The Universe is only an idea. It is the Heart that takes all these forms. That is called the Witness wherein no ego or sense of personality remains. Appar (a great Tamil saint) was old and decrepit, yet he began to travel to Mount Kailas. Another old man appeared on the way and tried to dissuade him from the attempt saying that it was difficult to reach there. Appar was obstinate. The stranger then asked him to take a dip in a tank close by. Appar did so and found Kailas then and there. Where did this happen? In Tiruvaiyar, a place nine miles from Tanjore. If Tiruvaiyar be truly Kailas it must
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