(i) The beetles, ever in quest of honey, are directed by the Nāyakī to the Lord in spiritual world, on whose crown is honey-studded tuḷaci, garland, so as to gather the honey therefrom and incidentally tell the Lord that He should not keep aloof from her, at that distance, gloating over His transcendent glory. It is through such mediation by the God’s chosen few, His detachment
In this fourth pāśuram of the eighth chapter in the sixth decade of the Tiruvāymoli, Śrī Nammāzhvār, fully embodying the emotional state of a lovelorn maiden, parāṅkuśa nāyakī, mercifully addresses a group of dragonflies. Languishing in the agony of separation from her Lord, she observes them alighting upon the jasmine flowers (mullai) that she had lovingly raised,