Cecad: 5 Thiruththoji-nokkam (Sacred shoulder gazing) Sub-title: Prapancha suddhi Abstract: Prapancham, the world, is made up of the animate and the inanimate objects in which God is mingled and manifested in eight ways including man and his senses(15:5). Purifying the world means perhaps purification of the soul. In order to purify the soul one must melt one's mind into which God shall condescend out of mercy to guide him to the right path as in the case of our saint(15:4), become God-imbued, and must surrender to Him completely. Then He is sure to transform all his acts into divine acts of consecration (15:6) and thereby purify the soul as He did in the case of Sandeswarar who acquired purity even for slashing off the legs of his own father (15:7). The saint has sung how God-Civan performed lustrations by the sacrifice of the body of Cupid, the life of the god of death and the head of even Brahma etc. (15:11) in purifying the world. Further the saint has pointed out the offering of even one's own eye for God, like Maal and Kannappan in their transcendent acts in the worship of Civan(15:10,3) indicating perhaps His purification in wiping out the ego in claiming his supremacy as Param (15:12) by the former, and His Mercy when He instantaneously emerged out to prevent the latter from scooping out his second eye too! These illustrations among other things perhaps depict the content of the sub-title namely “purification of world”, of this decad.
