Other day when Shanmugam Pillai informed Vallalar that there is no rice to cook for the next day. Vallalar asked him not to worry and the rice will come next day. In the next day cart and carts of rice and vegetable came to the DharmaSaalai. The Person who bought the cart told that Vallalar appeared in his dream the other day and informed on the situation and hence he bought the loads of food.
Once in a dry summer when people are suffering with lack of water, Vallalar took compassion on them and asked his beloved members to pour water on his feet. The beloved members did that way as instructed. As soon as they completed pouring water on the feet of Vallalar lot of dark clouds gathered in the sky and gave very good rain. All the people felt very happy on seeing this. On hearing this incident the people from the place called “PuduPettai” who were suffering due to lack of water came to see Vallalar. They pleaded Vallalar to save them and told Vallalar that all the ponds, lakes and well have gone dry in their place. Hearing this Vallalar asked six buckets full of water to be poured on his head. As soon as it was done there was huge rains in PuduPettai and all the water bodies including well were filled with water and the place turned fertile. All the people with happiness praised and honored Vallalar.
Once when Vallalar was travelling in a cart with a beloved member to his place, two thieves with big stick in their hand blocked their way. The beloved member was removing his ring to give the thieves. Vallalar got down from the cart and asked the thieves “is it very urgent” and the thieves lifted their stick to beat Vallalar. Vallalar just saw them and the hand of the thieves which they lifted to hit vallalar stopped in the air and the thieves were unable to move their hands. The thieves also lost their eye sight. The thieves realized that the person they are dealing is a great one and asked for forgiveness. Vallalar took compassion on them and told “Pich” and the thieves hand recovered and got their sight as before. They circumflexed the cart along with Vallalar, worshipped him and asked again for his forgiveness and left.
If one gets the sight of Vallalar the person who takes meat will immediately stop taking Non-Veg food. If one gets the darshan of Vallalar his bad and immoral thoughts will vanish and they will become good people. Once a beloved member was asking Vallalar to teach him “Rasavaatham” – the art of converting mercury to gold. Since Vallalar was not heeding his request he kept troubling Vallalar by repeatedly asking him. Vallalar asked this member to take some sand from Vadalur in his hand. Vallalar then took that sand , closed his hand and poured it back to the hand of beloved member. What a surprise the sand have turned to gold particles. Vallalar then told this member “Just by the touch of Gnani who has no attachements even sand will become gold”. By this he advised this beloved member not to waste time on these arts but seek the grace of the Supreme Lord of Supreme Divine Light and when the grace of Supreme Lord is got even his hands can convert anything to gold.
TiruArutPrakasa Vallalar has cured many persons diseases by providing them with necessary medicines. He is also an expert in Siddha Medicine. Vallalar is also an expert in RasaVaatham. Vallalar will be visited by all types of people. Some came to get his grace, some wanted to get wealth, some came to him to get their disease cured. Some came to him to learn Siddha Medicine and some came to him to learn Vedas and Puranas. In this way people came to him with lot of wishes. Whoever sought vallalar were blessed by Vallalar’s grace.
In the village of Vettavalam there is a big land lord. He had two wives. One of the wife had incurable disease called Mahootharam and the other wife was caught under the spell of demon Brahma Ratchash. Vallalar went to the mansion of the land lord on the land lord’s request. As soon as Vallalar feet touched the house of the land lord the demon of Brahma Ratchash ran away. When Vallalar applied holy ash on the fore head of the other wife her incurable disease got cured immediately. The greatful landlord thanked and worshipped Vallalar by falling in his feet. Vallalar then asked the land lord to immediately stop all the animal sacrifice that is being done in the temples under his control. The land lord abolished all the animal sacrifices in all the temples coming under his jurisdiction.
The then Sankaraacharyaar came to win Vallalar over a debate. Sankaracharyaar argued that Sanskrit was the divine language and is the mother of all other languages. Vallalar listened to it calmly and agreed to the words of Sankaracharyaar. Seeing the debate of two great saints so many people gathered thinking they will get good information from their debate. Vallalar agreed with Sankarachariyaar that Sanskrit is the mother of all languages and stopped there. Then he asked the question when will a girl becomes mother? Only after a father comes isn’t! Saying this he told “Tamil” is the father language. He proved it with complete explanation. All the people gathered there felt bliss. The greatness and ancientness of Tamil was proved beyond doubt by Vallalar with detailed explanation that every one gathered there accepted it. Vallalar removed the clutches and influence of other languages on Tamil and proved the uniqueness of it.
Vallalar explained the word “Tamil” is Tam + il, Tam -> means self and il -> means being there which implies the meaning of Tamil to be “immersing in self”. With reference from Grammer and ancient Tamil literature Vallalar proved beyond doubt the greatness of Tamil and it is Vallalar who have spread the glory of Tamil throughout the world. Vallalar’s fame and glory spread far and wide. Vallalar songs in TiruArutpa were like nectar and the mind melts with devotion when one sings or hear it. So people started singing the song in front of the deity in the temples. Without knowing the excellence and greatness of Vallalar some ignorant and foolish people started getting envious on Vallalar. They abused Vallalar and started hurling insults on him and his songs. The religious head were in great envy and felt very jealous on Vallalar. In order to take their sin there came a person by the name Aarumuga Naavalar from Jaffna. He is the person with high attachment and devotion on Saivite religion. He criticized and insulted Vallalar and to defame him started a judicial case on Vallalar telling that his Tiruvarutpa songs were incorrect. It is pity about the fate of Aarumuga Naavalar.
During the appointed day all of them assembled in the Court room. When Vallalar came in after being called every one including Aarumuga naavalar stood up and worshipped him with their holded hands. On seeing this even the judge unknowingly stood up and worshipped Vallalar. Then Judge asked Aarumuga Naavalar why did he offer worship to a person whom he has bought the case upon. To this Aarumuga Naavalar replied that Vallalar is a pure devote of the Supreme Lord and hence he showed his respects. Hearing this Judge told that since Aarumuga Naavalar has himself accepted the purity of Vallalar being a true devotee and worshipped him then the songs sung by Vallalar will not be incorrect. Judge then dismissed the case.
TiruVarutpa were the songs sung by divine grace of Supreme Lord. They were sung by Vallalar right from his very young age. The world praised the divines and nobleness of TiruArutpa. Collection of Vallalar songs numbering around 6000 were bought together and released in 6 Volumes by beloved members in
the name of TiruArutpa. It is our good merit to have TiruArutPrakasa Vallalar take birth in Tamil Nadu. Because of that only we are able to get TiruArutpa.
Vallalar in his book “Manu Murai Kanda Vaasagam” tells about the things which will fetch greater sin on them, one of them is “Talking bad about a pure Gnani”. Vallalar who is Pure Gnani, Brahma Gnani and a great Siddhar of Siddhar was insulted by Aarumuga Navallar. Later Aarumuga Navallar died after undergoing lot of sufferings due to his body getting wounds throughout. In his last days Aarumuga Navallar cried telling “it is because of me having insulted a great Gnani, Supreme Lord has given such a punishment to him”. It is his fault for having listened to the words of Saivite Religious head.
Seeing the greatness of Vallalar the beloved members use to call him as Saint, Gnani and Swami. Having got the complete grace of SupremeLord and shining with Grace and showering grace on others besides with the intention of whole world getting the blissful deathlessness education teaching this deathlessness education to all and showering grace to all the people of the world Ramalinga Swamigal was called with love as TiruArutPrakasa Vallalar. TiruArutPrakasa Vallalar means one who by the grace of Supreme Lord is shining with grace and showering grace.
But Ramalingam did not like all these praises. He is a Gnani who is not disturbed or distracted by all these praise. Once a beloved member due to much devotion on Vallalar made an image of Vallalar in mud and bought his to Vallalar. This beloved member thought Vallalar will praise him. But contrary to his expectation Vallalar hit the image in the ground and broke it. He rebuffed the beloved member telling that he is trying to avoid his body going to the sand but this member has bought his image made of sand. Then he told the following thing which is a great lesson to the present world, “I have told you the way to reach the Supreme Lord of Supreme Divine Light but you people instead of following the way and doing penance you just praise me as Lord”.
“Only worship the Supreme Lord of Supreme Divine Light (ArutPerum Jothi Aandavar). Never worship smaller deities. Live with Moral and good conduct.” He wrote Nithiya Karuma Vidhi to explain this. “Do not do penance for the sake of getting divine powers (Siddhis) and waster your life. This body is given to us to enjoy the bliss and pleasure of Mukthi. The divine fire in the right eye which is sun and divine fire in the left eye which is moon should be bought in union with the Fire of Agni which is available in the place where our two eyes meet inside (Seat of Soul). This spiritual sadhana is called as Penance of Gnana. Do this Penance and attain the body of divine light. With your eyes open and with consciousness in the eye do the penance. For doing penance get a qualified guru and through him open the divine lock in the center of your eye.” By this Vallalar revealed the divine truth which is getting Gnanam through our eyes.
Vallalar’s humble devotee Irukkam RathinaSaami Mudhaliyaar, in order to publish the collection of Vallalar’s sons as TiruVarutpa, struggled hard from the year 1860 for seven years to get the permission of Vallalar. He went on fast by taking food only once a day and by this peaceful struggle made Vallalar to accept to his request. In the year 1867 in the month of February first four volumes of TiruArutpa was published. The first publications had the title “TiruVarutpa – Songs of Divine Grace from the gracious mouth of Chidambaram Ramalinga Pillai who is called as TiruVarutPrakasa Vallalar”. This is the first time when Ramalingam Name is called as TiruVarut Prakasa Vallalar. This whole world should first thank Irukkam Rathina Mudhaliyaar. It is because of his constant efforts for 7 years did Vallalar granted permission to publish TiruVarutpa.