(adi Sankara) 15 All Round Tour Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

Sankara toured all places
To awaken the masses,
All the way by foot,
Four times almost.

Even dacoits, he had won,
Brought them, one by one,
To the Vedic spiritual path,
Free from birth and death.

Many temples he visited.
With his powers, he made
The Deities more sacred
And merciful hearted.

At Karnataka, he met
A boy, dumb but smart.
He saw the boy’s face
And studied his case.

“Who’re you? ” he asked.
The boy then replied,
“I’m not this body, Master,
But the Soul that exists all over.”

Sankara made him talk,
And the dumb spoke
The truth what he knew
In front of those few.

Sankara gave him
Then a new name
‘Hasthamalakar’
With due honour.

It was just a miracle.
As one more disciple,
Sankara was happy
To take this boy

The news of this miracle,
Surprised many people,
Who came to hear him
And paid respects to him.