There have indeed been many sweet-singing poets combining poetic skill and piety, like Vyāsa, Parāśara and Vālmīki, the great Sanskrit poets and the first three Āzhvārs and ‘Tirumaḷicai Āzhvār’ who have many sweet, soul-stirring hymns in Tamil to their credit. The Lord could have got the ‘Tiruvāymoḻi’ also sung by these super-eminent poets and yet He deigned to shed His
In this sixth pāsuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār is overcome with blissful wonder, contemplating the supreme grace of Śrīman Nārāyaṇa. He marvels, "Instead of commissioning the likes of the great sages Parāśara, Vyāsa, and Vālmīki to sing of His glories, the Lord has chosen to use me as His divine instrument to compose these perfect poems!" This is the central emotion