In English
To those of you who are new and who have come here for the first time, it is necessary to convey in a full manner what the significance of all this is; and, there-fore, I am going to give you another somewhat familiar example, which some of you may have heard earlier. This thing I have in my hand is a piece of cloth. All of you accept that it is a piece of cloth. But in my view, this is not a piece of cloth. This is a bundle of threads. If you look at it from another point of view, this is not even a bundle of threads but it is just some cotton. Cotton, thread and cloth, all these three are basically the same. So, in a similar manner, the sense organs, the mind and the intelligence are all going to unite into one; and we will have a situation when we have to refer to just one and the same thing. Just as curd, butter and buttermilk have all come from one and the same source, what you have in your mind as the basis, the foundation or as the source is simply the original from which all the transformations have come. If we now decide to do something by which we want to make this cloth disappear, some of you may wish to set fire to it and the cloth will disappear. But that process is not the right one.