A Muslim Devotee
In the month of January of 1926, Swamigal stopped for day at Karambakudi on the way to Rajamatam for taking a bath in the ocean on the occasion of solar eclipse. When he was leaving Karambakudi to go to Pattukottai, the local citizens gathered in great numbers, at the outskirts of the town, to send him off. There were some muslims in the crowd gathered there. One muslim gentleman carried the palanquin and walked for more than three miles. Swamigal requested the palanquin to stop and called the muslim gentleman to come close to him. The muslim gentleman conveyed his personal information and details and offered the songs he had composed on Swamigal as well as a flower garland, fruits, hard sugar cubes, perfumes and gold at Swamigal’s feet. Swamigal accepted all the offerings with compassion and asked him to read the songs that he had composed, which the muslim gentleman did and explained its meaning also. Swamigal
was listening to the songs with his usual smile. The muslim gentleman was silent for some time. He later looked at Swamigal with tears of happiness pouring from his eyes and said, “Swamigal appears to my eyes in the form of Allah himself. A human being has to just have darshan of saints like Swamigal in order to let go of worldly desires.
Swamigal should lead a long life and provide darshan to devotees. I came running with the palanquin for such a long way in order to have ekanta ( in isolation) darshan of Swamigal”. His eyes reflected the bhakthi of a true devotee. Swamigal gave him leave with his blessings and compassion.
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