In Ṛg Veda, ‘Āraṇyaka’, the Lord is said, to be quite apart, that is, different from the rest. Therefore it is, the Āzhvār says that He is neither male nor female, nor the ‘in-between’. A Tamil Pundit, who was listening to Śrī Parāśara Bhaṭṭar’s discourse on this song, observed that it smacked of the doctrine of nothingness (Śūnya), as the Lord could not be brought under
In this tenth pāśuram of the chapter, our divine sage, the Āzhvār, contemplates the utterly distinct and transcendent nature of the Supreme Lord, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa. Our revered pūrvācāryas, in their divine commentaries, illuminate the Āzhvār's core sentiment: having been blessed with the intimate union of Emperumān, the Āzhvār now finds himself at a profound loss for