(i) The mates would appear to have been prodding the Nāyakī, saying that the Lord is indeed dear to attain and not the easily accessible one, as she was making out. The Nāyakī, however, effectively silences them by pointing out that it matters not whether He is near or far, seeing that He has kept her mind solely fixed on Him. And, in this state of mind, the Nāyakī sees
This pāśuram is the sixth in the second chapter of the eighth decade of Swāmi Nammāzhvār’s Tiruvāymozhi. In the preceding verses, the friends of Parāṅguśa Nāyakī (the Āzhvār in the state of a lovelorn maiden) have perhaps been suggesting that Emperumān is easily approachable. Here, she counters this notion, declaring that He is, in fact, utterly unreachable and