(i) Turning the searchlight inward, the Nāyakī finds that a soul, badly caught up in the vortex of worldly life, with its terrific involvement in a recurring cycle of birth and death, was attracted by the Lord’s bewitching eyes, had the blissful union with Him for a while, only to be deserted by Him as at present. Contemplating thus, she breaks down and even then, her
In this fifth pāśuram of the second chapter, our revered ācāryas, beginning with Nañjīyar, explain that the mother of Parāṅguśa Nāyakī addresses Śrīman Nārāyaṇa directly. Witnessing the constant and harrowing transformations her daughter endures, she questions the Lord, "Would it befit Your glorious qualities, such as āśrita vātsalya—Your boundless motherly affection