From mukunda maala stotram of Kulasekara Azhwar

Courtesy: Smt.Saroja Ramanujam

3.mukundha moorDhnaa pranipathya yache
bhavantham ekaantham iyantham arTham
avismrthih thvaccharaNaaravindhe
bhave bhave me asthu thavaprasaadhaath

"He Mukundha! with my head lowered in salutation I entreat you only this much. In all my lives to come, let me not forget your lotus-feet."

The Lord is both upaaya, the means of attaining Him and upeya the end, that is He Himself. That is why to get bhakthi we have to pray to Him alone. "அவனருளால் அவன் தாள் வணங்கி" as the saying goes in Tamil. The Upanishad says 'yamevaisha vrNuthe thena labhyathe,' only the one whom He chooses will attain Him. Hence azvar prays to the Lord to have remembrance of His lotus feet in all lives to come. The devotee is not worried about mukthi but is quite satisfied to be born again and again only if in every janma he will have unshakeable bhakthi towards the Lord. Andal after her pavai nonbu did not ask salvation but only that they should belong to Him and serve Him alone in seven times seven janmas. "இற்றைக்கும் ஏழேழ் பிறவிக்கும்உன்தன்னோடு உற்றோமே ஆவோம் உனக்கே நாம் ஆட்செய்வோம்."
Kulasekara says, ekaantham iyantham arTham, "I ask only this much." But this is like Arjuna asking Krishna that he did not want his army or even his help in fighting but it is enough if Krishna agrees simply to be with him to which the Lord said that He will be the charioteer. What else one wants other than that? If the Lord becomes our charioteer in the sense that He leads the way for us, what more is needed? And whatever one gets, other than the devotion of the Lord, by which he becomes our charioteer, is worthless like the army Duryodhana opted from Krishna. This term ekaantham iyantham arTham includes all!

4.naaham vandhe thava charaNayoh
dhvandham adhvandhva hethoh
kumbeepaakam gurumapi hare
naarakam naapanethum
ramyaaraamaa mrdhuthanulathaa
nandhane naapi ranthum
bhaave bhaave hrdhayabhavane
bhaavayeyam bhavantham

"I do not bow to your two feet for the sake of mukthi, nor for escaping from the fierce hell called KumbheepAka, nor to enjoy the company of young women while being here but I do it only for having you in the abode of my heart in every life I may yet have."
Here in this sloka, the Azvar explains the reason of his worshipping the Lord. The reward he expects as a result of bhakthi is only bhakthi itself. Normally people resort to worship either for attaining salvation or to escape from hell which they fear, thinking of the sins they have committed knowingly or unknowingly, or to enjoy a good life in this world while living. But Azvar says that he does not want any of these, but only thing he prays for is to have the Lord firmly established in his mind in this life and in the lives to come. He said in his PerumaL thirumozhi, a part of the Divyaprabhandha 'padiyaai ninru un pavaLavaai kANbEnE,'(nalayiram-686) to Lord Venkatesvara. He wanted only to be the step in the temple in front of the Lord of Thirumala and see him always, and did not care for mukthi.

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