(i) While the Lord incarnates as a matter of grace we are born under compulsion, as the result of our past Karmas (deeds), to eke out our load. But by the Lord’s spontaneous grace, the cycle of birth and rebirth will, some day, be brought to a halt in our case, and we won’t have any more births, having once reached the Eternal Land (spiritual world) whence there is no
In this inaugural pāśuram of the chapter, our blessed Śrī Nammāzhvār succinctly presents the glorious principles that shall be elaborated upon in the subsequent verses. He declares his own state of absolute fulfillment, proclaiming, "I, who have been graced with the ability to praise the multifarious and auspicious qualities of Emperumān—who undertakes countless incarnations