(i) The Lord has to be looked upon, as both the ‘Means’ and the ‘End
(ii) As the Internal Controller of the Individuals, He enables them to perform deeds and He confers the results, reward or punishment, as the case may be, because the deeds by themselves can’t grant rewards or inflict punishments.
(iii) The Saint calls upon the people to shed their ill-conceived
In the tenth and culminating pāśuram of this chapter, having previously condemned the kēvalas—those souls narrowly focused on the solitary enjoyment of the self (kaivalya)—Śrī Nammāzhvār now turns his compassionate gaze towards the most exalted of devotees. Our revered pūrvācāryas explain that Āzhvār addresses the ananya-sādhana and ananya-prayojana bhaktas,