Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
My Guru ordered me to attend to the sense 'I am' and to give attention to nothing else. I just obeyed. I did not follow any particular course of breathing, or meditation, or study of scriptures. Whatever happened, I would turn away my attention from it and remain with the sense 'I am'. It may look too simple, even crude. My only reason for doing it was that my Guru told me so. Yet it worked!
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When I read this, I am reminded of a Bhagavad Gita sloka from chapter 6 (dhyAna yogA)
tatas tato niyamaitad Atman eva vasham nayet
For whatsoever reason this wavering and fickle mind wanders away, it should be curbed and brought to abide in the Self alone.
(Thus, ever engaged in making the mind steadfast in spiritual communion and having all the impurities of the mind effaced thereby, the Yogin easily experiences the intense Bliss of contact with Brahman.)
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