The Āzhvār prays unto the Lord who has blest him with perpetual light inside, the glorious mental vision of the Divine, to make Himself perceptible to the external senses as well, at least once in a way. The Lord does exist for the devout and sheds light on them while He does not exist so far as the sceptical unbelievers are concerned and nonexistence of God is but synonymous with darkness or blindness. For the conflicting individuals these contradictions do exist.