The Koels coo the love-songs and the peacocks are seen strutting about; Kṛṣṇa is still in bed, but He is sure to leave shortly for the grazing fields, along with the cattle, and the prospect of separation from Him, a little hence, is so dreadful that the Gopīs have already begun to feel the pangs of separation, as if Kṛṣṇa has already left. It is a terrific gloom that
In this inaugural pāsuram, Āzhvār, in the state of Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī, expresses the profound pain of separation. This anguish arises from the mere thought that Emperumān might be leaving, and it is cruelly exacerbated by the sounds of joyous birds and even by the Lord's own merciful glance. In this heightened state of loving distress, she conveys her innermost feelings