The story goes that a great deluge threatened to sink the sacred land of Kumari Kandam (the mythical lost Tamil continent). The gods, realizing that the ancient Tamil scriptures and alchemical secrets would be lost forever, called upon Sivi Tamil Yogi.
"The stone in the river is hard. The stone in the fire becomes iron. The iron in the fire becomes steel. The steel in the fire becomes liquid. The liquid thus cleansed becomes the mirror. The mirror, reflecting the Self, becomes God." Sivi Tamil Yogi