The hymn is composed in a number of poetic metres, expressive of the themes of faith and the philosophical idealisation of the deity.

[5] Vedanta Desika is regarded to have composed this work when he visited the temple of Krishna located at Tiruvahindrapuram.

The work is written in a tone of wonder at the numerous forms of the deity, offering imagery in his role of a mischievous child, a toddler who steals butter, a trickster, dancer, a cowherd who plays the flute, a slayer of malicious beings, as well as a handsome lover of the gopis, all the while concealing his divinity.

These identities of the deity are juxtaposed, both conceived as a child and God, great and small, and an unknowable entity and an intimate lover.

[8] In one of the stanzas of the hymn, the poet exclaims his love for Krishna:[9] You are the shortest pathto liberation,a dark monsoon cloud that hangs over the forestrainingjoy and wealthA bamboo flute thrills at the touchof your ruddylower lip:I love youand worship you,root cause of creationpure compassionin the bodyof a man.