The Lord is the very personification of simplicity, which helps all His numerous auspicious qualities, without beginning or end, shine forth; having made innumerable descents without restriction of manner of birth and place of descent, it is always the Lord’s prerogative to grant that cleansed and clarified state (known as ‘Mokṣa’). Shedding, with sweet spontaniety, His unlimited grace unto the devotees (and doing even odd jobs for them) He is beyond the reach of others (the inimical).
This pāśuram follows a profound and dramatic event in the life of Śrī Nammāzhvār. Having begun to speak on Bhagavān's supreme accessibility (saulabhyam) as manifested in His divine incarnations (avatārams), the Āzhvār meditated upon the Lord's unlimited simplicity—particularly the act of allowing Himself to be bound to a mortar and trembling out of feigned fear.