(i) When the whole world is plunged in protracted darkness the Nāyakī finds the godlings awake and, in a spirit of companionship, the wakeful Nāyakī cries out her woe to the wakeful deities and perhaps enlists their sympathy.
(ii) The Nāyakī who had earlier been proclaiming from the house-top that the Lord is the Sole Protector and we, His Subjects, are His exclusive
In the continuum of Śrī Nammāzhvār's divine outpourings, this seventh pāśuram of the fourth chapter within the fifth decade of the Tiruvāymozhi presents a poignant moment of profound despair. Here, the Āzhvār, in the state of Parāṅguśa Nāyakī, finds herself engulfed in a night that seems to stretch into an eon. As the long hours pass without the arrival of her beloved