The individualised consciousness (the mind) has arisen in the supreme being, O Rama: it is both different and non-different from the infinite consciousness even as a wave is different and non-different from the ocean.

To the enlightened the mind is the absolute Brahman and naught else. To the unenlightened, the mind is the cause of repetitive history (samsara).

When dualistic concepts are used by us, O Rama, it is only to facilitate instruction: the division is not real.

 

- Yoga Vāsiṣṭha