The Āzhvār has already stated, vide IX-10-5, that he will reach the spiritual world, the destined Land, at the end of the current span of life, as vouchsafed to him by the Lord at Tirukkaṇṇapuram. He now reverts to that and says that the crucial day of his departure from this world is drawing near and invites the worldlings to listen to his advice and prosper. Once he
In this ninth pāśuram, following the commentary of the great ācārya Nanjīyar, our Āzhvār declares that the long-awaited time has finally drawn near. This is the very time he alluded to in Tiruvāymozhi 9.8.4, saying "nāḷēl aṟiyēn enakkuḷḷana" (I do not know the date which is fixed for me), and again in Tiruvāymozhi 9.10.5, "maraṇam āṉāl" (at the end of this