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The Decad Thiruvenba (47) speaks further about the celestial state of those who have attained union with God. The saint points out clearly. “The light effused by the Lord of Perunthurai Who has stationed in my mind bestowed the path of no more return of birth on me”(47:7). He sings further “The Lord of Perunthurai filled me with frenzy; set me free from birth; thrilled my soul with speechless fervour; the Sire in exceeding Grace made me His own; the balm for all my pain, the deathless Bliss will make me God-mad (47:6). In the Decad, “Garland of rapture” (50) which contemplates on the desire for experience of Civan, the saint questions, “Who is there to calm my fears if You do not bid me to come to Thee? Are all those who are doomed to die, of my standard? Won't the devotees say that this (death) is undeserved in my case? Oh! Dancer of Thillai! I tremble! Will you please console me at least now?” (50:6). Moreover, the saint has reiterated in the last poem, “Decad of amazement” (51) which speaks about the ineffable enjoyment or “Not knowing how the experience came”: “I was fit only to be born in this earth and to be wearied with life and to drop down dead. God bestowed upon me inconceivable love, enslaved me and applied sacred ash even on me so that I may reach the pure path of devotion, Who else could gain the Grace showered on me?” (51:4). In the same decad the saint narrates in the first verse which is the quintessence of Thiruvaachakam, “I laboriously toiled and moiled in the company of cussed men who do not know the path to liberation, salvation and final peace. My Father taught me the path of devotion. In order to wipe out my old Karma He purged the lust of my reasoning mind. Then He transformed me into Civan Himself-pure Bliss-and made me His own. Who else could gain such a privilege with which my Father in His Grace blessed me!” (51:1). 64