(i) The Nāyakī longs for the Lord’s presence so as to enable her to fall at His feet, right in front of the slanderous folks and silence them. These folks were slandering the Lord as faithless to the Nāyakī and the latter as foolishly sticking on to Him.
(ii) When Kūrathaḻvāṉ discoursed on this song in a place called Rājēntracōḻaṉ, a centenarian got up, shaking from
In the sacred progression of Śrī Nammāzhvār's Thiruvāymozhi, we arrive at the seventh pāsuram of the third chapter in the fifth decade. Here, the Āzhvār, in the state of Parāṅguśa Nāyaki, continues her intimate discourse with a confidential friend (prāṇa-sakhi). Having reached a state of profound longing and emotional turmoil due to separation from her Lord, she