Decad: 24 Adaikkalappaththu (Decad of taking refuge in God) Sub-title: Pakkuva Ninnayarn (Assessing Maturity) Abstract: In this Decad of taking refuge in God, the saint sings that the ripe-minded devotees who joined His Feet went along with HIm(1). They ascended to heaven from the flood of sorrow by catching hold of the raft of His Feet(4). Those devotees who never departed from Him reached His Feet and gained eternal Bliss (9). An appropriate reference may be made here. The saint sings elsewhere “That day when His grace-receiving devotees mingled and joined themselves to Him, He merged and mingied with them in perfectunion in His grace” (2:130). The saint compares himself with them and deplores how he instead of going along with Him, got himself in the wiles of women (4,5,7). He is pained that neither his body which breeds sin(5) nor is his mind pure(1). He is worried that due to his Karma he is not able to swallow the sweet Ambrosia welling up in him (10) in plenty by His grace (5). God bestows in His grace blissful Ambrosia to swell in him. The saint strives to imbibe it eagerly but he is not able to gulp it. The saint sings here that he is suffering in the same way as he said in the “Decad of I am not yet dead (23:10)”.
