When Vallimalai Swamigal began spreading the beauty of Tirrupugazh from Vallimalai, once an old man came, asking alms and consumed 1.5 kg of porridge and vanished from the scene, when his disciples went looking for the person with such a ravenous appetite. From the next day, a mongoose would consume the food meant for the old man. Likewise after Seshadri Swamigal's Mahasamadhi, the caretaker of the burial grounds of Tiruvannamalai yearned to see Swamigal and Swamigal graced him by telling him to go to Vallimalai. The caretaker saw the mongoose eating the food, people singing Tirupuggazh to it and suddenly, the mongoose transformed itself into Seshadri Swamigal, before disappearing from there.