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Thiruvaachakam Chapter 2 PoEM-5 Thiruchchathakam (The Sacred Cento) Sub-title: Bhakthi Vairaakya Vichithram (The marvel of tenacity of devotion) Thiru = sacred; Chathakam = cento (hundred); Bhakti = devotion; Vairaakya(m) = tenacity; vichithram = marvel. The second part of Thiruvaachakam (according to our classification) is made up of two Poems such as Thiruchchathakam (Decad 5) and Neethal Vinnappam (Decad 6). The fifth decad is known as Thiruchchathakam (The Sacred Cento), as it is made up of ten sub-decads with tenstanzas or verses each, with separate sub-titles. These 100 verses are connected by the law which requires that the last word of each verse shall begin the following verse. This is called Anthaathiand Pope has translated this as “Anaphoretic verse”. This Cento is made up of hundred harmonious verses of varying metres dealing with the different phases of religious enthusiasm and devotion of the saint. The titles of the sub-decads indicate in some measure the course of his thoughts and the character of his mental conflicts. There is a most pathetic alternation of rapturous and realizing devotion with coldness and apathy for the instability of his wavering mind for worldly pleasures in a most touching language. On the whole it exhibits the progress of the soul through the successive stages of religious experience till it merges itself in the nature of complete union with the Supreme. These harmonious lyrical 188