(i) Just to placate the love-intoxicated Gopīs, Śrī Kṛṣṇa repeatedly embraced them. Pleasurable in the extreme though, it only aggravated their misery, as they were tormented by the almost immediate prospect of separation from Him. It is this grief that is voiced forth now.
(ii) Finding that attempts, made by Him to pacify the Gopīs, have only intensified their grief,
In this second pāśuram of the third chapter, continuing the divine outpourings of the tenth decade of the Tiruvāymozhi, our revered pūrvācāryas, most notably Nañjīyar, explain the sacred context. As Parāṅkuśa Nāyaki speaks in a state of profound love-sickness, Emperumān, in His infinite compassion, embraces her repeatedly so that she may be sustained. Witnessing