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3. God condescended fOr lOVe Let us trace the development of love for God in the saint Maanickavaachagar and its consequences as it is tantamount to relate that the more he ascended with love towards Him the more has been the descent of God in him. He devotedly prays to God saying that he has been actually enacting the role of a devotee in a drama to enter into the land of deliverance all along. He requests the Lord to grant him graciously unintermitting love for Him to take root in the core of his heart and meit (5:11). With this love he desires to sing of Him in obeisance. Singing thus with his heart thawing and thawing, his mind melting and melting and his body limbering and limbering, he should join the blossom Feet which dances in the hall at Thillai (Chidambaram) (5:100). When he finds that his mind is wandering for women and his body not melting for His Grace he is vexed with his body which is full of filth, and dirty things. It is susceptible to all sorts of temptations and is continuously formenting him. He accuses himself of his sins and lust for women. He condemns himself and wants to crack his hard heart. He longs to thaw and melt. He desires to reach His Feet and abide therein (25:4). He hopes that his prayers will be answered and He will not forsake him. So he prays to bestow His Grace on him and begs to take pity on him. His tongue is bubbling His name, his eyes are streaming with tears, his month is mumbling His praise, his mind is melting and his heart is contemplating on Him (21:10). As the grant of His Grace is not easily forthcoming he prays, “Oh! my Gem! When am I thawing and thawing, melting and melting to enter Your Presence? When am I to look at Your sunset-resembling holy Body performing various kinds of antics like standing, sitting, lying, rising, laughing, weeping, 25