A question was posed to the Āzhvār, recalling his earlier powerful declarations: "You have previously proclaimed with great conviction, ‘nenjaththu eNNinEn’ (I have resolved in my heart) and ‘dhidamAga vaiyEn madhisUdi thannOdu ayanai’ (I will not hold even Śiva and Brahmā as equals to my Lord). In this world, it is the nature of things that when