In plain words
It created Bombay. It created your mother and father. It created your friends. It created all the bazaars. It only created; it is not experiencing anything.
The Mansions and Houses Seen in a Dream Are Not There When You Open Your Eyes, Are They!
In Bombay you saw everything, Marine Drive and the rest. But by daybreak there is no scene at all. You watched all the games in Shivaji Park. But when you get up at daybreak, not a single one is to be seen. You went along Kali Temple Road and saw Dharmakṣetra. When you get up at daybreak, you are right here in Prasanthi Nilayam. Who saw this? Who experienced it? Who made it be experienced? Is it all the mind? So it stages plays of many kinds. All that we did, all that we saw, is only fashioned out of what is seen; none of it is bound to the heart. What you see is one thing, what you do another; what you read is one thing, what you do another. There are students here. You are reading text books. The teachers teach well. You are taking degrees. Jobs come your way. You have entered a job. But what use are you making in that job of what you studied? You bring not the least of what you studied here into the job there. Why these studies? You must have the strength and capacity to put what you studied to use in society. You merely think, ‘Some service or other has come my way; my stomach will be filled.’ The family merely gets along. Life goes by. We think this alone is enough. No one, whoever he may be, tries to enquire into the truth of it: ‘What did I study? What am I doing? What comes of this study?’ We must put our education to proper use in the society we were born into. You cooked a meal in the kitchen. Everything tastes good. You cooked ever so many kinds of dishes. But the result comes only when you bring it out and serve it to the guest who has come to the dining hall, does it not? If you leave what you made in the kitchen in the kitchen itself and take the guest off to a hotel, why have the cooking done at all?