(i) In this stanza, the Āzhvār realises that he is unfit even to say that he has defiled the Lord, What is his title, cither way, to dabble in God-head? It is something like a person, who, by reason of his birth, is precluded from learning the Vedas, saying that he has not learnt the Vedas, as if he has failed to learn a thing he is entitled to learn. This feeling of the
In this second pāśuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār, in a state of profound humility, retracts his previous admission of unworthiness. He now reveals a deeper truth: the very act of declaring one's own disqualification to glorify the Supreme Lord is a privilege reserved only for the most exalted of beings. As Nanjīyar and Nampiḷḷai elucidate, Āzhvār considers