THUS SPAKE SRI MAHAPERIYAVA OF KANCHI :-

" There are methods of cure where the medicine is administered only after one is made to starve. Even among crops, sometimes they are allowed to dry up and then only proper watering is done to cool them and make them grow better. It is the same situation here. We usually are in such a state where, in the mind, intellect and ahamkAra, thoughts, feelings and determinations arise as food for them. It is necessary first to dry them all up. By that very drying up the sprouting of love takes place by which that very ahamkAra becomes ready to be offered as food to something else. That is when it can be converted into Bhakti towards the Universal Source of all Life. "