From The Garland - 125

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om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

125

Like one who takes a crocodile

For a boat and with its help

Tries to cross a river are those

Who while they pamper the trivial flesh

Claim also that they are earnest seekers

Of the living Self.

Give up the thought that this frail body

Is the Self. Pursue the Self

Which is eternal bliss. To seek It,

While cherishing the perishable

Body, is like trying to cross

A river using a crocodile

For a raft.

­­­ Sri Bhagavan 1

(Sri Muruganar's The Garland of Guru's Sayings - Trans. Prof. K. Swaminathan, Tiruvannamalai; 1996)