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(4) how he was ridden of death and birth: “Oh King dragon! Go and hum to the Sea of Compassion Whose throatis black, Who stands beyond all powers of the thinking, heasoning, deciding and executing mind and who on my seeking refuge at his feet rid me of the delusion of death and birth” (10:9). (5) how he could gain his supreme gracve to reach His Fect! “Who else indeed could gain the grace bestowed on me by the Primal One that I may reach the jewelled Feet of the Lord with a Dame as one part of Him as I who floundering in the vast whirpool called death and birth and was about to sink through over--powering passion in the embraces of beautiful and jewelled damsels?” (51:8). (6) how he could gain the vision of God: “Oh great Flood of Perunthurai who bestowed unswerving love on me! What is it that You have done to me in front of atheists, allowing them to speak slanders about me? On my praying with love and saying that the unique refuge under Your Foot devoid of death and the evil (birth) that follows it, will be the only sanctuary to me, You came and showed Yourself to me at the sacred Eagle's Hill” - (30:6). (7). how he was transformed into Civan Himself: “I who was infatuated by the sense organs which would surely cause death and was drifting to fall into cruel hell, saw in beautiful Thillai the infinite Bliss Who clarified my reasoning mind, transformed me into Civan Himself and made me His own” (31:1). 9 (c). Does the saint plead for death? Saint Maanickavaachagar who has woefully questioned the Dancer of the golden Hall at Thillai, “Oh Gold! Will not B 81