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things to cool down. Water buffalos are more warm-blooded than the cows therefore they cannot tolerate as much sun. Cows and goats can tolerate it. So a water buffalo looks to see 'is there a cool place anywhere?' Don't people do the same too? They look for an air-conditioned room. So when the buffalo sees water in the ditch, she goes in and when she finds mud in there, she makes herself comfortable in the ditch.
So the buffalo goes and sits in it. On a hot day, the water gets warm but the mud inside remains cool. The buffalo sits in it peacefully. As she sits in it, the mud rises and covers her like a coat. Her whole body feels as if it has been placed in a refrigerator. The mud covers it completely up to her neck, leaving only her head exposed. Only her neck is sticking out and then she looks around. The coolness of the mud makes her feel as if she is sitting in a fridge. The buffalos sit in this kind of aircondition' and humans sit in their rooms with air-conditioners. Do you understand this? The buffalo feels as if she is sitting inside an air-conditioned room! She will not leave this 'fridge no matter what you give her.
Now the owner usually milks his buffalo at three in the afternoon so he starts to look for her and when he cannot 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 gets 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 realizes that for the time being she does not care and will not come out until she is enticed with something
else. So, he brings some un-ginned 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 of the mud. She will look but she will not budge. 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 garavata is? One can understand garavata only when the Gnani explains it. So, understand the exact meaning of what Krupadudev is saying. This analogy of the coolness of mud in the ditch is given as a comparison with the coolness people have found in the garavata of the worldly life. Many Sat Purush - enlightened beings and Gnanis - have said thus but people continue to sit in the garavata of the worldly life, they give mere lip service to spiritual talks and remain sitting in the 'fridge
The Sat Purush is not in such garavata. They do not remain in the fridge' anywhere. Even if you seat them in a 'fridge' or in a warm place, they will come out of it. They do not like such garavata. People on the other hand enjoy the garavata of the worldly life and remain in it all day long, they do not even go to listen to spiritual discourses. That apathy is garavata. People remain in worldly garavata and the buffalos remain in the other garavata. People's garavata is the pleasure of the five senses. Carefree! Therefore, the whole world is trapped in garavata.
