In plain words
That is the end of milk! That is what was called ‘Vedānta’.
The end of the Vedas is Jñāna alone!
What does Vedānta mean? The end of the Vedas: Vedānta. What is meant by the end of the Vedas? That is Jñāna. The end of Jñāna is Kaivalya. What does this Jñāna mean? ‘The vision of non-duality is Jñāna.’ Only that which abides as oneness is Jñāna. Now, the end of milk is ghee. We boil the milk. Cream came. We made it into curd. Then when that curd was churned, butter came. After the butter was heated, ghee came. Once the ghee has come, what is there to do? Only to eat it! So milk can be made into curd. Curd can be turned into butter. Butter can be made into ghee. But what more can you make of ghee? Nothing at all can be done with it. So the final form of milk is ghee. In the same way, by searching and searching the Veda, the ghee called Jñāna is gained. So the end of the Vedas is Jñāna alone! If something else comes after it, that is not the end. Whatever state there is that undergoes no change of any other kind, that alone is the end. This is what they have been calling ‘Mīmāṃsā’. Not māṃsa. Mīmāṃsā. What does Mīmāṃsā mean? The final decision that comes with inquiry!
The wish-fulfilling tree grows in the very field called our heart
As long as there is badness in man, this foul smell does not go. That is what are called ‘vāsanās’. ‘The vāsanā of your past births is hunting you down!’ they say. Even when the butter has come away leaving the milk, leaving the curd, leaving everything, there is still a smell in it. What is that smell? Only the vāsanās of the objects of this world! Because that has got mixed with it, it has gone on spoiling even pure butter. It must be separated. There are two examples here. If you take milk and water to be good friends, sometimes the water does not like to leave the milk. But the milk, for its part, tries to leave the water. This milk is God. The water is prāṇa. These two stay joined. A small example.