(i) Poets, sweet and chaste: Poets composing songs in elegant diction, abounding in choice words, pregnant with meaning, are said to be sweet and if they also happen to be selfless singers of the Lord’s glory, they are chaste indeed. This combined appellation would, however, cover only a few poets of the eminence of the first three Āzhvārs (Poikai, Pēy and Pūtattāḻvār).
This pāśuram is the first of its chapter, wherein Śrī Nammāzhvār, having been fully consumed by the grace of Sriman Nārāyaṇa, finds himself overwhelmed by the ocean of His divine qualities. Emperumān, declares the Āzhvār, entered his heart with the stated purpose of making him sing the divine hymns of the Thiruvāymozhi. Yet, witnessing the sheer depth of the Lord's