Decad-51 Achchop-Pathikam (Decad of amazement) Sub-title: Arubava vazhi ariyaarnai (Not knowing how the experience came) (Sung at Thillai) Achcho =a word of exclamation expressing amazement, pathikan=decad. Anubava(m)=Experience, vazhi=way. ariyaamai = not knowing. This decad of amazement of asionishment mingled with wonder and gratitude is made up of ten verses of four lines each in Kali Viruththam metre. “Who else could gain such a privilage which my Father in His Grace vouch-safed me by teaching the path of devotion-loving piety--to me who was laboriously striving in the company of cussed men who did not know the path of salvation, ridding my reasoning mind of the bonds that my old Karma be wiped off, making me His own and ultimately transforming me into Civan (Bliss) Himself?” (51:1) "Who else, indeed, could gain such a Grace bestowed on me that I may see the mystic dance of the Dancer Whom no signs describe, that I who am mistaking the path which is no path, as the right path, may not go into the wrong paths but may reach, the sacred Grace only?” (51-2) B55
