The loving worship, referred to here, is the disinterested love of God, with no personal ends in view, which culminates in the highest reward, namely, possession of God Himself. Unto such votaries, the Lord is ever close and easily accessible and the natural corollary to this state is the riddance of their ills and evils, one and all, including the dreadful cycle of birth
In this eighth pāsuram of the chapter, our glorious Āzhvār offers a profound and merciful instruction (upadēśa) to all souls. As elucidated by the great preceptor Nañjīyar and followed in the commentaries of all subsequent ācāryas such as Vādhi Kēsari Azhagiya Maṇavāḷa Jīyar, Periyavāccān Piḷḷai, and the venerable Nampiḷḷai, the essential message is an unequivocal