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might desert him because of his Karma. So he pleads to Him who is like honey, milk.candy and ambrosia and is melting his bones, not to forsake him (6:21). The Lord melts the bones of His devotees who worship Him so that they may cross the sea of birth and wipe out their Karma (36:9). The saint experiences the presence of God in him. He feels with wonder that He melted his bones, destroyed the might of his past twin deeds, (Karma) plucked out his rooted grief and purified him. All these things happened because He entered in him out of His Mercy (40:3). The Lord ultimately transformed the corporal body of the saint and He ordained sweet ambrosia to collect in each hair root of his body. Further He pumped marvellous ambrosia right into the cavities of his bones (3:174-175). At this juncture it seems appropriate to point out the prayers devotedly offered by saint Ramalinga Swami, (18231874) (see appendix) to saint Maanickavaachagar. In his “Songs of sacred Grace” the Swami who has not only devoured Thiruvaachakam with devout love but has faithfully followed saint Maanickavaachagar in his spiritual pursuits and attainment of supreme Bliss, has devotedly indicated in very clear terms his divine experiences. “Oh God of Vaadavur! While all those who deeply concentrating their mind in between their eye-brows and meditating on God for a pretty long time and thereby becoming skeletal frames, have been disappointed, you alone have been blessed to obtain a unique body of love (Suddha Deham) and then to transform the same into a Body of Grace (Pranava Deham) and finally transmute it into a Body of Bliss (“Gnana Deham”) (Thiruvarutpa IV:12/3(See Appendix). It is no wonder therefore, that saint Maanickavaachagar exhorts that God fashioned a new form for him an ecstasy-bubbling 29