Dr. Syed on another day asked: “Should any one desirous of spiritual progress take to action or renunciation (pravritti-mārga or nivritti-mārga)?”
M.: Do you go out of the Self? What is meant by giving up?
An American Engineer asked about (association with sages).
M.: is within us.
D.: In the book “Who am I?” you have said the Heart is the seat of the mind. Is it so?
M.: The mind is .
D.: Is it itself or its projection?
M.: The same.
D.: The Westerners look on the mind as the highest principle, whereas the Easterners think the contrary— why?
M.: Where psychology ends, there philosophy begins. This is experience; the mind is born; we see it; even without the mind we exist. There is everyone’s experience to prove it.
D.: In deep sleep I do not seem to exist.
M.: You say so when awake. It is the mind which speaks now. You exist in deep sleep beyond mind.
D.: Western philosophy admits the Higher Self as influencing the mind.