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SYNOPSIS OF THE CONTENT OF THIRUWAACHAKAM. Thiruvaachakam -the sacred utterances of the saint Maanickavaachagar - has been rightly called as a book of mystic theology. The saint was blessed to visualize God in the form of a human priest. “Behold Him Whom I saw with my eyes. Note that I was convinced that He was God Civan Himself.” This has been a significant event in the spiritual life of the saint. So he prayed to Him with pious devotion for his grace. He wept and melted for His mercy to extricate Him from the miserable cycle of birth and death wiping out the inseparable bonds of illusion, Karma (good and bad deeds) and ego. Thus he poured forth 51 poems of rapturous songs and emotional melodies. They are auto-biographical songs not only extolling His greatness but also indulging in bridal mysticism in which the saint has been the bride in eternal love with God Civan. Complete surrender has been echoed in his fervent appeals and mellifluous compositions. His consciousness of his faults especially his mental waverings for the charm of maidens, his intensive shame for his unmelting mind and his painful and repeated yearnings for showering His Grace more and more, in woeful terms, his unintermittent love and devotion to God, and his reverential appeals not to forsake him but to forgive him, have helped him in his final triumph. The Transcendent experiences. It was only when he prayed that he should be endowed with unintermitting love for him, he was granted. It was only when he, with that love for Him, thawed and melted, He bestowed his grace on him. XIX