In 2016 a Satsang held in the divine presence in California, USA. When asked about the mind
Here is what Swami said:
Everything has come from God. Even the mind has been created by God alone. Therefore, it is not you who created the mind in the first place. Creation is purely God’s and, therefore, even the mind is divine in its true nature. However, what you do is, like a child who wears fresh, bright clothes given to it by its mother in the morning, and gets them covered in dust and sand, playing in the field; by the time it gets home, the color of his clothes has totally changed because of the dirt. What does its mother do? She takes the clothes, washes them clean and gives them back, pure and bright.
The mind is a creation of God. The way you use it is in your hands. If you do not use it in the right way, it will become soiled, it will become impure and then, you have to turn towards God and say, “Lord, I am suffering because of my own mind, through the impurities that I have collected. Please clean it, please make it bright and tidy, so that I can be pure again and I can wear a clean and bright mind.”
Nothing in the world is wrong. Nothing in the world is bad. Everything in this world is divine. However, just as everything looks yellow to a person with jaundice and everything tastes bitter to someone with a fever, using the mind in the wrong way has caused the whole confusion. Everything was created pure, in the divine image, but the feeling of ‘I –ness’ arose in you. The easiest cure is to say to God, “You separated me from You so that I could experience Your magnificence, live for You and serve you. Please teach me how to return to You, serve You, love You and be pure. I have soiled the spotless things that were given to me. Please take them back from me and wash them clean and bright, as they were originally.”