"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Controlling the Mind

Sri Ramana Maharshi

There is no other way of controlling the mind except as prescribed in the books like the Gita, drawing in the mind as often as it strays or goes outward, and fixing it in the Self. Of course it will not be easy to do it. It will come only with practice or sadhana

God illumines the mind and shines with it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

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