Hymn to Siva - Verse 80-83

There is a great pain in this birth, O gentle one. It is attended by old age and sorrow. Life, death and birth occur again and again. This world is a dream. Even in heaven there are miseries. On realising the tortures of hell, the advent and the inevitability of events and seeing that Rbhu and Sanatana were under your control, the three sons Sanaka and others eschewed the three gunas (the creative ingredients) and attaining knowledge of the illusory nature of the world, they renounced the world. When they had renounced the world you were deluded by the Maya of Sankara.