The highest love to God is love rendered for God’s sake, love culminating in benediction or glorification of God. Love, so disinterestedly rendered, is love of purity and virginity and, under its influence, what is uppermost in the mind of the devotee is the Lord’s remarkable tenderness (Saukumārya) and bewitching beauty and he grows apprehensive of the Lord’s safety and
In this inaugural pāsuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār gives voice to a profound spiritual anguish. He observes the state of beings within samsāram and laments their universal affliction: regardless of whether they are knowledgeable or ignorant, favorable or unfavorable, they all approach the Supreme Lord, Śrīman Nārāyaṇa, viewing Him solely as a means to achieve