The Scriptures warn that one shall not utter anything ominous (inauspicious), lest it should actually come to pass. In the fourth stanza of this decad, the Āzhvār, while exhorting his mind, apprehended the frightful possibility of his moving away from the Lord, haunted by his own lowliness. And here we find him suffering from that obsession again and so soon!
In this seventh pāśuram of the chapter, a profound shift occurs in Śrī Nammāzhvār's disposition. Having previously glorified emperumān as "maṇivaṇṇan endhai" (my master of a gem-like hue), the Āzhvār is now utterly overwhelmed by the Lord's supreme and distinct greatness, which is the eternal object of enjoyment for the nithyasūris in paramapadam. Meditating