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SENGOTTAI AVUDAI AKKAL
SENGOTTAI AVUDAI AKKAL TEACHINGS
செங்கோட்டை ஆவுடை அக்காள்
Is it reasonable to regard this ephemeral body as ‘I’, as ‘Me’?
The body, made of earth, water, fire, air, and space, is indeed but a corpse. Its existence is as uncertain as a water bubble. Yet, you beg here and there, becoming crazy in pursuit of its survival.
What assistance has the body rendered to you until now? O mind, tell me!
Like a person relying on a clay horse to cross a river, you have lost your reason – this is surely your ill luck!
Like those who suspend a cucumber safely on a hook for a long time, hoping it will stay fresh, you try to preserve this body by nurturing it well. But the Lord of Death will surely take it away.
Burdened with the body made of food – why are you...
செங்கோட்டை ஆவுடை அக்காள்
Is it reasonable to regard this ephemeral body as ‘I’, as ‘Me’?
The body, made of earth, water, fire, air, and space, is indeed but a corpse. Its existence is as uncertain as a water bubble. Yet, you beg here and there, becoming crazy in pursuit of its survival.
What assistance has the body rendered to you until now? O mind, tell me!
Like a person relying on a clay horse to cross a river, you have lost your reason – this is surely your ill luck!
Like those who suspend a cucumber safely on a hook for a long time, hoping it will stay fresh, you try to preserve this body by nurturing it well. But the Lord of Death will surely take it away.
Burdened with the body made of food – why are you...
