of tears dewing on them, with unswerving love day by day they Cherished. Obeisance to You! Oh Lord! You became their very Mother and brought them up”. (4:81-87) The saint explains how he was brought up. “Let us beat the trumpet of Thellenam singing till it turns sweet in our mouths of the transcendent Effulgence. who while on other side the throng of ascetics who labouring for deliverance stood sore wearied, graciously made even base me His own on this side and immersed me in the sea of pious devotion” (11:12) “Oh great Lord Civan who is unknowable even by the beavenly ones and who dwelling here in southern Thirupperunthurai Was it not out of love for me that You by merely looking on me, severed my barren births and making my heart soften, graciously entered and made me Your own (38:7) As the saint in the ocean of devotion was able to thaw and melt body and soul joyfully out of sheer love, He bestowed
on him. His grace (22:2). He sings: ". o “Oh Mother! Oh Father! Oh matchless Gem! Oh delicious Ambrosia growing out of love.! Oh Wealth? Oh great Civaperuman who bestowed perfact Civan-hood on this worminfested vagrant outcaste who is increasing falsity and decreasing his days, upon this earth.I have caught poid of You firmly. Where will You at Your pleasure appear hönceforth to bestow moregrace?”(37:3) 23
