In the hills of Tamil Nadu he found his guru, and lived with him for one year learning how to clean his body and mind, and healed his illness successfully.
The current lineage can be only be traced back three disciples, though it no doubt reaches back centuries, perhaps even to the time of Thiruvallavar. The story begins in Australia with a Tamil migrant, S. Venkatesan, who was working as a civil engineer. In the 1990s when Venkatesan was in his 50s, he developed a terminal illness which was said to be untreatable by the Australian doctors. Understandably, he was distraught at this news and sought to find other ways to cure himself, and turned towards the ancient teachings of Thiruvallavar and Tirumular, the legacy of his motherland. This took him on a journey back to his home state of Tamil Nadu to try and find any living yogis who carried on the lineage and actively practiced the healing techniques of the sages. In the hills of Tamil Nadu he found his guru, and lived with him for one year learning how to clean his body and mind, and healed his illness successfully.