Q: What do you do when reality talks back?
A: Burn it down and kill it!
Q: OK, what will be left?
A: Only good things!
Q: OK, where will you live?
A: Anywhere I want!
Q: OK, will it be real?
A: Of course it will, I want it!
Q: OK, will I be there?
A: Of course not, you’re a racist!
Q: OK, where will the real me be?
A: Burned down and killed, by me!
Q: OK, will I be real then?
A: Of course not, you’ll be a dead racist pile of ashes!
Q: OK, then where will you live, in a pile of dead racist ashes?
A: Say, wait a minute, I see, no wait, you’re a racist!
Q: OK, where is reality, along with me, when you burn us down and kill us and still want a place to live?
A: That’s a trick question, nativist!
Q: OK, but seriously, where will you live when you have burned down and killed reality?
A: I’m not answering any more questions because you’re a misogynist!
A: OK, but I think you will.

An able monarch will have his ministers under control; he will direct them along proper lines and maintain peace and security of the kingdom. On the other hand, a monarch who allows himself to be controlled by ministers does not deserve the throne; he is spurned and disgraced. His kingdom has no peace and security. The mind is the monarch in man; senses are ministers. If the mind is the slave of its senses, you will have no peace. Every spiritual aspirant who aspires to achieve expression and expansion of the Divine in oneself must therefore earn mastery over the senses. That is the first step. The next one is the conquest of the mind, its elimination. The third is uprooting the vasanas (innate tendencies), and the fourth, attainment of jnana (spiritual wisdom). The branches are the senses; the trunk is the mind; and the roots are innate tendencies. All three must be overcome and destroyed, so that awareness of the Divine Reality can be gained.