(i) Brahmā, the demi-urge, emerged from the lotus stalk on the Lord’s navel and created all the worlds; hence the worlds are said to have come up from the Lord’s navel.
(ii) No doubt, in the preceding song, the Āzhvār confessed to his inability to describe the Lord’s attributes and yet it is Lord Aḻakar’s extraordinary beauty that eggs him on, to speak out his mind,
In this fourth pāśuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār, having previously expressed an intention to remain silent, finds himself unable to do so. He is utterly compelled by the abundant and overwhelming divine beauty of Azhagar Emperumān. The Lord’s greatly relishable nature is, alas, unattainable for worldly people, and the Āzhvār, overcome with compassion, feels that