From Guru Vachaka Kovai

• How does this false and villainous vast world, that cheats and ravages the minds of all people (except the wise), come into existence? Because of no reason other than our own mistake in falling from, instead of clinging to, Self-attention.
• This life, an illusion based upon likes and dislikes, is an empty dream, which appears, as if real, during the sleep (of ignorance), but which is found to be false when one wakes up (into Self-Knowledge).
• As the fire shines hidden within the smoke, the Light of Knowledge shines hidden within the names and forms of this world. When the mind is made clear by Supreme Grace, the nature of the world is found to be real (as Self), and it will appear no more as the illusory names and forms.

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From Guru Vachaka Kovai (Collection of Guru's Sayings by Sri Muruganar, disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi)