(i) Having abjured wealth and ‘Kaivalya Mokṣa’ in the two preceding songs, the Āzhvār now asserts that even service unto the Supreme Lord has to be given the go-by, overwhelmed, as he is, by service unto the ‘little-big’ men (as in the original text), over here, which is virtually an enlargement of service unto God. The ‘little-big men’, an apparent contradiction in terms,
In this third pāśuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār continues to elaborate upon the supreme nature of servitude to the devotees of Sriman Nārāyaṇa. Our revered pūrvācāryas, including the great Nañjīyar, explain that the Āzhvār here makes a most profound declaration: even if one were to attain the ultimate goal of bhagavat-prāpti—the direct and eternal service to