O Ocean! Convey My Sorrows to the Lord on the Serpent Couch.
கடலே! என் துயர்களை நாகணைக்கே உரைத்தி
Words may be rearranged for prose order (Aṉvayam). Read meanings in black continuously for the simplified sense based on the Divyārtha Dīpikai.
Avathārikai (An Introduction to the Pāśuram)
In this state of profound separation from her Lord, the Āzhvār, in the elevated mood of Parakāla Nāyakī, beholds the great ocean before her. Stirred by her own inner turmoil, the ocean itself appears agitated, furiously casting its great waves towards the shore. Seeing in the ocean a fellow sufferer who has also experienced