The preceding stanzas, which declare that God is all-in-all, might smack of monistic philosophy, making it out that God is the one and only entity from whom all things emanated, which are thus merely His manifestations. Now it is clarified that the Lord is apart from the non-sentient things and sentient beings and enters them all as ‘Antaryāmin’ (Internal Controller),
In the luminous sequence of Nammāzhvār’s Tiruvāymozhi, this seventh pāsuram serves as a profound theological cornerstone. Our revered pūrvācāryas explain that having established in the preceding three verses that the true nature (svarūpa), existence (sthiti), and activities (pravṛtti) of the entire cosmos (jagat) are utterly dependent upon Śrīman Nārāyaṇa,