In plain words
You are just yourself. What else are you doing sādhana for? The root cause of everything is the mind alone. It is this mind that gives man sorrow, trouble, Ānanda and Śānti. If you bring the mind under your control, everything comes under control. The experienced Patañjali Maharṣi taught this very thing well: “Yogaḥ citta vṛtti nirodhakaḥ.” Yoga does not mean Haṭha Yoga and the like; these are diseases. Yoga means joining, union itself. Yoga is my joining the Ātma. Once you have joined the Ātma, there is no Ānanda beyond that. It lives holding on merely to the body. It moves about holding on to the mind. It inquires holding on to the intellect. But it does not go near the Ātma. Once you go near this Ātma, the Ātma itself is at the highest level. That itself is at the uppermost level. If you reach it, there is no more journey at all. That itself is the last station. You must reach that station. The very first is the body; the second level, the senses; the third level, the mind. Then the intellect; and what lies beyond the intellect is the Ātma. You are not going even as far as the intellect. You are travelling only as far as the mind.
What is this mind? The mind is the gathering of the senses. You gather the senses, make them into a mind, and wither away in this mind in every way. So confusion and depression come from the mind alone. When these two come together, the feeling of the Ātma fuses. What is this body? It is a body made of the five elements. It is never true and eternal. You cannot tell what will happen to it at what minute, so do not lean on a body that is impermanent and passing. Through this attachment to the body, attachment to wealth grows too. Through this very attachment to wealth, attachment to qualities grows. Through this very attachment to qualities, infatuation of every kind arises. But today they said that learning and wealth are what matter. Learning is not bad. Wealth is not bad. See the good and the bad only in the person who uses it. This is water. What is the colour of this water? White: if you pour white water into a red bottle, it looks red.