(i) It is a strange sickness that afflicts the Nāyakī. This Godsickness or God-love keeps on pushing her from behind and will, she says, pursue her even on the yonder side of death, unlike the earthly kind of sickness, which holds sway only as long as there is life.
(ii) While the night makes for physical blindness, God-love screens her mind’s eye. It is a pity, the darkness prevents the Nāyakī from beholding her Lord, if He were at all to present Himself before her at that hour.
In this sixth pāsuram of the chapter, our Āzhvār, in the state of Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī, voices a cry of profound despair. Submerged in the anguish of separation from her Lord, she finds herself besieged by both internal and external torments during the long, oppressive night. Observing that even Emperumān, who is the ultimate Protector, has not arrived, she questions with