" Saw The male elepahant with its lady love "( How can we translate Kaliru and Pidi as just male and female elephants.)
Let me try to atleast tell the background of the song.
Appar at that old age, went to have darshan of Mt Kailsh. After Srisailam - ( Or varanasi, which is a vaipu thalam) lord came as an old man asked him to take a dip in the tank near by and assured of the Kailash at " Thiruvaiyaru"
Appar took a dip in that pond and got up at Thiruvaiyaru. He saw the whole universe as Shiva and Parvathi.
The sublime meaning has to be experianced. Could not be translated.
( Paramacharya had quiped that both Sufi saints and Christian Mystiques had the same experiance.saw the whole world as the God himself)