Mr. B. C. Das, the Physics Lecturer, asked: “Yoga means union. I wonder union of which with which.”
M.: Exactly. Yoga implies prior division and it means later union of one with another. Who is to be united with whom? You are the seeker, seeking union with something. That something is apart from you. Your Self is intimate to you. You are aware of the Self. Seek it and be it. That will expand as the Infinite. Then there will be no question of , etc. Whose is the separation (viyoga)? Find it.
D.: Are the stones, etc. destined to be always so?
M.: Who sees stones? They are perceived by your senses, which are in turn actuated by your mind. So they are in your mind. Whose mind is it? The questioner must find it himself. If the Self be found this question will not arise.
The Self is more intimate than the objects. Find the subject, and the objects will take care of themselves. The objects are seen by different persons according to their outlook and these theories are evolved. But who is the seer, the cogniser of these theories? It is you. Find your Self. Then there is an end of these vagaries of the mind.
D.: What is this mind?
M.: A bundle of thoughts.
D.: Wherefrom has it its origin?
M.: Consciousness or the Self.
D.: Then thoughts are not real.
M.: They are not; the only reality is the Self.