Unto the Devas, who wanted ‘Amṛt’ (ambrosia), the mere extract from the ocean and not the Lord Himself, He gave the Amṛt; He, however, gave Himself to the Cowherds in whose midst He was born, because they wanted Him, the real ‘Amṛt’ and not that artificial stuff. The Āzhvār’s soul got steeped in Him to such an extent and in such a manner that the one couldn’t be told from the other and hence there was no question of separation, as if they were two different entities,
In this ninth pāsuram, having been blessed with an overwhelming and abundant communion with emperumān, Śrī Nammāzhvār declares with unshakable conviction that the very question of separation from Him is now an impossibility. The Āzhvār’s experience is so profound that, as Śrī NampiLLai explains, he questions how separation could ever be contemplated when he and the