ஐயப்படா அகத் தது உணர்வானை
தெய்வத்தோ டொப்பக் கொளல்

Man has evolved from the very basic form of nature, essentially the manifestation of the Primordial state, the God.  Man has the right and duty to evolve further from consumption of his basic needs to realising the self, the origin.  This journey of realising the self is always helped by people who have crossed the spectrum and are called as Guru.
Gur are self-realised souls ever loving and interested in helping people evolve, without any expectation.  Our Bharatha desa, India as it is called now, is filled with so many self-realised souls.  One such lived in Thiruvannamalai, the temple town, interested more on the inner self than the outer shell.  As much disinterested in material life, as he was immersed in the Atman.  He is our Seshadhri Swamigal.
A little far from Thiruvannamalai town is a place called Adi Annamalai and there lived a family man called Eashwara iyer.  He was pious man. He had a son.  The son was bright and intelligent.  All was good until one the son fell sick affected by Small Pox.  Soon in the process of recovery, the boy's eyes peeved out like a bulb and his eyeballs were not visible.  The boy could not see anything.
Eashwara iyer was disheartened that his loving son had to go through this. He consulted various doctors and treatments were done to the boy but to no avail of remedy.  The father did not know what to do, and he had ran out of all hope except one.  He ran to our Seshadhri Swamigal and fell on his feet and cried his heart out.  He pleaded that Swamigal restore the eyesight to his son by blessing him.  Swamigal was love all through and adviced Eashwara iyer to leave his son with him for that night.
To Eashwara iyer, it was like honey in his ears.  He promised Swamigal that he would bring his son to him, at this very moment.  Swamigal laughingly said, when I say to me, not to this me.  Take him to the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Goddess at Adi Annamalai and leave him there.  Eashwara iyer took the permission of the temple authorities and left his son in the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Goddess that night.
The night passed and when the day was dawn, the door to the Sanctum was opened after offering pooja and respects to the Goddess.  To everyone's surprise and happiness the boy came out rushing with his eyes back to normal. Now he was able to see and his sight restored and eyeball were now back in their positions.
People realised that Goddess Parvati and our Swamigal are not two different and are one and the same.  Our Swamigal was a living example of Thirukkural, One who knows his inner-Self without doubt is God.

#Seshadhri Swamigal