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a life-long devotee of saint Ramalingam and has published a work on this nineteenth century saint. Those who have read Ramalingam's Tiruarutpa will recall his moving appreciation of the Tiruvacagam. Ramalingam gives us all a clue regarding the way we should go through devotional poetry. We have to become one with the poet and sing the songs, entering into their very spirit. In such a state the words become vibrant with the Divine Presence. Dr. Srinivasan endeavours to share his experience of singing the Tiruvacagam, immersing himself in its spirit with those interested in religious classics. He has given the Tamil text with an English rendering with abstracts of each of the poems and brief explanatory notes of the titles. He has arranged the fifty-one poems of the Tiruvacagam into four parts. - The constant study of the Tiruvacagam has been a part of Dr. Srinivasan's saadhana (spinitual exercise). May it be such for those who read his present work! Madras -- JZA. DEJZ4SENAPATHI 29th July 1985 XVIII