Man feels a compulsion by nature and a will to live and when he lives an intergrated and balanced life and avoids the wantoness of excess, misery flees from him. If one sees misery in life it is the creation of his pessimistic outlook. It is the mind that makes a hell or heaven of this world. Death is a phenomenon which we see all around us every day. But the poet here declares that death is not a new phenomenon.
Death comes as a process of change for the better.
It is universal and there is nothing in it to be alarmed at or to be considered as misery. The water in the stream at any one moment at any one place is not the same at another moment. There is constant change but it marks a continuous progress. Without change there is no progress but only stagnation. Consistent with this attitude towards life, the Tamilian ascribed complete freedom of action or free will for man and cast on him the full responsibility for all his actions in this life.