In the preceding stanzas, the Āzhvār deprecated the earthly pleasures. And now, he points out that the ‘Svarga’, the fairy land known for its unmixed pleasures attained through rigorous penance., abjuring the wealth and bodily pleasures over here, is not hospitable enough to provide these men asylum for all time. They are literally hurled down to Earth at the end of the
In this ninth pāśuram, having previously established the ephemeral nature of earthly joys, our compassionate Āzhvār now turns his attention to the so-called higher realms. He elucidates that even the celestial pleasures of svarga (heaven), attained through the most arduous physical penances, are themselves fundamentally temporary and ultimately unworthy of pursuit.