Yoga Swamigal of Nallur – His Natchinthanai

Sri Lanka is definitely a blessed land to have Yoga Swami. The sage from Nallur has given நற்சிந்தனை (Good thoughts) a collection of prayer songs which he composed and made his devotees who came to him to sing.

In நற்சிந்தனை there is an appeal from Yogaswami to contribute 3 Rupees per year (it must be before 1950s) to do சிவதொண்டு . How many are aware of this? And how many make a contribution to do சிவதொண்டு ? Each and every Sri Lankan should think on these lines when they spend on their birthday parties or marriage parties or numerous other parties which they have invented out of the British ‘educational qualification’ they want to parade proudly . In this connection could remember how when a devotee introduced his daughter who came after completing M.A from an Indian (of another British system) University, Yogaswami had said I will give another letter for your studies which you can have and added D to her degrees(MAD).

In another song in நற்சிந்தனை, Yogaswami also says not to see any difference as Tamil or Sinhalese and also not to fight. Did Tamils and Sinhalese ever know of these lines? Instead they have lost thousands of lives and is there any effort to translate Natchinthanai to Sinhala? Even though the English have done much damage, they have learnt greatness of Yogaswami and Natchinthanai and there is a translation of many of Natchinthanai in English. Bharathiyar lines when he says, if there are great works of lines in any language it should be translated to Tamil and any greatworks in Tamil should be translated to other languages should be followed for Natchinthanai. Can not think of anything better than Natchinthanai produced from Sri Lanka. This should be translated to Sinhala and people should also translate Natchinthanai in action with many centers across Sri Lanka if people really want to live in peace.