What can I tell him? What Is, is the Self. It is all-pervading. When I tell him that it is called ‘Heart’ he says there is no room in it for him to stay. What can I do? ‘To say that there is no room in the heart after filling it with unnecessary vasanas* is like grumbling that there is no room to sit down in a house as big as Sri Lanka. If all the junk is thrown out, won’t there be room? The body itself is junk. These people are like a man who fills all the rooms of his house chokeful with unnecessary junk and then complains that there is no room for keeping his body in it. In the same way they fill the mind with all sorts of impressions and then say there is no room for the Self in it. If all the false ideas and impressions are swept away and thrown out what remains is a feeling of plenty and that is the Self itself. Then there will be no such thing as a separate ‘I’ it will be a state of egolessness. Where then is the question of a room or an occupant of the room? Instead of seeking the Self people say, ‘no room! no room’, just like shutting your eyes and saying there is ‘no sun! no sun!’. What can one do under such circumstances?” *
vasana: The impression unconsciously left on the mind by past good or bad actions, which therefore produces pleasure or pain