It would indeed be difficult to enumerate the thousand and odd things to be eschewed and discarded. And so, the poet just tackles the root causes of all the evils, which have to be eradicated in toto. Instead of wording as ‘I’ and ‘Mine the Āzhvār has cautiously put it in the second person, as ‘You’ and ‘Yours in this stanza, lest the very things he abhors and advises
Preceding the glorious compositions of our revered Āzhvār is a profound inquiry, one that resonates with every soul caught in the cycle of worldly existence. The question is posed to Śrī Nammāzhvār: “Your Holiness proclaims that upon understanding the inherent defects of worldly attachments, one can renounce them. Yet, we have languished in this material world since time