Aridity Of The World

The Aridity of the World

• Only for the mad folk who are deluded, mistaking this fictitious world as a fact, and not for the jnani, is there anything to revel in except Brahman, which is Consciousness.
• Will those who are rooted in the Knowledge of Truth stray to worldly ways? Is it not the base and weak nature of animals that descends to the sensual pleasures of this unreal world?
• If you ask, "What is the benefit of sacrificing the innumerable sensual pleasures and retaining mere Consciousness?" [we reply that] the fruit of jnana is the eternal and unbroken experience of the Bliss of Self.
• Truly there is not the least happiness in any single worldly object, so how then is the foolish mind deluded into thinking that happiness comes from them?
• Fools are now so proud and happy of the wealth and pleasure of this world, which may at any time abandon them in disappointment and distress.
• Suffering from the heat of the three-fold desires, all living beings wander in the empty and arid desert of this dream world, which is created by the whirl of past tendencies. The shade of the Bodhi tree which can completely cool this heat is only Self, which shines as Turiya (the fourth state).

From Guru Vachaka Kovai by Sri Muruganar