7. You within me, I within you.

Verse 7

நினைப்பதொன்று கண்டிலேன் நீயலாது வேறிலை

நினைப்புமாய் மறப்புமாய் நின்றமாயை மாயையோ?

அனைத்துமாய் அகண்டமாய் அனாதிமுன் அனாதியாய்

எனக்குள்நீ உனக்குள்நான் இருக்குமாற தெங்ஙனே!

Translation:

I do not see anything other than you to think about,

(You) remaining wonderfully as thought and lapse of it- is it an illusion/wonder?

As everything, supreme space and the eternity that precedes eternity,

You within me, I within you, how is it!

Commentary:

Civavākkiyar says that the only thing that he can think about is the Divine; nothing else as nothing else exists.  However, he does not think about the Divine at all times.  There are times when he forgets the Divine and thinks about something else. He wonders how this is possible as the only entity that is there to think about is the Divine. He calls this a wonder, the wonder that the same entity remains as thoughts and the lapse of it. Or is it an illusion?

He wonders in amazement how the Divine remains as everything, as the universe and as the eternity that precedes even eternity, that is, the Divine is beyond time. In the fourth line he points out another wonder. The Divine remains within him and he remains within It.  An entity can either encapsulate another entity or be encapsulated by it.  It cannot be the cover as well as that which is being covered. Civavākkiyar questions whether all these are wonders or illusion.