(i) The eyes have become dry and worn out, looking for the Lord in all directions, hoping that He might come from any direction; the lips have become parched up, by calling Him out frequently. The Āzhvār’s stinging shame is due to the Lord not turning up, even though he had not called him for trivial personal gains but merely for the pleasure of beholding Him. This might
In this second pāśuram of the fifth chapter in the eighth decade, Śrī Nammāzhvār, in the depths of his divine love-sickness, continues his fervent appeal to Śrīman Nārāyaṇa. As our revered ācāryas beginning with Nañjīyar elucidate, the Āzhvār’s singular prayer is this: “You should mercifully appear before me with Your beautiful, divine hair, so that all my fatigue