Decad:28 Vaazhaa-p-paththu Sub-title: Muththi Ubaayam (Means to Deliverance) Abstract: In this decad-‘‘I will not live any longer”, the saint painfully appeals to God that he being deluded, does no know the path-way to thaw and melt in his mind for His Mercy and to live merged in Him. Secondly he deeply feels that he, due to delusion, forgot the grace which He bestowed on him and the Mercy with which He enslaved him. He is abusing himself as a cur and a perfidious one. Thirdly he pleads “Oh Civan of Thirupperunthurai! If You Who made me Your own, Yourself would not show me grace whom shall I blame? To whom shall I complain?” Finally the saint-surrendering both his mind and all the senses to Him and feeling reckless and restless, declares as an ultimatum, “Behold that I have none but You to cling to Behold that I do not wish to live any longer in this world” in all the ten stanzas of his decad. This decad therefore, is a plea to show him. His grace of saying “Come”. His request to be called up to Him and his repeated saying that he will not live in this world any longer, cannot be a “plea for death'.
