The songs of Azhwars are the outpourings of their mystic experience which transcends the limits of rational thought and feeling. But this experience is also recognisable in every individual who yearns for something higher and spiritual from this life on earth. The ultimate goal is release from the cycle of birth and this means all association with the physical world should be cut off. Nammazhwar conveys what the scriptures have said about this truth of the soul’s journey to salvation, and of how a jivatma qualifies to step into this path, pointed out Velukkudi Sri Krishnan in a discourse.
Azhwar exemplifies many facets of absolute devotion to God and total absorption in His boundless compassion. His bhakti reaches a peak and God responds to his surrender and wishes to grant him Moksha. To emphasise that the path to moksha implies the journey of the soul sans the physical attributes, Azhwar projects a vision to indicate that even if God wishes to take him to Vaikunta with his body it would not be possible. It is a stage that is reached when the jivatma sheds this love for the physical body. His prayer is to the Lord to make him let go His hold on this body through His Sankalpa. Azhwar addresses his own self to hold on to the Lord at Tirumalirumsolai to indicate that the Lord alone sustains the atma and helps to destroy the physical connections that bind the jivatma. It is only fitting that this body comprising the karmendriyas and the jnanendriyas, the subtle body and its attributes, the Moola prakriti, Mahat, ahamkara and mind, etc, is renounced by His grace.
Azhwar realises in all humility that if at all anyone can attain moksha, it is by His grace alone. Azhwar’s sentiments reflect the Lord’s impartial benevolence that extends to all jivatmas without any reason whatsoever.