The Āzhvār avers that one like him steeped in sensual pleasures cannot attain the Lord of Supreme Splendour in the High spiritual world, except through His spontaneous grace. This is obviously his reply to the question supposed to have been posed unto him by the Lord, whether he should not make some effort to attain the end in view.
In this fifth pāśuram of the chapter, a divine dialectic unfolds between the soul and the Supreme Lord. Emperumān, observing the Āzhvār's intense longing, appears to suggest that the soul itself must undertake some effort. He invokes the principle, “śāstrapalam prayoktari”—that the fruit of the śāstras ultimately accrues to the practitioner, implying that since