"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

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Seek Self, Destroy Mind

Sri Ramana Maharshi


Make effort. Just as water is got by boring a well, so also you realize the Self by investigation.
Q. Yes. But some find water readily and others with difficulty.
But you already see the moisture on the surface. You are hazily aware of the Self. Pursue it. when the effort ceases the Self shines forth.
Q. How to train the mind to look within?
By practice. The mind is the intelligent phase leading to its own destruction, for Self to manifest.
Q. How to destroy the mind?
Water cannot be made dry water. Seek the Self; the mind will be destroyed.

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