Seismograph, a walking seismograph was Ramalingar, a saint who lived in Tamilnadu in the middle half of the nineteenth century. A seismograph which registered every unharmonious thought, word, and deed, anything devoid of love which happened around it. However, he was a seismograph with a difference. The one which registers the tremors set up by the earthquakes does it without emotional involvement. But in the case of our seismograph which was Ramalingar every tremoro caused by an unloving or unharmonious thought word or deed left a bruise, a wound, a scar on the hearf of this human seismograph.

Cries of lamentation of the occasion of death of people, the hars cry of the kestrel, the howls packs of dogs, the reverberation of earth shaking steps of people leaving a clound of dust behind them, disputations in a loud voice, thunderous knockings at doors, to all these harsh and hostile vibrations , Ramalingars heart responded even as a highly sensitive seismograph does to the slightest tremor of an earthquake.

It is no wonder that such a highly sensitive person had a unique empathy with all creatures.

He quaked with distress at the sight of disease or hunger even of strangers.

His heart broke on witnessing the povert of people.

The fibres of his heart were wrong on even mere seeing the weariness of people.