The yoga lessons, which Narayana Gurudev received from Thaikkattu Ayyyava, increased his thirst for realization. So, he traveled from one place to another seeking guidance and disciplining himself most intensely. This ultimately led him to do intense penance for six years.
He found a cave in the Marutvan Hills, which is the ghat section of Kanyakumari District.
He lived in this cave and sustained himself mostly with berries and tubers, and drank from the mountain brooks.
His solitary penance was very intense. During those days, he prayed to god. Conceiving the supreme to be Shiva. While he sat for hours in the same posture in the solitude of the cave, a cobra and a tiger guarded him.
He lived mostly on mountain berries and leaves. He might have come at times to the foot of the hill to get food from the people ho lived in a hamlet nearby.
On one occasion, he was very hungry when he emerged from his samadhi. Total absorption. At that time he saw a leper coming to him with a begging bowl. It contained fluffed rice. The leper offered it to him. Like intimate friends they ate from the same bowl. The leper was not an apparition. He was an actual man. Hwy and how did he come there, was a mystery! After partaking of the food he bade farewell with out either of them making any attempt to know each other.
The last days of Narayana Gurudev in the marutvan were very similar to the days of the enlightenment of Gautama siddhartha.
Siddhartha became awakened under the Bodhi tree of Gaya, and became Gautama Buddha. Even so Narayana Gurudev became enlightened in the cave of marutvan and became Narayana Gurudev.
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