(i) The servants of the servants of those devotees, enthralled by the bewitching beauty of the Lord holding the charming discus in hand, are said to be the Āzhvār’s masters, even though the said devotees are otherwise terribly depraved, and worse than the ‘Caṇṭāḷa’, outside the Ken of the four prescribed, time-honoured castes. While devotion to the Lord’s devotees is the
In this ninth pāśuram of the chapter, our glorious Āzhvār reveals the pinnacle of Śrīvaiṣṇava conviction by defining who his true masters are. He declares that those who are servitors to the Śrīvaiṣṇavas—who themselves serve Emperumān with no expectation of any other fruit (ananyaprayojanar)—are his ultimate lords. The Āzhvār's devotion thus extends to the third degree