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and cry with garlands to fetter His Feet if and when they found Him. Hiding Himself to them he showed Himself to Saint Maanickavaachagar in the guise of a priest and made him. His own. There he sings, “I with undying love melting my bones' wailed with lamentation. I clamoured aloud and fell down with my head all topsy-turvy, rolled and wailed (3:149-153) when He showed Himself to me!" “While He hid Himself from even Brahma and Vishnu who searched for Him, He shone for me with a golden light comprising the lightning-like flash of a heap of emeralds and a cluster of rubies! That Effulgent Being Who for my sake coming today without any effort on my part took abode in me and delights my mind as an eternal spring! I am not able to bear this body which spells ruin. It is not able to contain the sea of His exquisite bliss which over-runs it with waves! Obeisance to Him! He made for me a divine body instead, which yields ecstasy. With sweet honey he fashioned my limbs anew” (3:115-126). “He became very near to me as a fruit on the palm. I know not what to say! Blessed You! Is this proper? I, a mere cur cannot sustain this! I cannot comprehend what You have done to me! Ah! I am dead! I know not what You have in Your grace given tO IIlÉ Your slave! I am not content with mere sipping nor can I swallow! Like waves of the sea of milk and like water in mid sea on full moon day, He ordained sweet ambrosia to fill the core of my mind to over-flowing and to collect in each hair-root of my body. He injected sweet honey into the cur’s frame. He pumped streams of marvellous ambrosia right into the holes of the bones. He fabricated a new form as if with my melting heart. He created an ecstasy-bubbling body for me. Ultimately He mixed even in me of lowest rank, Mercy's pure honey with His Grace and made me of surpassingly sweet ambrosia and thus made me be!” (3: 156-182).” (The expression “made me be” may be enterpreted as meaning that as soon as the 52