OmniLight Invocations 365

Arutperunjothi Agaval: Couplet 360:

ஓவுறா வெழுவகை யுயிர்முத லனைத்தும்

ஆவகை வகுத்த வருட்பெருஞ் ஜோதி

The seven types of sentient bodies in innumerable variations

And their respective forms of life,

The OmniLight of Supreme Compassion ceaselessly organizes their emergence and perpetuation.

Note: As Ramalingam has specified in his incomplete essay on the ethic of compassion, the seven types of sentient bodies in innumerable variations and respective forms of life are: Devas or dwellers of celestial worlds, humans, Narakars or dwellers of underworlds, walkers or quadrupeds (e.g., animals such as horses, tigers) flyers (e.g., birds), crawlers or creatures which use undulatory locomotion (e.g., snakes, lizards, marine creatures), and living beings which generally lack locomotion (e.g., plants, trees, corals).