The happiness of the drop is to die in the river

Al Ghazali

Core Meanings & Themes

  • Surrender of the Ego: The “drop” represents the individual ego, isolated identity, or the separate “self.” Holding on to a distinct, separate identity creates limitation and suffering.
  • Returning to the Source: When the drop dissolves into the river (or ocean), it does not truly perish; instead, it loses its fragile separation and merges into a vast, eternal expanse.
  • True Fulfillment: Real peace and joy come not from guarding or inflating the individual ego, but from letting go and allowing oneself to flow into something infinitely greater (the Universe, God, or ultimate reality)

காயிலே புளிப்பதென்னே

காயிலே புளிப்பதென்னே? கண்ண பெருமானே – நீ
கனியிலே இனிப்பதென்னே? கண்ண பெருமானே – நீ
நோயிலே படுப்பதென்னே? கண்ண பெருமானே – நீ
நோன்பிலே உயிர்ப்பதென்னே? கண்ண பெருமானே – நீ

காற்றிலே குளிர்ந்ததென்னே? கண்ண பெருமானே – நீ
கனலிலே சுடுவதென்னே? கண்ண பெருமானே – நீ
சேற்றிலே குழம்பலென்ன? கண்ண பெருமானே – நீ
திக்கிலே தெளிந்ததென்னே? கண்ண பெருமானே – நீ

Why are you sour when unripe, Oh Kanna,
Why are you sweet when ripe, Oh Kanna.

Why do you fall sick and lie down, Oh Kanna,
Why do you get life energy in penance, Oh Kanna

Why are you cold during winds, Oh Kanna,
Why are you hot amidst embers , Oh Kanna

Why are you slushy in mud, Oh Kanna,
Why are you clear in all directions, Oh Kanna

Such beautiful verses where Bharatiyar sees Krishna in everything. In life and death. In joy and sorrow. As the sourness in unripened fruits. As the sweetness in ripened fruits and so on.

Consciousness is prior to subject-object split

Consciousness is the common ground of all these different experiences.
It is prior to subject-object split.
Now I’m the subject of experience. Of course you are the object of my experience and I’m the object of your experience. When I look at the world, I see a tree, I see a star. I see a galaxy. Those are the objects of my experience.

But of course, there must be something that is more fundamental to subject and object of experience.

Science, as we practice it, is a subject object split exercise. Also, not only that, the scientist is an observer. You know the observing self cannot be located by science. But the scientist is the observer. The scientist’s consciousness is the observer and the universe is the observed. That already leads, by the way, to an incomplete view of reality. Right there. Because you excluded a huge component of the observation process. The observing self.

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