(i) The Lord reposed on His serpent-bed in the Milk-ocean in ‘Yoga niddhrā”, preparatory to His incarnation as Śrī Kṛṣṇa to destroy the evil forces arrayed against the Godly men. The Āzhvār recounting, as he does, the great glory of Lord Kṛṣṇa, says that He has cut out all the impediments for his continual enjoyment of this bliss.
(ii) In deep thoughts absorbed: The
In the second pāśuram of this chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār declares with profound conviction that his blissful experience of the Lord is utterly without obstacle or interruption. He proclaims, “Since I am able to enjoy with overwhelming love the glories of Śrī Kṛṣṇa—who first reclines in the milky ocean (thiruppāṟkaḍal) as the primordial cause of all incarnations, and then