(i) If, as a tender infant, the Lord could hold in His stomach all the worlds, where was the need for Him to grow big and span all the worlds in three strides, instead of doing it in His diminutive Form as Vāmana, with which He had demanded the gift of land from Bali? The great Nampiḻḷai has a ready answer, admirable as usual. The expansion of the Lord’s Form into Tṛvikrama,
In this fourth pāśuram, Nammāzhvār declares with profound and unshakeable conviction that for his humble self, there exists absolutely no other protection or refuge save for the divine feet of Emperumān. This is the Supreme Lord who, after eliminating the dangers faced by His devotees by vanquishing the prideful Mahābali and churning the great ocean for their ultimate