The Lord is the Master of the exalted Celestials and that proclaims His Supremacy; but then, He is also the Master of the Āzhvār, the lowliest of the lowly and this brings out His amazing simplicity. The Lord could enlist the Āzhvār as His vassal, by revealing unto him His great prowess as the Sustainer and Redeemer of the universe, during and after the deluge, respectively; the Āzhvār, therefore, seeks refuge at His feet and his mind cannot turn towards any one else.
In this third pāśuram, the Āzhvār makes a profound and unequivocal declaration of his absolute and exclusive dependence (ananya-gatitvam) upon the Supreme Lord. He affirms with unshakable conviction that he possesses no other refuge, not even within the subtlest realms of his own mind, than the sacred lotus feet of that very Emperumān who, after having compassionately