SIRUPPULI NAYANAR (Series of Tamil saints)

Siruppuli Nayanar was a pious Brahmin. He lived in Tiruvakur in the Chola kingdom. He was an ardent devotee of Lord Siva and His Bhaktas. He used to worship them and serve them sincerely. He would repeat the Panchakshara Mantra, with Bhav and sincerity, throughout the day and night. He also performed the Vedic sacrifices in honor of Lord Siva. All these earned for him the supreme grace of Siva.

A special spiritual practice of this Nayanar seems to have been the ceaseless repetition of the Panchakshara Mantra (Om Namah Sivaya). This extremely simple practice is capable of bestowing incalculable benefit on man: and yet, ignorant man, full of delusion, refuses to resort to it. The continuous repetition of the Mantra will change the very mind-substance. It contains a divine vibration. Modern science has reached a stage where it no longer believes in mass and quantity. Even the gross and impure intellect of a scientist has come to recognize the superior power in the subtle atom or cell. Great indeed is the foolishness of man if he still refuses to believe that the sound vibrations (even the subtler thought vibrations) can bring about a radical change within himself and heal him physically, vitally, mentally, psychically, and spiritually.

This is the highest Yoga: to remember God always and constantly to repeat His Name.