From Guru Vachaka Kovai

• The deceptive I am the body idea alone makes the world, which is an appearance of names and forms, seem real, and thereby it at once binds itself with desires (for the world).
• Since this world of dyads and triads appears only in the mind, like the illusory ring of fire formed (in darkness) by whirling the single point of a glowing rope-end, it is false, and it does not exist in the clear sight of Self.
• Like the illusory yellow seen by a jaundiced eye, the whole world that you see before you is the product of your own mind, which is full of deceptive vices such as desire (anger, lust and so on). In reality, however, it is a plenitude of pure jnana.
• This world is a mere illusion seen in the deluded objective sight of the ego, which is simply the I am the body idea. In the sight of Self-Knowledge, however, it is as false as the apparent blueness in the sky.

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From Guru Vachaka Kovai by Sri Muruganar