our shores - from taking the ship as originally planned to arriving by plane instead. We laid our eyes on his photo only the day before his arrival, as that photo that was required for the airport and custom clearance, was made available to me too. He made known of his arrival during the maiden puja at my home with a handful of family members and friends. He stole the show, none of which was decided nor finalized by us. Now why would he put me through this if he felt idol worship was not necessary? 

On the day of his arrival, 2 January 2010, after he touched the ground at 11am, I was called for a Nadi reading at 12 noon. He shared a secret that day too. He told me he will come in the statue and that I needed to give him uru and uyir (spirit and life). He said he will momentarily enter my body while my soul will reside in his idol. He will walk this ground and bless those who came to receive him during the puja. Now why would he put himself through this if he felt idol worship was not necessary? 

Since then he came often to guide us through his numerous Aasi Nadi readings. There is a need to walk you through the pages of these Nadi readings now since it has come to pass.

Even before he chose to come as a statue to my home, he made me go to numerous temples on the pretext of carrying out remedies to appease/ reduce my past karma. To prepare me for the journey he started me on performing certain pranayama practices in the Nadi. I began to carry out certain remedies in Malaysia before leaving for India the following year. After traveling extensively to numerous temples he brought me to my guru Supramania Swami in Tiruvannamalai just as he had mentioned in the Nadi reading. Not stopping at that he asked that besides donating towards temple building funds, he asked me to build him a temple too. Now why would he direct me to build a temple and install his idol if he felt they were not necessary? 

Three years on he brings me to meet my second guru Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal in Malaysia. Agathiyar tells me to devout my life to his path. He assured that he will see to it. He sets me off on another journey. This time it is quite different in the sense that he chose the destinations and alerted me to look out for him and the miracles he was to perform, quite unlike the earlier journey in 2003 that was mapped out by my karma. This time I was directed to spend some days in the home and ashram of both my gurus, something I never even dreamed off. I was blessed and privileged to have Tavayogi take me along to these places identified by Agathiyar. He opens his eye in his granite statue at Agasthiyampalli as he had indicated and later to my surprise he opened both his eyes in his statue at Papanasam. He tells me that he is overjoyed by the simple Siddha puja we do at home. Now why would he perform these miracles at his abodes and temples and in his idols if he felt they were not necessary? 

I was introduced to doing charity or feeding (Annadhanam) at Kallar ashram, carrying it out for the very first time. I had the opportunity to stay overnight in caves too something I had never done in my life. 

In 2007 Agathiyar had the other Siddhas come through the Nadi too, beginning with Bhogar, Sugabrahmar, Bhrigu, Kakabusandar, and Thirumular. They asked that we carry on the Pornami puja  that ushers the Siddhas to our homes without fail. They tell me that an ashram life was not necessary as all the years puja had brought the Siddhas to my humble home. The Siddhas extol the merits and benefits of performing puja at home too. Agathiyar blesses me to write. The Siddhas speak highly of my gurus. Agathiyar teaches certain meditation techniques while asking me to continue my home puja. Bhrigu comes again to divulge further yoga practices and the appropriate food to counter the effects of these practices. He introduces the Arutperunjhoti mantra. He forewarns me of the bodily changes that would follow too. Throughout these practices he reminds me not to stop my puja. Agathiyar extols the greatness of the Light and starts me on worshiping the agal lamp. Thirumular extols the names of the Siddhas and defines them as Maha mantra too. Agathiyar tells me since man becomes what he shall desire, hence the Siddhas have us chant their names that will pave the way for us too to become them. Agathiyar recommends some remedies to be done at certain temples in India to soften the ill effects of the the planets. This is done by the Nadi reader as my proxy. Agathiyar reveals the time of his "birth" or Jenitta Neram and ask us to conduct his Vizha accordingly. 

Moving on to 2008 and beyond, Agathiyar shares his joy at watching me garland him at his temple, minutes before the reading, Agathiyar speaks about the treasure I received from Tavayogi, the pranayama and asana techniques he showed us on his visit to Malaysia. Patanjali speaks about yoga and the chakras and advises on my diet. Agathiyar speaks about the breath or Vaasi. Agathiyar speaks about my practice and its results. Throughout these I am told never to stop my puja. 

An indication of Agathiyar's temple was mooted again since its mention in my first Nadi reading in 2002. He holds talks through the Nadi with my brother-in-law to allow him a space in the Raghavendra Mrithiga Brindavanam that he was working to built. Agathiyar provides the specifications for making his idol in the following reading. He shares some meditation techniques and practices. Days before his arrival as a statue, Agathiyar excitedly briefs me about the benefits of his coming to Malaysia. He tells me to have a rehearsal of his Jayanthi puja all to myself at dawn before carrying out the Vizha in the midst of others later in the morning. The day he sets foot on this land he calls for a Nadi reading assuring me that all shall be well and fine and speaks further about his Vizha. After the Vizha as if conducting a postmortem on the event he sings his joy and appreciation for us in having carried out his directives. He promises me a gift in return in the years to come. Agathiyar gives me another pranayama technique. Agathiyar is overjoyed by the preaching and writings and the moves taken to spread his path. He list an extensive list of the benefits of Pournami Puja.

The readings went on throughout the years 2010 till 2019. In all these readings, Agathiyar asked us to hold on to puja never to stop till he says. Now why would he keep insisting that we carry on his idol worship and its related rituals if he felt they were not necessary? 

COMING TO UNDERSTAND IDOL WORSHIP 1

I received a query.

Someone asked me this question. I managed to  answer him. but still I need your opinion to furnish. Why do we need Temple valipaadu & Silai Valipaadu once come into spiritual path.

I replied. The Spiritual path is too large a canvas. Ask him where he stands? At the doorway? Taken few steps or covered some distance or reached the end? Now ask him how he will know if he has reached the end? Ask him who certified him as already having come to the spiritual path?

Temples and statues they say are for beginners. But for me, you have to revisit them again and again. Even the saints after coming to the spiritual path, and attaining the divine state, still sang at the temples and carried statues with them to worship. Agathiyar in his travels would make a lingam out of sand, earth, or stone and worship Siva wherever he laid his feet. That is how the Nattadresswar temple among many others came about too.  It is said that Ma Parvathi herself formed the lingam at the Ekambareswarar Temple out of earth and worshiped Siva. Swami Sivananda worshipped Ma Ganga daily showing arati to her. Is he less spiritual then? The Siddhas worship the very breath or Vaasi as God. Are they less spiritual? The Siddhas conduct Yagnas. The Gods and Goddesses are known to appear through the Yagna fire and receive their offerings. So aren't they spiritual?

What is he afraid of? That he would be less spiritual if he worships? There is no harm in continuing worship of statues and worship at temples.

For him, silai valipaadu and temple valipaadu no need anymore once we come to spiritual path. He said spiritual path is about meditation and jothi valipaadu. Then he told me prayers is good but not necessary. Meditation is a must. Im not sure how he can meditate without proper prayers. If can please write a topic on this Anna.

The Maya makes one thing he is spiritual. Maya clouds the mine giving a false sense of divinity, strengthens the ego, and makes one arrogant. The Maya makes one think he need not worship. Ramalinga Adigal who reintroduced worship of jhothi to the common folk, himself speaks about his worship having bearing fruits and results. One who is spiritual will worship everything, be it stone, tree, sun, moon, wind, earth, fire, water, air, women, men, child, etc. He realizes and sees God particle in everything. Swami Ramdas saw Rama in a beggar and a tree, hugging them the moment he came out of his deep meditation. 

Similarly I had a psychiatrist doctor question me about Agathiyar's visitation and darshan after reading my blog. I told him to come into worship and do all the things I did and know for himself. But they cite the reason that they are busy and do not have the time. Neither are they willing to take a walk with me. They prefer to engage in intellectual talk, continuing to suggest to me if it was all nothing but hallucinations. People prefer to talk rather then do. By mere talk about spiritualism I guess they think they have attained the state. Swami Vivekananda says one has to walk the talk. No amount of reading will bring one to these states. No amount of explanation and describing on my part about my path will make them see or experience what I have seen or experienced.  Now I understand why Tavayogi took me to the many places he had been - to bring me to experience these states. Now I understand why Agathiyar called me over to numerous places of his and showed me miracles.

Vedantha is the culmination of one's experience while Siddhanta is conclusions based on science (research and development). Agathiyar says we need to cover both terrains. What is experienced through the five senses is gathered as Manam. Buthi scans through the gathered raw data and identifies and separates it as good or bad. Sitham then decides what to do or follow based on these data.

The journey is long. If you have covered some distance and mileage on the spiritual path in the past birth your soul will not engage in what you have already experienced before, provided you have learnt a lesson from it. The soul will look forward to new frontiers and horizons to explore in this birth. It is then understandable if you do not want to engage in temple and idol worship. But that does not give you reason to ridicule others of their faith and beliefs. They might still need these stuffs. Soon they too will grow out of it, like we threw away our toys that we held so dear.

The four divisions or paths to Sivahood or Godhead are revealed in verses 270 to 274 of the "Shiva Gnana Siddhiyar Supakkam", identified as various relationships with Erai.

The first path Taatamaargam (Sariyai), or living in the world of Shiva, is also known as the path of the servant. Next, Sarputramaargam (Kriyai) or the ritual worship of Shiva is known as the path of the son. The third path, Sagamaargam (Yogam) or attaining the form of Shiva is also known as the path of companionship. The final path, Sanmaargam (Jnanam) is also known as the true path.

These 4 neri brought its own state of mukti or spiritual liberation (Moksha or Nirvana) respectively.

• Salopam or the rare gift of living in the world of the Erai; 
• Sameepam or the great honor of living close to Erai; 
• Sarupam or the exalted state of taking the form of Erai; 
• Sayujyam or the ultimate state of merging with Erai. 

Sivavakiyar, whom seemed to ridicule rituals and idol worship from the outset, himself mentions these four neri and its relative state of Moksha.

Upon entering Sariyai, Salokyam shall one receive,

Through Kriyai, Sameepam shall he reach,

In Yoga, Sarupam shall be attained,

Jnanam, these four, Sayujyam shall one attain.

When I questioned Tavayogi about the need for him to build another temple for Agathiyar, he replied that it was not for him but for others to worship. Agathiyar recently told us that it was his (Agathiyar) wish to build the temple/ashram complex at Kallar through Tavayogi erasing the thought that Tavayogi had desired it.

சித்தர்கள் தன்னுள் இறைவனை ஒளி வடிவில் கண்டு அந்த இறைவனோடு இணைந்து சாரூபம் என்ற முக்தியை பெற்று அதன்பின் இரண்டு ஆண்டு மௌன யோகம் செய்து தன்னுள் கண்ட இறைவனை பரவெளியில் உள்ள இறைவனோடு இணைத்து ஞானம் பெற்று சாயுச்யம் என்ற இறைவனின் நிலை அடைபவர்கள் ஞானிகள் எனப்படுவர்.

(அகத்தியர் ஞானம் 30, யோகி வே இராஜ கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி, சித்தர் யோகம், 2017)

Siddhas attain Sarupa state when they begin to see Erai within them as Light and merge in the Light. This is Mukti. After two years of sitting in silence or Mauna Yoga, they then begin to see the Erai within them featured in all things around them, merging in the Paraveli, and attaining Jnana instantaneously. This is Sayujyam and is the state of Erai. They come to be known as the Jnani.

The older toad represents the old and wise while the younger toad represents the young and curious. The young in their eagerness fall into lots of trouble, as does the young toad. The wise knowing pretty well that if it is meant for them it would fall on the path, wait patiently.

There is this consciousness that drives our breaths. It brings the living Prana into our lungs and leaves to arrive again and leave again. This is not our doing. It begins from the moment we are born till the consciousness decides to leave for good. Then we become a corpse. The warmth in the body, the twinkle in the eyes, the colour of the skin, the natural body scent - are there as long as life exists - as long as the consciousness stays. This is in reality God, that keeps us alive moment to moment.

Upon waking up thank him for many don't live to see another day.

If you are 60 years of age - thank him for many don't reach that age.

If you can have a decent meal three times a day - thank him for many go without food.

If you have never been warded, been a prisoner of war or in prison - thank him for there are those who never see the sun.

If you have a family - thank him as there are many left alone to fend for themselves.

Treasure the small moments in life - these moments make an event. 

Take in the world while your body is still fit - many drag their feet.

If you need only food to sustain - thank him for many depend on pills to survive another day.

Do not wait and desire for good things and the best to happen. Enjoy the present - thank him for what you have.

Just as he only gives that much of sufferings knowing that we cannot shoulder more - do not desire for more than what you can carry. You will have to come back again to exhaust the remaining desires.

MAN - THE CHOSEN ONE

Having taken birth and living a life, thinking that we should follow in the footsteps of others before us, we settle down thinking that getting a career and raising a family will suffice. There then comes a time when we would ponder why are we here? This question will arise when we move from Jeeva Sakiram or Normal wakefulness that is the 1st stage where one leads a mundane life without even a thought of its transient nature, to arrive at Sutha Sakiram or Perfect wakefulness that is the 1st state of the soul, where he then becomes spiritually aware of the momentary nature of life and becomes conscious of the world and external objects although he still enjoys gross things. (Source: According to Ramalinga Adigal as observed and written by Dr. C Srinivasan in his "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ramalinga Swami", published by Ilakkia Nilayam, Tiruchi, 1968.)

So why are we here then we wonder? All the saints have spoken that taking a human birth is the rarest gift. Swami Sivananda spells out the reasons citing a sloka from the Vivekachudamani.

Three things are very difficult to obtain. Only through the grace of God the Jivas obtain them. To be born as a human being is no small privilege. It is a very precious gift given by God to the Jiva. Having got a human birth, to have an aspiration for liberation is the next difficult thing to obtain. So, if one obtains both these, one is indeed doubly blessed. But having been born as a human being, if you do not want to know, and yet even after knowing that, if you do not know the way, you are not fully blessed. Therefore, if you get the shelter of a Mahapurusha, one who has known what has to be attained and one who is in a position to show you the way, you can admit that you are thrice blessed. This unique blessing has to be remembered always. Then alone will you be careful not to waste the opportunity. When you know the real value of a thing, you take proper care of it, and not otherwise. (Source: http://sivanandaonline.org/newsupdates/waste-not-this-rare-human-birth/)

We came to know what has to be attained in this rare human birth recently, through a spectacular translation of Agathiyar's address to the council of wise men and sages at the Tamil Sangam by Vashisht Vaid at https://holysageagathiyar.com. His blog carry among other revelations, Agathiyar's explanation of the souls prime duty and the reason to take on a physical body. Although I have shared them in several earlier posts of mine, the need is there to go back and revisit the 5 tenets given to men by the divine to carry out the purpose of his birth successfully. 

The basic reason for all human incarnation’s in a nut shell, is to gradually attain maximum number of spiritual experiences, which all such gathered experiences then dutifully prove to be extremely beneficial, for the vital conscious expansion of their liberation desiring soul [mukti ichchhuk atama].

This reminds us of Agathiyar saying elsewhere the need to gain Atma Balam. Hence the reason he told me that although I had wronged in the past, it was also his doing and that I needed that experience too, that shall bring expansion of the soul. Ma and Aiya said that our experience from the lessons learned on the Siddha path will become wisdom or Jnana to others.  

The young soul in Neale Donald Walsch's children's parable "The Little Soul and the Sun", adapted from his book one of three, "Conversations with God", wanted to experience the act of forgiveness and decided to come down to earth for that experience. The stage was hence set for the drama to take place where another soul he knew volunteered to come along and betray him so that the young soul could forgive him and see his wish of pardoning another fulfilled.

Annie Besant and Bhagavan Das in their "Sanatana Dharma" wrote,

The Upadhis are only brought into existence to serve the purpose of the Jivatman moved by desire to taste these worlds. The wish to experience is said to lead the Atman to form organs for receiving and transmitting to himself the experience. His wish lies at the root of each and matter obeys his impulse and obediently molds itself into a form suitable for the exercise of the life function. The jivatman is a conscious being and that consciousness seeking external experience fashions sense and sense organs for contact with the outer worlds.

We create the situation and the scenario allowing all our wishes to take shape. What we are going through is what we had asked for. We had asked for these experience and hence are enacting the role and taking on the experiences. Hence when we begin to understand that everything comes to take its respective form and place according to the wishes of the souls and the divine law of nature (God), we can settle down and accept all that is seen.

So should we let it be as it is and not interfere? We borrow God's answers to this question that was put to him by Neale Donald Walsch in his "Conversations with God, Book One", Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, too.

Never offer the kind of help that dis-empowers. That which dis-empowers is that which promotes or produces dependency. Never insist on offering the help you think is needed. Let the person or people in need know all that you have to give. Then listen to what they want. See what they are ready to receive. Offer the help that is wanted.

Tavayogi has this to say, give according to his nature and willingness to receive or learn. 

"Leaving them alone might be the highest gift you can offer when they exhibit by their behavior that they just want to be left alone", says God.

Why is having experiences so important? Bringing oneself to spiritual practices, the Tava Kanal or as Agathiyar says, "The radiant heat [tejas tapah] of these spiritual experiences, also greatly expand the holding sack of causal body [karanam sharira], making it possible for a quick release [mukti] of the bound soul [bandhit atama]."

Bringing the cosmic energy down to charge the causal body will heal all ailments in the physical body too says Ruzbeh Bharucha.

Ruzbeh mentions seven cosmic energies residing in the causal body (that is made of three elements, Param Akash Tatwa or Prime Ether, Param Vayu Tatwa or Prime Air and Param Agni Tatwa or Prime Fire), that is continuously charged by the cosmic energies in the atmosphere. Closest to the soul is the Param Akash Tatva, then Param Vayu Tatva and then the Param Agni Tatva. 

The causal body drives the astral while the astral drives the gross physical body. This is how we function. 

The Param Akash Tatwa or Prime Ether binds and holds and determines the health of the individual.

First, the disease attacks or gets ingrained into the causal body. That is because it’s the first layering of one’s body and also the most subtle.

Hence the need to care for this and the overall causal body is of prime concern to us and the divinity in us. 

Since our causal body reacts to our desires and intentions, strengthening the Param Akash Tatwa brings calm and peace besides good health. Since sitting in silence has the tendency to bring one to be filled with more Param Akash Tatva we have all the more reason then to sit in silence. For one seeking and working towards his goals of attaining the Divine state, there is a more urgent need to focus on silence because Vairagya Vruti or disenchantment sets in as we delve deeper and deeper into a state of silence says Ruzbeh. (Source: https://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/the-three-bodies-that-encase-the-soul-633928/the-three-bodies-that-encase-the-soul-425563)

And so it happened that Lord Muruga coming as a shaman through a devotee, dealt with my causal body and my excruciating back pain with a brush of some peacock feathers. What was extraordinary was that he was simultaneously narrating what he was doing on me in the Nadi read by a Nadi Guru. It was an extraordinary and amazing encounter and one that brought immediate relieve to me too.

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further explained to the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that,

For the vital performance of mandated righteous duties, which all are gracefully based upon the start up universal pattern of universal works [brahmanda karmas], vitally established by the separate duty five faces [pancha mukhas] of one absolute universal lord Adi Param Shiva, there are also five types of main works, which should be dutifully performed upon daily basis, by the evolving humanity during the given term period of their incarnated lives, of which no. 1 work [prathma karma] is to find out the very reason, for which they came over to exist in this human form life of planet earth [prithvi greha].

They all can easily find out that basic reason [moola karanam], by dutifully sorting through their spiritual books of evolving human societies, which widely exist in the shape of various holy treatise’s, widely scattered and easily available since the ancient times [pracheen kaala], all over this physical world [bhu loka] of planet earth [prithvi greha], as well as by venerably asking relevant questions to their learned seers, sages, and prophets etc., to help them find out answer to this most important question.

We were blessed to have Agathiyar and our physical gurus reveal our mission. 

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further added for the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that an incarnated human being after finding and properly figuring out his reason to be in this physical world [bhu loka] of planet earth, only then afterwards, should indulge in any type of work [dainik karma] for his livelihood, which work should also greatly advance his reason [karanam] to be in this physical world [bhu loka] of planet earth.

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further informed to the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that the no. 2 work [dvitiya karma] for a human being, is to devoutly meditate upon the one and only unknowable universal father lord, who apart from vitally creating his numbered soul [ankit atama], also gracefully provided him various quality attributes [gunas], to survive and righteously perform his various duties [dharma parayan kartavayas], toward the vital basis of manifested matrix [paripancha].

The great sage Agathiyar gracefully further added for the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that since then all the human souls got permanently numbered, for the basic reason of equal opportunity for all human vital existences, according to their already attained spiritual experiences, which they all dutifully attained, while gradually evolving from the lower kingdoms [mineral, plant, animal etc.] of manifested matrix [paripancha], so that they all according to their given frequency numbers, could also gracefully play out their dutiful human life roles, during the incarnated cycles of their reoccurring cyclic lives [reincarnations], gracefully working as the different duties co-creators, to vitally aid all types of spiritual aspects, in this ongoing  established evolution, and also get benefited, by properly fulfilling their five main duties during their cyclic lives, in this ongoing evolution of planet earth, and get finally liberated [mukta] for their further ascensions in the invisible ethereal web [adrishya akasha jaal], through gradually increasing higher conscious states of time and space relationships, till they all themselves finally achieve the two highest universal worlds tapah loka [brahmanda vaikuntha loka] and satyam loka [brahmanda shiv loka] of this infinite universe [brahmanda], and thus get spiritually qualified to vitally carry out much higher conscious roles, in the unknowable and non-explainable worlds of para brahmanda [outfinite universe], during their distant brilliant future.

The spiritual experiences increases higher conscious states in humans, preparing them to take on much higher conscious roles, we come to understand. 

As all his family relationships and all of the works related to his physical form, are still a part and parcel of this ever changing illusory matrix [maya paripancha], in which illusion [maya] some appears to be near and dear and some as enemies, while in true reality of this universe no one is a friend or an enemy, as all such occurrences are pertaining to previous life’s various actions and reactions [karmas].

Always at the end of a cyclic life, pertaining to the incarnated life cycle of all human being’s [samastha manushya], the embodied vital consciousness [jeeva atama] of physical world form [bhautik sharira], by forcefully leaving behind all so called life relation aspects of this dense matrix [bhautik paripancha], have no choice but to continue their forward journey’s, once again all alone, to move forward in the unknown and uncharted territories of higher or lower dimensional world’s [urdhava & adho lokas].

Under such anxious & wondering situation’s of lonely mind, the only one who could be truly considered as their own, is the "one’’, who is the absolute controller of this grand experiment, which ongoing experiment is widely known among all vital conscious existences as our unfathomable infinite universe [brahmanda].

Lord Muruga gracefully tells us he too shall be there to keep us company, even then, when he brings us into the unknown and uncharted territories of higher or lower dimensional worlds - at those moments when we stand alone, not understanding a bit of what is taking place in and around us.

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further disclosed to the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that the no. 3 work [tritiya karma] for a human being is to dutifully pay respects and obedience to this physical world dutiful caretaker’s, which all caretaker’s especially include their physical world parents and grand parents [lokik pitris], who tirelessly raised them right from their incarnated birth with unselfish love, and also to the lunar forefather’s [soma pitris], whose angelic hierarchies gracefully created their vital bodies and physical forms in their mother’s womb, from their father’s living sperm [shukranu] and mother’s living egg [andakosha], and also pay respect to all invisible angelic and demonic hierarchies [adrishya sura evam asuras], who as integral part of their prescribed duties upon this planet earth, also dutifully support  various types of life aspects, invisibly working among all incarnated human beings [samastha manushya jatis], upon this physical plane world [bhu loka] of planet earth [prithvi greha]. So it is an essential work for all human beings to also dutifully support the invisible co-existing angelic hierarchies [deva dals], through the prescribed offerings of fire sacrifices [yajna]. The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further added for the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that these fire sacrifice offerings [yajna] of various prescribed products, gracefully shared by oral and written down tradition’s, gracefully compiled by the inner mind wisdom’s [anahatha mansa jnana –vijnana] of the great seers and sages [maha rishis, maha munis], since the very ancient times [ati pracheen kaala] of planet earth, all of these offerings through the inherent fiery heat support of flaming frequencies, which all are a part and parcel of the material fire [brahma agni], vitally create changes in their embodying matter, and thus gradually release those elemental essences [tatva saara], from their embodying matter [bhautik padartha], to exist as the string type smoke appearance’s in the atmosphere of troposphere [bhu loka akasha], which elemental essence’s [tatva saara] vitally nourishes and thus willfully support the life cycles of all these co-existing invisible beings and entities [adrishya arupa pranis], whose vital existence is also of utmost importance for their own human survival, so that they all can widely continue without undesirable mutation’s, in their this current form of human existence, upon this significant planet earth [prithvi greha] of our solar universe [aditya mandla].

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further informed to the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that the no. 4 work [chatush karma] for a human being is to dutifully aid and help, the ongoing evolution of all co-existing human beings upon this planet earth, as all human races widely living in their differentiated aspects of sub and branch races, upon various continents [vibhinn khandams] of this physical world bhu loka]. They all actually got vitally separated in the ancient agamic times [agam purana kaala], by the immense oceanic body having deep waters of the one great ocean [maha sagara], upon this planet earth, and thus since then vitally living and gradually evolving in their various tradition’s [prathas], cast’s [jati, prajatis] and creed’s [pranalis], upon the far away places of this planet earth, which tradition’s got vitally established by the spiritual contemplation’s of their exalted conscious prophets, seers and sages, and dutiful works of god conscious avatars.

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further added for the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that the best way to dutifully perform this no. 4 work in this physical world, is to regularly and faithfully do charitable giving’s of at least 1/10th [thith] of their earned incomes, during the entire duration of their incarnated lives, making sure to give to only those religious institution’s [dharma sanstha], who daily feed the needing humanity, all day freely and with respectful love and care, and also vitally provide all other types of physical and spiritual assistance, which should include the free shelter, clothing’s, and health aid to all needy human’s, as all human beings [samastha manushya jatis] of this planet earth [prithvi greha] are the evolutionary children of their same one supreme establisher, the great preserver lord isha – vasudeva [hari vishnu, venkateshvara].

The donations given to other religious institutions, who do not utilize in freely feeding the needed humanity on a daily basis may get stagnated to germinate true aspects of spirituality, and get foolishly used in other wrongful purposes of making huge materially inclined buildings and empires, by the material mind actions of all those, who are in charge of dutiful spiritual circulations of these gathered funds, which can ultimately result in religious wars, and subsequent death and destruction of main stream humanity.

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further informed to the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that the no. 5 work [pancha karma] for a human being is to dutifully aid and help, the ongoing evolution of all co-existing beings and entities, who all vitally existing upon the lower levels of evolutionary ladder, also dutifully support the manifested matrix [paripancha], and many of the lower kingdoms, vitally exist like the minerals having precious and semi precious crystals, who also having basic aspects of vitality, also gradually evolve by increasing in their sizes, in correspondence to the vital energies of celestial organs of time and space relationships, and many of whom get gracefully embodied in various types of jewelries to be prestigiously borne as specific remedies by evolving human’s, and also various types of living herbs and plants of plant kingdom, especially the signature plants with magical and supernatural powers, get vitally planted gracefully in their house’s and in their surrounding garden’s, and various types of working and pet animal’s of the animal kingdom.

Besides helping sustain them, lifting their living standards and lives of fellows humans we are told to aid in uplifting all co-existing beings and entities, releasing them from being stranded and caught forever in the lower rungs of the evolutionary ladder too. When the animals, plants and mineral contribute towards the well being of the humans they move up the evolutionary ladder. Similarly we too move up when we turn towards implementing the 5 tenets for mankind that was revealed by Agathiyar at the summit of the Tamil Sangam.

Precious stones and gems are known to be beneficial in protecting and have therapeutic value as in promoting health and to a certain extend curing or controlling diseases, besides looking good on humans. We are told that some gems and stones are grounded and used in Siddha medicinal preparations called bhasmas and pishthies too. While most are obtained from the ground, coral and pearl are obtained from the sea. 

Metals too benefit us medically when worn close to our skin. The Pancha loka or combination of 5 metals, gold, silver, copper, brass (a combination of zinc and copper) and iron, is used to cast statues of Gods and Goddesses. Agathiyar at ATM is made of this combination. Today his statue has evolved from a mere metal piece to a living God by the continuous act of libation and with the continuous chanting and the years of worship that went into it and more importantly by his grace and compassion. 

Paramahansa Yogananda was asked by his guru to wear an astrological armlet and revealed the reason to him, "Wearing it as an armlet shall help heal your liver that will ail in a month's time, shortening the period of having to endure it from 6 months to 24 days." https://www.crystalclarity.com/yogananda/chapter-16/

The master explains the science behind it to the young Mukunda.

Astrology is the study of man’s response to planetary stimuli. The stars have no conscious benevolence or animosity; they merely send forth positive and negative radiations. Of themselves, these do not help or harm humanity, but offer a lawful channel for the outward operation of cause-effect equilibrium which each man has set into motion in the past.

The message boldly blazoned across the heavens at the moment of birth is not meant to emphasize fate the result of past good and evil but to arouse man’s will to escape from his universal thralldom. What he has done, he can undo. None other than himself was the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevalent in his life. He can overcome any limitation, because he created it by his own actions in the first place, and because he has spiritual resources which are not subject to planetary pressure.

Sri Yukteswar explains that man can overcome his fate and change his destiny.

The wise man defeats his planets which is to say, his past by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the Creator. The more he realizes his unity with Spirit, the less he can be dominated by matter. The soul is ever-free; it is deathless because birth-less. It cannot be regimented by stars.

Agathiyar says that placing one's faith on the Siddhas and the divine, the planets that otherwise are dreaded for its unkind influence on us turn to become gentle on us, taking on the role of a guru. 

God is harmony; the devotee who attunes himself will never perform any action amiss. His activities will be correctly and naturally timed to accord with astrological law. After deep prayer and meditation he is in touch with his divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection.

Questioning the necessity to wear the armlet, the master reveals further.

The ancient rishis discovered many ways to curtail the period of man’s exile in delusion. There are certain mechanical features in the law of karma which can be skillfully adjusted by the fingers of wisdom. He should say: ‘Lord, I trust in Thee, and know Thou canst help me, but I too will do my best to undo any wrong I have done.’ By a number of means by prayer, by will power, by yoga meditation, by consultation with saints, by use of astrological bangles the adverse effects of past wrongs can be minimized or nullified. This problem received attention from our rishis; they found helpful not only a combination of metals, but also of plants and most effective of all faultless jewels of not less than two carats. 

NN Saha in his "Stellar Healing", Sagar Publications, New Delhi, 1976, says "Gems may be used as a second line of defense against any disease and side by side medicines may be taken in order to get quick relief." Dr Gouri Shanker Kapoor equates gems to vaccine in "Gems and Astrology", Ranjan Publications, New Delhi, 1994, "Gems act like vaccines in preventing diseases" and adds, "It is said that gems came from the bones of Balasur while others say it came from the bones of Sage Dadhichi." 

We learn that the sun has seven colors in its rays that are essential for the life and growth of all plants, animals and humans. The sun provides the vital solar energy into our body, while the moon regulates such solar energy. The planets can raise or reduce the vibratory force of such energy. When any color is deficient we succumb to illness. By wearing a gem of the color that we are lacking, we can reverse the illness. 

Daya Sarai Chocron shares in his book "Healing with Gems and Crystals", Orient Paperbacks, 1995, his story. Having become interested in the American Indian way, as it seemed to be in tune with mother earth, the elements, and sacred, he spent years in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona learning new ways of healing, which were actually ancient ways, and eventually experienced a spiritual reawakening.

I moved to the mountains after spending a lot of time visiting and living on Indian reservations. I would take long walks, feeling the power of the stones and rocks there. I believed the rocks were guardians with many messages for me, if I could but hear them. While there I met a man, a lapidary, who was also influenced by the sacredness of the Indian way. He was deep in communion with the crystals and stones. Once he organized a meditation in a mine - deep in the earth. That experience changed my life. I truly felt the incredible power of the earth in that mine. We climbed down on rope ladders, lit candles, and in the dark deep earth, we chanted, prayed, thanked, and became one. A spark had been lit within me, and I went on to learn more with the Indian medicine women. They spoke of our connection with the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms, of our union with the elements of rituals and ceremonies with crystals and stones. They told of the stones' healing and spiritual qualities, of a way of living in harmony with the cosmos. They talked of the power and strength that is given to us from the mountains the sea, the sun, the moon, the wind, the rain. the trees. One shamaness explained the importance of walking softly upon the earth so as not to disturb other kingdoms.

We are reminded of Agathiyar speaking of Siddhas dwelling under the ground to the late Jeeva Nadi Guru Hanumathdasan.

"I became fascinated with the magical qualities of color. It is in flowers and stones that color is most perfectly manifested. they are soulmates to each other. Crystals and stones are manifested forms of light and color that carried the spirit of light and nourishes my soul. Nature has given us this wonderful form of energy - light and color - to sustain our minds and our bodies in perfect health." Daya Sarai Chocron writes further.

He gives us some insights into the mystery of color and light.

Besides the planet, the oceans, the earth and everything we see manifested as mineral, plant, animal and human, the etheric, astral, mental and spiritual planes too depend upon the same source of light each having their own rate of vibration. Color is a mode of differentiation of the primal light according to its rate of vibration. The highest vibration that of white light is not generated by any individual but is projected or transmitted to the aura from the cosmic source. 

He speaks about opening of the heart, something that Lord Muruga did recently. 

Love which is an opening of the heart, is an act of faith- faith in potentiality. Loving requires courage the ability to take a risk, the readiness to even accept pain and disappointment and the willingness to grow.

Now we understand why Lord Muruga asked us to submit to surrender wholly before initiating the heart chakra in us.  

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further disclosed for the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that all such above mentioned few examples of other visible kingdom’s [rupa pranis], who all during their own ascending evolution’s upon this objectively manifested planet earth, finally get vitally qualified to have a human tutorship, so that they all by being in close contact with the human race, being a part and parcel of the manifested matrix, can also learn about his evolutionary mind’s tonal frequencies, which gets vitally depicted to them through the tonal frequencies of their language sounds, and also through their vitally performed mental and physical actions – reactions, so that they all can also get qualified to become a human being, in some distant future evolutionary cycle, with the graceful attribute of an individualized mind and a numbered soul [ankita atama].     

It is truly amazing to listen to Agathiyar point out to us our role in helping animals, plants and minerals to rise up the evolutionary ladder, to become humans like us too one day, by their close association with humans. 

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further added for the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that thus through this no. 5 work of incarnated human life, every incarnated human being of this planet earth, also unknowingly becomes a teacher [adhyapak] of some or many members of the co-existing lower kingdom’s, who also being a part of the illusory matrix [maya paripancha], thus also vitally becomes a vital part of his evolutionary life upon this planet earth [prithvi greha].

Agathiyar raises each of us to the level of a teacher - to the lower kingdom species. By adopting them and teaching them we bring them out of the collective consciousness and free them.

Such a training from an member of the highest species upon this physical world [bhu loka], thus greatly help the vital consciousness of all lower kingdom species, upon this evolutionary planet earth of our solar universe [aditya mandla], whose lower specie vital consciousness till then vitally exists in a non individualized manner, only as a very tiny part of their collective consciousness group container [samahuit chetna kalsha].

It is said that animals that work their way to the temples and made to serve, work or provide the daily needs are almost at the summit of the evolutionary ladder, taking the next birth that of a human. R.Venu Gopalan in his "The Hidden Mysteries of Kundalini", Health Harmony, 2001 lists the various animals and plants according to their merits and importance.

Both the elephant and the cow is considered having evolved highly when compared to much work needed by the ant and the frog to progress to their state. In the aquatic animals, the shark heads the list while the coral reef fish lags behind. As for birds high on the list are the high flyers the eagle, followed by the cuckoo bird and owl. Lagging behind are the chickens and pigeons. In the insect world, the honey bee and grass hoppers top while the mosquito and firefly have to evolve further. In the plant kingdom, the Tulsi steals the show followed by roses and the lotus. The cactus needs a lot of catching up to do. In the case of shrubs, the Darba and Kusa grass tops while weeds and creepers are at the mercy of humans. As for trees The Neem, Pipal, and Banyan are considered sacred and Holy while tree with thorns are considered lowest in their kingdom. 

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further disclosed to the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that in these 5 main works of above mentioned group, which are supposed to be vitally performed by all human beings during their incarnated lives upon this planet earth, the no. 1 work is of utmost importance, as without properly understanding the main reason for his human incarnation, an evolutionary human being cannot dutifully perform the other 4 main works, and when by properly understanding his reason of incarnation, an incarnated human being [manushya] then vitally performs all these five works, then he gets a spiritual award of higher wisdom [rudra agni jnana – vijnana], which makes him vitally understand this basic fact [moola tathya], that in this flux matrix [chalaymaana paripancha] of physical world [bhu loka], a true love [satyam preeti] for any finite being or an material object, cannot help him in his true goal of higher conscious ascension’s, so his true love should only be vitally developed for the venerable grace of immortal controllers Lord Vasudeva ishvara [Venkateshvara]  and Rudra maheshvara [dakshina murthi], the two immortal lords of the two universal immortal worlds, widely known among all exalted conscious seers and sages as the highest universal worlds of tapah loka [para nirvana kshetra, vaikuntha dhaam, karam khandda], and the satyam loka [para param nirvana kshetra, shiva dhaam, sachcha khandda].

Through engaging in the above 5 tenets love and compassion for another soul begins to blossom in one's heart and extends to the realm of the Gods to the likes of Mirabai, Radha, Chaitanya, Bhairavi Brahmani, and Andal.

The great sage Agathiyar then gracefully further added for the gathered seers and sages of Tamil Sangam, that when such an true understanding [satyam jnana] of true love [satyam preeti] gets vitally embedded and firmly rooted in the gradually evolving soul consciousness [chetna vriddhi atama chetna], through his very tiny investment of personality consciousness [jeevatama chetna], in this nursery school of spiritual learning [adhyatamic shishu pathshala], which is also the most dense physical world [ati bhautik sthool prakriti bhu loka], of the three worlds schools [triloka pathshala], vitally established for spiritual learning’s [adhyatamic chetna pathshalas], in the segment of righteousness [dharam khandda], then the evolutionary soul [chetna vriddhi atama], after gracefully gaining the desired liberation [mukti], does not any more desire for salvation [moksha] in the next great world of enlightening wisdom [bodhi loka, maha loka, nirvana kshetra, gyaan khandda], which solar plane world of higher wisdom vitally corresponds to the universal world of intuitive wisdom [brahmanda maha loka, brahmanda bodhi or nirvana loka, brahmanda gyaan khandda] in our infinite universe [brahmanda], but instead want to quickly proceed further with an undiluted aim, and non failing attitude, first towards the next higher world of brahma loka [maha nirvana kshetra, jna loka, shramma khandda], which directly corresponds to the universal world of tree of life brahma loka [brahmanda jna loka,  maha nirvana kshetra, sharamma khandda], and then faithfully still proceed further towards the next higher solar world of radiant heat [tapah loka, param nirvana kshetra, karam khandda], which also directly corresponds to the universal immortal world of vaikuntha loka’’ [brahmanda tapah loka, param nirvana kshetra, karam khandda], and if possible then to also gracefully attain the highest solar plane world of satyam loka [shiva loka], which also directly corresponds to the universal immortal world of absolute truth [brahmanda satyam loka, para param nirvana kshetra, sachcha khandda, shiva loka], where he can gracefully receive all of the needed teachings, about the otherwise unknowable outfinite universe [para brahmanda]. 

By the mere association with humans the souls in animals, plants and minerals can attain a higher level of consciousness and be uplifted in the evolutionary ladder says Agathiyar. For instance a precious stone buried in the ground attains a higher status once it is dug out, cut and polished and adorns the human. An animal raised by a human gains higher consciousness by its very association with its owner. A plant, when placed in the vicinity of humans; used as a herb to strengthen and heal them; or that serves to garland and decorate the Holy feet of the divine; and is sacrificed into the fire pit during yagnas conducted by humans all gain mukti too. 

Just as we gain immense energy just by sitting in the presence of great saints, the beings of the lower kingdoms attain release from their current form into the higher forms in the evolutionary ladder by their association with humans.  Such is the greatness of man that we can work on ourselves and also influence and help bring the beings of the lower kingdoms to evolve into higher forms. Simply amazing. 

TALKING TO GOD

Neale Donald Walsch in his "Conversations with God, Book One", Hodder and Stoughton, 1995, pens down God's conversation with him beginning with an answer to a question of his and many others: How does God talk and to whom?

God answers: "I talk to everyone. All the time. The question is not to whom do I talk, but who listens?" 

There was a time when I was getting pretty hooked on to the Nadi, the Aasi Nadi readings where Agathiyar calls me in if he has a message quite unlike the Kaanda Nadi where we seek and go through a whole process of identifying the relevant Nadi. So it happened that there was a lapse of a year and I did not hear from Agathiyar. I got scared wondering if I had done wrong and the Maha Muni would not speak to me. Then he calls me for a reading. The first verse that appeared was: "I am with you always, why do you need a reading?" I guess I wasn't aware nor attentive then.

God too tells Walsch he is not talking but rather communicating with him. "I do not communicate by words alone. My most common form of communication is through feeling. Feeling is the language of the soul. I also communicate with thought. I also use the vehicle of experience as a grand communicator.

Today I understand why Agathiyar said in the Nadi that there were many wrongs I had done but it was also his will that it should take place and that I needed the experience too. Ma and Aiya too have mentioned that one's experience gain from the lessons in life that comes as learning to us will indefinitely become wisdom or jnana for others. 

God tells him that when feelings, thoughts, and experience fail, finally God uses words - and belief me his words can be quite stern and harsh. We have gone through that because we ignored all the signs he gave through feelings, thoughts and our experiences. 

God tells Walsch: "Words may help you understand something. Experience allows you to know. Yet there are some things you cannot experience. So I have given you other tools of knowing. And these are called feelings. And so too thoughts."

"Now the supreme irony here is that you have all placed so much importance on the word of God, and so little on the experience." 

God chides us for placing little value on experience. He gets through an important message to us.

"Many words have been uttered by others in my name. Many thoughts and many feelings have been sponsored by causes, not of my direct creation. Many experiences result from these."

Hence we learn that we should not blame God for everything.

"The challenge is one of discernment. The difficulty is knowing the differences between messages from God and data from other sources."

God questions whether his messages are heeded?  "Most of my messages are not. Some because they seem too good to be true. Others because they seem difficult to follow. Many because they are simply misunderstood. Most because they are not received. My most powerful messenger is experience and even this you ignore. Especially this you ignore."

God seems to be quite sore with us, "Your world would not be in its present condition were you to have simply listened to your experience."

God asks us to listen to our experience. "The result of you not listening to your experience is that you keep reliving it over and over again." 

He says he will neither force nor coerce us for we have been given a free will - the power to do as we choose - and he assures us that he will never take that away from us. 

But the reminder here for us is to use it wisely or be prepared to come back again and again to correct the wrongs. 

God gives Walsch a surety. "My messages will come in a hundred forms at thousand moments across a million years. You cannot miss them if you truly listen. You cannot ignore them once truly heard. Thus will our communication begin in earnest. For in the past you have only talked to me, praying to me, interceding with me, beseeching me. Yet now I talk back to you, even as I am doing here."

SELFLESS SERVICE

We have two wonderful souls in our midst. Both of them have taken the teachings of Agathiyar to heart and have gone out to find ways to bring solace and cheer into the lives of others. 

Bala Chandran came to the path of Agathiyar after having read the Nadi. He took Agathiyar's words as the Gospel. Besides the worship of Siddhas he spread the fame of the Siddhas in every possible way and moment of his life.

He came knocking my door telling me he was told to participate in the Pornami Puja that we conducted at my home AVM. He returned home to bring his former schoolmates and friends to the fold. He gathered them and formed a small group that they called Thondu Seivom (TS). As funds by way of contributions came in, AVM formed a working group Amudha Surabhi (AS) and Bala Chandran and TS teamed up with us. Soon we took the initiative to register a formal society called Persatuan Teman Setia (PTS). Bala Chandran heads the society with all his friends giving him the support as committees members.

Besides engaging himself in service, he has brought his family and relatives to organize and feed the poor.  

Meanwhile, Sri Krishna who was exposed to the path and ways of the Siddhas since young started to feed the homeless on the streets. We joined him and learned from him. Soon we took to the streets too supplementing the need to distribute food to the hungry. If earlier Sri Krishna and his wife cooked food and distributed it, today his wife came up with the noble thought of collecting excess food from wedding and dinner receptions, social events, religious gatherings etc and channel it to the poor around the Klang Valley with the help of his Food Rangers. 

If Dharma had eyes, it is Bala Chandran and Sri Krishna. May Agathiyar shower his grace on them and all those who come together in unison to serve and feed the hungry.

Sri Krisha's contribution was highlighted recently in the news and media too.

https://www.facebook.com/bernamatamilnews/videos/643364452819489/?t=2

http://www.astroulagam.com.my/news/article/112304/food-going-to-waste-call-the-food-rangers

RELEARNING

God comes into our life only when we begin to listen. When we stop talking and begin to listen more, then he begins to speak. When we stop listening to the continuous chatter that goes on in our mind then his voice is heard. When we sit quietly and listen to our thoughts go by without grabbing them, he shows himself. When we stop running after our dreams and begin to live his dream then he comes. In short, he reveals himself when we lose ourselves. 

Eckhart Tolle in "Oneness with All Life", Plume, 2009, says, "The cosmos is not chaotic. The very word cosmos means order. But this is not an order the human mind can ever comprehend." He gives an example - the forest. "Although one would choose to see only disorder and chaos in the forest, there is no distinction between life and death here. Everywhere new life springs out of dead material. He says only if we are still enough inside and the noise of thinking subsides can we become aware that there is a hidden harmony here, a sacredness, a higher order in which everything has its perfect place and could not be other than what it is and the way it is."

Eckhart says, "As soon as you sense that hidden harmony, that sacredness, you realize you are not separate from it, and when you realize that, you become a conscious participant in it. In this way, nature can help you become realigned with the wholeness of life."

Could this be the reason the Siddhas took to the forest to contemplate? Dwelling in the forest brought man close to nature and its laws. They studied nature and learned from it.

This sacredness in the calm and silence of the moment is God. God is felt and experienced in this silence.

How can we escape from the clutches of sorrow? When we learn to see everything as a whole. It is only when we see fragments of events that we react without knowing its cause. The Siddhas see the whole picture hence they understand why events take place.

Eckhart says "The universe is an indivisible whole in which all things are interconnected in which nothing exists in isolation. There are no random events nor are there events or things that exist by and for themselves in isolation. The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incompressible ways."

Could this be the reason we do Archana at temples stating our star or natchathiram? Is this a means of strengthening our star and showing homage to our source, our place of origin, from where we came?

Eckhart continues, "If you wanted to trace back the cause of any event you would have to go back all the way to the beginning of creation."

So if we want answers to our lives sorrows we have to be prepared to travels to the past and discover what we had done that justified these sufferings. Are we ready to face the truth and its consequences? Would not it suffices to understand the law of karma that is in place and act to rectify them without knowing the details of our past? Knowing the past might shock us.

Ramalinga Adigal writes of the many possibilities that brought forth his birth in his "Manumurai Kanda Vasakam."

“Did I create fear in others?
Did I hurt my loved ones?
Did I summon and tarnish others?
Did I stop others from making donations?
Did I smear my friends?
Did I sabotage my friendship?
Did I speak ill and gossip that led to families breaking up?
Did I refuse to help one in need?
Did I increase taxes and rob others?
Did I make the poor suffer?
Did I act unjustly?
Did I stop the means of income of others?
Did I entice others and cheat them?
Did I rip work from others but refuse to pay accordingly?
Did I adulterate the rice with pebbles?
Did I ignore the hungry?
Did I refrain from feeding the poor?
Did I expose those that had taken refuge with me?
Did I aid those who committed murder?
Did I scout and spy on behalf of thieves?
Did I snatch properties belonging to others and lie to them?
Did I sleep with those who had lost their virginity?
Did I abuse virgins who I had a responsibility to protect?
Did I rape those who already had had a husband?
Did I lock up birds in their cages?
Did I not feed the calves?
Did I sustain this body by consuming meat?
Did I poison drinking water?
Did I fell trees that gave shade?
Did I destroy others out of revenge?
Did I demolish public halls?
Did I not listen to my parents?
Did I not greet my Guru?
Did I not give my Guru his dues, for his sustenance?
Did I envy the learned?
Did I find mistakes in the writings of the wise?
Did I offend devotees of Shiva?
Did I offend the yogis?
Did I prevent the public from conducting their prayers by shutting the doors to the temples?
Did I smear the name of the Lord?
What sin did I do, I do not know”, questions the Saint.

Nature teaches us many things provided we are prepared to watch and listen. Sadly these days we are so engrossed in the hype that tugs at our senses and pulls us away. Guess we have to learn to let go of all our previous understandings and learn anew. In short, we need to format our drive (Self) and install the divine's program. But the divine took up that task knowing that we shall never find the moment and time to come to him. Agathiyar has come to cleanse the harddisk and Lord Muruga has come to install his program in us. As our parents let us roam the neighborhood only to call us out as dusk approaches so too when the time is right the guru comes to claim his student. We are blessed for we are the cow that jumped into the pond to save ourselves from the ferocious tiger.

Once upon a time, a cow went out to graze in the jungle. Suddenly, she noticed a tiger racing towards her. She turned and fled, fearing that at any moment the tiger would sink his claws into her. The cow desperately looked for some place to escape and at last saw a shallow pond. Barely evading the tiger’s reach, she jumped into the pond, and in the heat of the chase, the tiger blindly leaped after her. To the surprise of them both, the pond was extremely shallow yet filled with deep recesses of mud. After toppling over each other, the cow and the tiger found themselves a short distance apart, stuck in the mud up to their necks. Both had their heads above water but were unable to free themselves no matter how much they writhed. The tiger repeatedly snarled at the cow and roared, “I am going to enjoy the sound of crunching your bones between my teeth!” He thrashed about in a fury but soon became fretful as he found no prospect of escape. 

The cow thoughtfully laughed as the tiger struggled to free himself and asked him, "Do you have a master?”

The tiger disdainfully replied, “I am the king of the jungle. Why do you ask me if I have a master? I myself am the master!”

The cow said, "You may be the king of the jungle, but here all your power has failed to save your life.”

“And what about you?”, retorted the tiger. “You are going to die here in this mud too!”
The cow smiled mildly and said, “No, I am not.”

“If even I, the king of the jungle cannot free myself from this mud”, snapped the tiger, “Then how can you, an ordinary cow?”

The cow gently replied, “I cannot free myself from this mud, but my master can. When the sun sets and he finds me absent at home, he will come looking for me. Once he finds me, he will raise me up and escort me home sweet home.”

The tiger fell silent and coldly glared at the cow. Soon enough, the sun set, and the cow’s master arrived. He immediately recognized the plight she was in and lifted her to safety. As they walked home, the cow and the master both felt renewed gratitude for one another and pitied the tiger they both would have been happy to save if only the tiger had allowed them.

The Purport of the story:  The Cow represents a Surrendered Heart, the Tiger represents an Egoistic Mind, and the Master represents the Guru. The Mud represents the World, and the Chase represents the Struggle for Existence therein.

No matter how many troubles appear to be created by the egoistic minds of the world, who are themselves as stuck as the surrendered heart, ..the surrendered heart has faith that the Guru is always going to come at the right time to save her and take her back “home” - the inner happiness in us is pure and true home. So when totally stuck and helpless, when one has already done all one can and has no more means left, when every other effort fails, the surrendered heart still does not give up hope. She will just wait patiently until sundown.

Isaikkavi Ramanan explains the true nature of surrender in his talk. Watch from 50.35 minutes.

Guruve Saranam

BEYOND THE JOURNEY

Having trodden the path carefully the aspirant has now arrived at the Gateway to another wonderful journey of the body, soul, and spirit. Truman Caylor Wadlington who spent precious time with Yogi Ramsuratkumar takes us into the far reaches of time to get a hint of the evolutionary development which looms ahead for the liberated soul.

Time's gateways of rebirth plus immeasurable effort eventually carry the aspirant to the portal of one or another of the Seven paths to bliss. Only the advanced master and the liberated to an extremely high degree may begin to walk upon one or another of the Seven paths. The Seven paths is not the end of the journey either. The Seven paths of higher evolution prepare the great one for more intense work within the planetary hierarchy becoming a Solar Angel. But even that is not the end.

Just as there is no end to the evolution of the shackled soul, there is no end to the evolution of the liberated being, for as the Buddha said, "Veil upon veil shall lift but still veil upon veil will be found."

So even that rare and exalted being who has developed to the stage where he rejects his perfect body, vestures, and vehicles of consciousness and who merges his consciousness with the absolute does not in actuality terminate his evolutionary endeavor. 

Yogi Ramsuratkumar understood it all too well and said, "Emancipation was not the end for the beggar, rather it was the beginning for him."

Beginning from the supramental which was his first step beyond the intermediate platform which bridges the lower development to the higher evolution, through no effort of his own he was carried forth to levels above and beyond those vast and unexplored frontiers. 

Once the doors opened there began not only a growth of the consciousness but also a transformation and mutation of his lower being. This process was vitally important for it allowed him to constuct for his work a body of occult expression, a body which allows an adept to work through and with energy as the divine plan dictates. There was both a fusion of the human and the divine in him, and a reworking of his terrestrial form-nature to be an embodiment of divine qualities. Ramsurat has alluded to the fact that this transformation is a natural and spontaneous phenomena to all men of a liberated consciousness. It is the natural consequence of being open to the extreme force and magnetism of the divine.

We now understand why Lord Muruga ask us to open up.

The energies entering into the body manipulate the substance of the form with a purpose and an intelligence of their own so that the matter of the being is reconstructed into a form for divine expression. Through an intergral surrender to the divine will and an opening up to the superior powers of consciousness all is then suffused with the life and light of the supramental. Finally this divine reworking makes the form increasingly sensitive, conscious and responsive to the vibrations of the pure spirit ...

Over the years his very flesh and blood undergoes a total permutation by rarefied creative energies. When a man blossoms forth into spirit it must be done with every aspect of his being. It must be a material as well as a spiritual unfoldment. He transforms the purest and the grossest elements of his constitution and triumphs over the lower nature and the ignorant laws which govern it. 

Matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of the soul. The soul is the vehicle for the manifestation of spirit and life synthesizes and pervades the trinity formed by the three. He knew that without working out a total transformation of even the gross material principles of his existence there would continue to exist an alienation and separation from that which was, in fact, the host and vehicle of his high consciousness. In this way then the body which was a hindrance to liberation was paradoxically the key to the wholeness of his being.

We understand now why Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha puts forward the theory that "It is not the lack of the soul's presence that makes the body inactive and lifeless but the last natural and irreparable defect or disorder of the body itself." The nature of the body is completely opposed to the nature of the soul. The body is made, the soul isn't. So the question arises, "How can two things opposed to each other exist together?" 

Within himself he created a perfect channel of light and life between the higher and lower divine aspects and constructed a bridge between the world of spiritual life and the world of daily physical plane living. He now could function as a transmitter of energy directly from the spirit of the Monad, via the soul and through the lower nature. He could stimulate, vivify and energize all lives that he came into contact with be it seekers, animals or flowers.

This reminds us of how Ahalya was freed and came forth the moment Lord Rama's foot brushed against her stone-formed body. Damned to be turned into stone by her husband Sage Gautama, Ahalya was freed from the curse henceforth and turned back to her human form.

Ramsuratkumar's heart went out to the world. He understood fully his life and mission and he gave himself over to that work, work which was not his alone, but which was the mutual endeavour of all those who are the Custodians of the Plan, work which is beautiful in design and in conformity with the creative purpose of the divine. 

His became the joy of participation in the divine plan the joy of helping to solace a needy world of bringing light to darkened souls and in healing to some measure the opened sore of the worlds distress. From that moment onwards Ramsuratkumar's life was consecrated to the service of the world, conforming to the view that the enlightened did not continue to stay in solitude or keep themselves shut away from others. The saints after enlightenment came back into the society. The Siddhas too live in our midst attending to their chores and occasionally aid us when we call for them. Buddha after attaining Nirvana was in another realm and shown a thousand heads and told that he had to come back too.

It is a work that goes beyond lifetimes. As for us, for now, let us fulfill the purpose we came for. For now, let us do the task on hand.