These birds are commissioned by the Nāyakī to go and meet the Lord in spiritual world, surrounded by Angels and regaling them (like unto rains, unleashed on the ocean instead of on the crops, withering away) and tell Him, His greatness lay not in His might and majesty in that transcendent setting but in His loving condescension unto the desolate Nāyakī who was dwindling,
In this ninth pāśuram of the chapter, Śrī Śaṭhakopa, in the state of Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī, turns his address to a flock of magnificent cranes. Having reached a profound stage of longing, her plea is no longer for the Lord’s immediate arrival. Instead, she beseeches these birds to act as emissaries, saying, “When you go to my Emperumān, even if He Himself does not deign to