(i) Certain branches of knowledge become extinct due to lack of propagation, due again to lack of interest or adequate intelligence to grasp them and various other causes; the Lord allows them to die out and gets them resuscitated, as and when He deems it necessary.
(ii) Cf. IV-2 and 3 of Bhagavad Gītā where Lord Kṛṣṇa says that the Karma Yoga, explained by Him long
In this eighth pāśuram of the chapter, our venerable pūrvācāryas illuminate a profound shift in Śrī Nammāzhvār's divine experience. Having previously relished the glories of the Lord through his tongue, Āzhvār now proclaims that this experience has culminated in a direct, visual manifestation. As Nanjīyar explains, Āzhvār declares, "emperumān who establishes the