In English
To have proper results, take experience as the basis. Experience comes out of the heart, not from outside. You don’t need to struggle for experience. Don’t do experiments. In the field of science, you can expect certain results by performing experiments. But in the spiritual field, there are no experiments, only experience. How do you get experience? You carry sugar in your hand and put it in a tumbler of water. The sugar settles down at the bottom of the tumbler. When you stir it and mix it with water, you cannot see it with your eyes; you cannot catch it in your hand. How do you decide whether the sugar is present in the water or not? You put a drop of water on your tongue and taste it. Then you come to know that sugar is present in the water. Similarly, the body is a vessel; Divinity is the sugar. It is not possible to see Divinity with your eyes. You cannot catch or hold it. But you can experience its bliss. Through this experience, you can know the presence of Divinity within you. Here is fire. It is covered by ash. Why has the ash covered the fire? It has covered the fire because we have neglected it. Where did the ash come from? It came from fire only. Ash that came out of the fire covered the fire. If you blow it off, the ash will go, and you will see the fire. Similarly, the fire of Divinity is present within you, but you have neglected it. Therefore, the ash of illusion has covered it. So, you are not able to visualise the Divinity within you. Blow off the ash of illusion through renunciation; then you will see the fire of Divinity. Fire has not come afresh from somewhere. It was already there within you. Similarly, there is Divinity in the form of the Atmic principle in everyone. People today protect and decorate only the chariot of their body which is drawn by the horses of the senses. It is however necessary to control the horses. Keep the horses of senses under control. Who controls these horses? It is the mind that should control the senses. Since the mind controls the senses ( ), the mind is also called . Basing on this, it has been said: is control of mental modifications ( ). People control other things. The government exercises control over property, food, and, in fact, everything. But no heed is paid toward controlling the mind. For that reason, we face troubles. If the mind is under control, there is no need to control other things; they get controlled on their own.