The verse presents a soteriological and alchemical “method” under the name kanaka-mārga (“golden path”). “Gold” functions on at least two levels: (1) as literal Siddha alchemy (rasavāda), where a perfected substance and perfected practitioner are said to effect transmutation; and (2) as an inner transformation where the coarse mind/body is refined into clarity, steadiness, and liberating knowledge.

1) Ethical and psychological preparation: The instruction to avoid “kalakkam” (confusion) and not to “play by mixing” with the karvis points to restraint: either the sensory instruments (karuvi/karuvi-gaḷ) that scatter attention, or pride/egoic impulses (karvam) that corrupt practice. “Leaving the merciless” frames compassion (irakkam) as a prerequisite: siddhi without compassion is treated as barren or dangerous.

2) Epistemic discipline: “Ilakkamilā ilakkiyam”—literature without a ‘target’—criticizes mere textualism or ornamented learning that does not culminate in realization. The verse does not necessarily reject scripture, but demotes any learning that does not aim at inner transformation.

3) Guru-centered yoga: “Melting” and “merging inwardly at the Guru’s feet” indicates bhakti fused with internalization. In Siddhar idiom, the Guru’s “feet” can be literal devotion, but also a cryptic reference to the foundational locus where practice is grounded (the stable base of awareness, or the subtle support where prāṇa and attention are placed).

4) ‘Mirror within mirror’: This image suggests layered interiority—awareness reflecting upon itself, progressively subtler self-recognition, or the nested subtle bodies (gross/subtle/causal) seen as successive reflections. It can also hint at the paradox of the seer seeing itself (a reflexive cognition), which is often described as endlessly deepening like mirrors facing mirrors.

5) Solar radiance and the hand: Praising the Sun’s rays can be read as external solar worship (sūrya-upāsanā), but in Siddha-yogic symbolism it frequently points to the inner ‘Sun’—digestive fire, kuṇḍalinī heat, or the luminous intelligence that ‘ripens’ the body-mind. Receiving it “in the palm” can imply practical work: the hand as agent of medicine/alchemy, the hand as mudrā, or the embodied capacity to ‘hold’ and apply the refined energy.

6) “Whatever you touch becomes gold”: This is the promise of a perfected state. Literally, it echoes iatrochemical/alchemical claims of transmutation. Metaphorically, it describes a mind so purified that every contact becomes wisdom and every act becomes auspicious—ordinary experience is ‘golden’ because it is no longer mixed with confusion, pride, or cruelty. Calling it “vādam/vaatham” marks it as a specific Siddha doctrine or technical path (often associated with rasavāda traditions), while still allowing a philosophical reading as the ‘argument/teaching’ of transformation.