While in Madras, the Swami used to go to Tiruvottiyur temple through a bye lane instead of the main car shed (chariot shed  - street. But one day he happened to go instead through the main street. There was a naked sanyasi sitting on the pial of a house in that street. He would comment on people going that way as "an ass is going, a bull is going." On the day the Swami passed through that road, the naked sanyasi hailed him in praise as "Here is one highly noble person (Uttama Purusha) coming and, so commenting he immediately covered the parts of his body (as if in honour to the great man who was passing through). The Swami said a few words to him and that very night the latter left the place.