The Perumāḷ Tirumoḻi is the most dramatically varied work in the Nālāyira Divya Prabandham. Kulaśēkarāḻvār — a king who abdicated his throne for devotion — employs the technique of pāvana (persona-inhabitation) to speak as different characters from the sacred narratives: as Kauśalyā watching her son Rāma leave for exile, as a cuckoo and a bee sent as messengers to the sleeping Lord, as a fish in the Yamunā who wishes to be always in Kṛṣṇa's presence, as a mother overwhelmed by parental love.

Each of the eleven decads is a different emotional register, a different poetic convention, a different relationship between the devotee and the Lord. Together they form a complete portrait of devotion — not one mode of loving the Lord but all modes, inhabited from the inside.

The poem ends with its most radical declaration: taṇ tamiḻ aṟintavar tāmē — those who know cool Tamil shall themselves be saved. Tamil itself is the path.