Ramalinga Adigal tells us that he was offered the Kingdom of God and was given the staff of authority to perform the five tasks namely creation, sustenance, destruction, veiling and to bestow grace. This was a result of immense devotion and after having performed years of severe austerities or tapas that generated much body heat.
Watch this video from 5.20. Is this the energy that Ramalinga Adigal mastered to escape to a parallel world?