In my heart of hearts I was deeply thinking whether I could be so fortunate as to have a photo taken along with Sri Bhagavan. A good and pious idea indeed! But, the question of its fulfilment was entirely left to the entire grace of guru dev.
People who visited Sri Bhagavan during his life time, could not have failed to observe the characteristic pose in which he reclined on his sofa with eyes closed and his head supported with his left arm, particularly at the time of Vedaparayana and so on.
In the year 1946, a friend of mine informed me about the glory of Tiruvannamalai and its sage. The photo of Bhagavan in a smiling posture was secured by me.
An old woman bent double with age used to go round and round Sri Bhagavan’s hall and finally go near Bhagavan’s seat and loudly sing songs composed extempore by her. Her spontaneous compositions used to pour forth effortlessly from her extremely devoted heart. She was not a learned lady, there night be some grammatical mistakes and errors in rhyme, rhythm, etc. She used to thus sing her prayers daily for obtaining the grace of Bhagavan.