Let us offer our worship at the sacred abode of śrī badhari, the holy sanctuary of our Supreme Lord, Sarveśvaran. We must hasten to perform this service before the final, inevitable decline of our mortal frame. This is the stage when our speech becomes feeble (eyththa sollōdu), when our bodies, overcome by phlegm and wracked with a debilitating cough (irumi iḷaiththu),