The chanters of this decad, it is claimed, will get the terrific cycle of birth and rebirth halted, by cutting out the bondage of Saṃsāra, the root-cause of the dreadful succession of lives. The family ties and sensual pleasures breed empty and worthless desires and running after them is just as futile and meaningless as trying to quench one’s thirst, mistaking the mirage for a running brook.
In this concluding pāśuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār reveals the glorious fruit (phalaśruti) that is bestowed upon those who become well-versed in these sacred verses. As our revered pūrvācāryas have elucidated, Āzhvār mercifully declares that for those who master this chapter from among the thousand divine pāśurams he composed, their entanglement in worldly