The Lord is, no doubt, the Great Giver, rather the one and only Giver and there is no gift beyond Him. He is known as ‘Arthidhārtha paridhāna dhīkṣitha’. The ‘Ithihāsas’ and Purāṇas contain frequent references to the Lord’s benevolence unto the Devas vis-a-vis the Asuras, on whom the Lord inflicts sufferings. The Āzhvār has also alluded to this fact, quite often, in this
In this ninth pāsuram of the chapter, our glorious Āzhvār addresses a profound spiritual query which arises as a natural consequence of the preceding revelation. Having established that the cycles of birth and death are rendered immaterial for a true devotee of Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, the question remains: what becomes of those sins (karmas) which are destined to yield results