What the Lord did unto the Āzhvār was to destroy his formidable opponents, the five senses and wean him away from their mischief by exhibiting His charming beauty.
In the case of Gajendra, the elephant, it was, no doubt, a long and grim struggle but it was just an encounter with a single crocodile, as against the five crocodiles, the five formidable senses, the Āzhvār
In this second pāsuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār articulates a profound truth born from his personal experience of divine grace. He declares that even Sarveśvara’s celebrated and monumental act of delivering Gajendrāzhvān from peril pales in comparison to the unfathomable favour He has bestowed upon this adiyēn. The Lord’s act of entering the Āzhvār’s own heart,