(i) Āzhvār to the Lord: “Sire, are you keeping me on in this abode, just to witness and realise the harrowing depth of the sufferings of the worldlings, tossed up between birth on one side, and death, on the other, and old age and pestilence, in between? and then there are the postmortem sufferings in hell, far more severe. I pray Thee not to stir up my feelings any more, + Read more