(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, + Read more