Speaking to a friend and devotee of Agathiyar who is a Chartered Accountant just moments ago, I shared what Agathiyar had told us about Udal, Uyir, and Atma some time back and how we are the Jeevatma that seeks to merge in the source or Paramatma. He simplified our understanding of the Atma. He immediately brought me back to the school days when we read about Sets and Subsets in Maths. If the Set was the Param then the Subset is the Jeeva. The Jeeva is a Subset of the Param as it shares certain elements of the parent Set. The Jeeva once it gains all the elements of the Param it itself becomes the Param.
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Ramalinga Adigal sings of God's grace in showering him the treasures and goes on to sing of the merger when the Subset takes on the elements of the Set by the grace or Arul of Arutperunjothi in the verses of his Agaval. The Agaval is a song of the Prapanjam, Grace, Praise, and Gratitude. It melts our hearts and truly transforms the listener.