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Fcet. God has been generous and gracious to show him. His Feet. God in His grace has appeared as Effulgence. The saint sings therefore: “Let us sing of Him who condescended to take pity on me and who out of compassion appeared as Effulgence and who by His inconceivable sweet Grace made His light shine inside my innermost being (8:18). Oh! Lord of Civapuram! As and when my body and soul began to thaw and melt with love for you, You bestowed on me sweet Gracc which is not in my reach!” (22:2). “Our Lord bestowed on me His great Grace so that I may swim accross the sea called birth” (42:7). Great seers and saints have prayed for this superfine inconceivabie state of tranquility and achieved this state of divinity after a good deal of penance and meditation. Saint Maanickawaachagar prays, “Let us sing and beat the trumpet of The Henam, how for the sake of Him who never knows weariness even if the ether were to vanish, wind were to die, and fire, water and arth were to disappear (the"order in which the five elements originated) I lost my body, soul, sense of perception, my mind and I-ness (ego) too” (11:18). The saint is amazed to see that when he and his belogings are lost, God has descended in him and chosen to abide in him. He cries out “Oh! Primeval One! What I have become! I know not the end of all this! My Lord! I hear as if you would say, “Come! I am Destroyer of Karma” and announced Yourself as “I am so and so.”, You enslaved me who is steeped in Karma” (5:22). When the mind is thus deprived of all the three kinds of bonds which have been clinging to the reasoning mind, the saint refers vividly that God, while teaching him the path of devotion, severed off the original taint fastened to his 43