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9. Does the saint dread death? Saint Maanickavaachagar complains to God that his body and life being bound by the remarkable ropes of Aram (good deeds) and Paavam (bad deeds and sins) and wrapped all over with an external skin in order to hide the worm-infested grime with nine outlets excreting foul drippings, has become a veritable den of all sorts of miseries and sorrow. He is bewildered due to the thwarting mind as the five senses are seducing him. With these equipments his frustrated mind is not thawing and melting with love for God and thereby he is deprived of the grace of God and the benefit of gaining the human body (1:52-55). Instead, he has been believing this foul nest with wall of flesh and leaking false roof ridden with rotten serum and worms, as real and has been living in it though tossed about in the whirlpools of the sea of troubles (26:7). He is pained for his precarious plight and feels that he has become a wild tree bearing in vain the burden of this flesh-ridden body while heaven-bent men of the world keep on performing Thavam--pious and penitent meditation (34:10). So he prays to God to call him unto Him as his body, mind and senses are bent upon ruining him. “Oh Partner of the Darne (Umai) of fawn-like giance! Oh Honey who came here and made me Your own! Oh Ambrosia! Oh Essence of the sugar-cane! Oh Civan! Oh King of Thillai in the south! While those who have fallen in line with Your divine will, merge in Your jewelled Feet, I continue to remain here guariyg this fleshy frame of worms. Oh my Owner!” (5:55). “Oh my King! I cannot remain in the garment of brawn and bones tied up by white sinews and covered by skin. Oh rare Ambrosia who is beyond men of every sort! Oh Father! Behold that 73