982. Once, He drank from the breast of Pūthanā, the demoness who came disguised as a mother. Seeing this, Yaśodā, His real mother, trembled in fear and said, “I won’t let Him sit on anyone’s lap again.” That Lord, who grew up with such tender care, now stands atop golden Mount Meru, from where the vast Ganga flows down. He lives there still, at Badarikāśramam, on her sacred banks.
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(The words may be rearranged to facilitate conversion from poetry to prose (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continuously to form the sentence and understand the simplified meaning based on the Divyārtha Dīpikai for the verse.)
In a profound meditation upon the Lord’s glorious deeds, the Āzhvār reflects on the beautiful paradox of His divine childhood līlās and His supreme, transcendent nature, which He graciously makes accessible to all beings in His arcāvatāra form at Śrī Badarikāśramam. The Lord who, as a mere infant, performed acts of unimaginable power is the very same Sriman Nārāyaṇa