Reference to the petty pleasures, prompted by the five senses, was made by the Āzhvār in the last song. This would appear to have raised a doubt in the Lord’s mind whether or not the Āzhvār eschewed the ‘Kaivalya Mokṣa’, which was everlasting, undergoing no modification, at any time. The Āzhvār, therefore, hastens to clarify his stand in this regard, as well. The so-called
In the profound culmination of this chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār articulates the supreme and absolute nature of bhagavat-kaiṅkaryam (devotional servitude) by decisively rejecting even the exalted state of kaivalya-mokṣa. The context, as illuminated by our revered pūrvācāryas such as Nañjīyar, is a divine dialogue wherein Emperumān Himself, observing the Āzhvār’s disdain