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. 
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