When there is darkness all around, then there is all the more need for Naam Japa and clinging to the Divine.
Inner dryness is generally due to the vital losing interest in life because some desire has been denied or frustrated. But the true seeker of the Divine is happy within and takes it as a Grace that is freeing us forcibly from attachment to false and transient things. One has to grow conscious of the real reason for the dryness, the inner cause of the unhappiness, the desire that is hiding behind the desert. Once conscious he must throw the desire into the flame of aspiration with the Divine Name upon it.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
