You will only be what you are!

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Visitor: I am unable to keep my mind steady.

The Master quoted from "Upadesa Sara": Continuous search for what the mind is results in its disappearance. That is the straight path.

V. How to search for the mind then?

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the 'I-thought'. He quoted, "Whoever investigates the origin of the 'I-thought', for him the ego perishes. This is the true investigation." The true "I" is then found shining by itself.

V. This 'I-thought' rises from me. But I do not know the Self.

All these are only mental concepts. You are now identifying yourself with a wrong 'I', which is the 'I-thought'. This 'I-thought' rises and sinks, whereas the true significance of 'I' is beyond both. There cannot be a break in your being. You, who slept, are also now awake. There was not unhappiness in your deep sleep. Whereas it exists now. What is it that has happened now so that this difference is experienced? There was no 'I-thought' in your sleep, whereas it is present now. The true 'I' is not apparent and the false 'I' is parading itself. This false 'I' is the obstacle to your right knowledge. Find out wherefrom this false 'I' arises. Then it will disappear. You will be only what you are - Absolute Being.