(i) Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī returns home in a state of mental exhaustion, and sees the burning lamp. The heat of the flame, she thinks, is the one generated by its separation from the Lord, an experience identical with hers.
(ii) The flame of the lamp is not homogeneous, being of different intensity of heat at different places or zones, as they are called; the flame itself
In this ninth pāśuram of the first chapter in the Second chapter, our revered āchāryas illuminate the depths of Āzhvār's divine madness. As documented by vadakkuth thiruvīdhip piḷḷai from the discourses of nampiḷḷai, parāṅkuśa nāyaki (the feminine persona of Nammāzhvār), having witnessed the salt-pan's inability to unite with the great sea—a state mirroring