For most of us, the mind is a thinking vehicle, a tool for the thinking process, but in yoga, mind is more than that. When the mind is in a state of dissipation, it creates problems for itself. When the mind is in a state of unhappiness, it creates a disaster for itself. But when the same mind is tamed through the practice of yoga, it becomes a creator, a solid creator. Even as it created problems and disasters in its dissipated state, it can create matter, objects and things in this higher state.
In yoga, the mind is not only a tool for thinking, it is homogeneous consciousness. When you take matter and disintegrate it, finally nuclear energy is produced. In the same way, when the mind is purified through the act of meditation, and when all that remains is the mind and not the worldly desires and associations, then the mind becomes potential shakti, potential power. That is how the mind becomes creative.
16 October 1978, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia