It is only the Omnipotent Lord who can achieve the seemingly impossible and blend into harmony the incompatibles, such as floating on a tender fig-leaf over the vast watery expanse as a mere young infant, holding in its stomach all the world with their variegated contents, all things and beings. Singing the glory of the great Sustainer, the Āzhvār is naturally free from fatigues.
In this ninth pāsūram, our revered ācāryas explain that Śrī Nammāzhvār meditates profoundly upon the supreme protective nature of Emperumān, particularly as manifested during the great cosmic deluge (mahā-praḷaya). Contemplating the Lord as vaṭadaḷaśāyī—the astonishing infant who rests upon a tender banyan leaf after having swallowed all the worlds—the Āzhvār is