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Hence the Body is subjected to various obscene vicissitudes and the soul is fettered in the nest of worms and is struggling hard without any help. Realising the pain of bearing the burden one should pray to God and praise His glory, appeal and cry for release. He, in His grace, shall certainly destroy the wily bonds of the senses and the mind. The devotees will shed all unreality and become Real. They will not be reborn and come again to this world. Such is the greatness of His grace. Further, this poem contains in itself all the essential features of the entire book of Thiruvaachakam and so it is generally considered that when one recites this poem one gains the benefit of reciting the whole book itself. The saint has narrated how he was subjected to the various births in the plant and animal kingdom before he was enabled to take the human form. “Grass was I, shrub was I, worm, tree as Full many a kind of beast, bird, snake as Stone, man, goblins and demons as Mighty giants, ascetics, devaas, Within these immobile and mobile forms of life, I have been born in every kind of birth And I am wearied, Oh my Great Lord! “(Poem 1 : Lines. 26 to 31)” These excellent lines trace the evolution of human yeings from the Palaeozoic era (5000 to 600 million years) that s from the proto-flora and proto-fauna and fit in the modern :oncept for the evolution of human beings, the Homo sapiens. 1 O7