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sitting in a fridge. The buffalos sit in this kind of air-condition and humans sit in their rooms with air-conditioner. Do you understand this? The buffalo feels as if it is sitting inside an airconditioned room.
Now the buffalo will not leave this 'fridge', no matter what you offer it. The owner usually milks the buffalo at three in the afternoon so he starts to look for her and when he cannot not find her anywhere, he comes to the ditch. When he sees her sitting in the ditch, he wonders how she is ever going to come out. He brings her some hay and tries to entice her, standing at the edge of the ditch, 'Come get it, come and get it.' The buffalo raises her ears, looks at him and turns her head away but she will not get up. Every day she get excited when she sees hay but today she is being obstinate. What is so good about that water? It is the 'coolness of the fridge'! Is she likely to come out from the 'air conditioning and go back into the scorching heat of the sun? This is called garavata. The owner realizes he cannot tempt her with just hay, so he might try offering something tastier, perhaps then she will get up. He realises that she does not care for the time being and will not come out until she is enticed with something else. So, he brings some unginned cotton and jaggery, and shows it to her. He occasionally feeds her this and so he shows it to her, to see if she recognizes it. She sees it and knows what it is, but no matter what, she will not move away from this garavata! She does not budge. She will not pay attention to anything because the pleasure she feels in the ditch is not to be found anywhere else. That is why she will not come out from the mud. She will look but she will not budge from there. She thinks to herself, 'Who would leave such pleasure?' This verily is garavata.
This is considered the pleasure of garavata. This is how everyone in the world takes pleasure in the garavata of the worldly life. They will not come out of it. Men and women do not budge at all! How can they when they believe the worldly life to be the 'fridge just as the water buffalo does? Do you understand what is garavata? One can understand garavata only when the Gnani explains it. So, understand the exact meaning of what Krupadudev is saying. He is comparing the coolness of the ditch that with the coolness of the world. Many Sat Purush - enlighthtened beings and Gnanis have said so but people continue to sit in the garavata of the worldly life, they give mere lip service to the spiritual talks and remain sitting in the 'fridge.
