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“Oh unsatiating spring of Ambrosia in my mind! Oh You Who are capable of dismantling the dwelling of the deceitful senses so that those saints who worshipping and praising You and crying, “Oh Sire! Oh Aran we can no longer bear to remain in this carnal body which is subjected to various vicissitudes”, have become Reality shedding unreality, may not come here once again and get entangled in birth” (1:83–88). The saint referring to his own body has also sung, “Oh beautiful Effulgence which abolishes the unreality of this worm--filled body!” (42:8:1). Having been endowed with such a divine body of Grace, the saint recalls: (1) how he could approach God; “Is it not due to the strong hold of the Enslaver of resplendent Thillai, lovely and golden, that I am able to approach Him and that my mind which trusts Him, may merge in Him lest this frame sprout as a bud in the womb, grow to floret, flower and raw fruit and ripen in vain and die off?" (40:6). (2) how he could visualize Him: “Turning down birth itself and wiping out the two-disease and ageing--with their kith and kin, I went to the town of Thillai surrounded by dense groves, reached the hall of gnosis and saw the supreme Principal One” (31:6). (3) how he was admitted into the galaxy of his sages: “Listen to the reason why people in the world call me a mad man! Without falling in line with His will and without knowing the way to gain His grace, I have been bent upon dying and failing into the dire Hell. We have seen such a wonder of Iny Father Who made such a person His own and joined me to His saints” (26:4). BO