In the preceding song, the Āzhvār said that he had attained the Lord’s valorous feet and now he repeats it authoritatively, adducing the evidence to prove his statement. The Āzhvār’s body smells sweet, exuding the fragrance of tuḻaci and this would be possible only if he came in close contact with the Lord at whose lotus feet there is the tuḻaci, with its profusion of
In this seventh pāsuraṁ, when confronted with the question, "How can you be certain that you have truly reached Him?" Nammāzhvār provides an answer not of intellectual reasoning, but of profound, sensory experience. He declares, in essence, "Can you not perceive it? My very body has become imbued with the divine fragrance of the sacred unguents that adorn His person!"