The ‘Kauravas’ (the cruel hundred) would just not allow their five cousins, the Pāṇḍavas, to co-exist. The Lord had, therefore, to annihilate such terribly hostile cousins of the Pāṇḍavas and, in the process, He got the Earth rid of its unwholesome burden. Crores of Sādhus would, by no means, be a burden to Mother Earth to whom they are just as light as cotton, but the
In this seventh pāsuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār poses a profound question concerning the very purpose of human existence. He declares that those who remain unmoved by the supreme quality of āśrita-pakṣapāta—Sriman Nārāyaṇa’s profound partiality towards His devotees—and instead focus on nurturing their own physical forms, are not only a cause of great anguish