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his spiritual pursuits and attainments, has shed torrential rain of tears in the journey on his path to God -“Suddha-Sanmargam.” To shed tears out of love to God is no easy joke. It is said that the valves of the lacremal glands in the eyes especially of women are so tender and loose that they can pour out tears even for trivial things. Even for them to shed tears out of love to God is not so easy. Tears have played a significant role in the life of Saint Ramalingaswami. In his spiritual pursuits; it is said that he used to pour out profuses tears. He has explained that spontaneous flow of tears out of love for God is but an external symptom of the melting mood of the soul. Shedding tears is the ultimate result of concatenation of events such as thinking and thinking. feeling and feeling in introspection, melting and melting with love to God in devotion. When this love swells up, tears will gush out and the rain of tears will flow through the body and wet the body and flow to the feet. It is said that Saint Ramalinga Swami used to shed tears even while singing his “Songs of Grace” in the melting mood. It will befit to narrate an event. There was one Vedanayagam Pillai, a District Munsiff at Mayuram, present Mayiladuthurai in Thanjavur District. He was a poet too. He composed some folk songs of the consmopolitan type though he was a christian by religion. He thought fit to obtain a fore-word for his publication from Saint Ramalinga Swami of Vadalur as he knew that the latter was preaching universal love and brotherhood and universal equality and oneness of the human soul. So he made a trip to Vadalur where he was popularising his philosophy. The Swami cordially received him. After perusing his songs the Swami obliged him with a foreword verse the next day. It is said that the District Munsiff was curious to know how the saint was spending his night time. 91