Sacrifice Of Mind

The Ribhu Gita (ऋभुगीता) forms the sixth part of Siva Rahasya Purana. It details in about two thousand verses the dialogue on the Self and Brahman between Sage Ribhu (who in turn heard it from Lord Shiva Himself) and Sage Nidagha on the slopes of the Mount Kedara in the Himalayas. (source: wikipedia). 

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• Anything seen as other than Brahman-Self is bound to cause fear and trouble. Therefore, it behooves one to stick to the single attitude that everything sensed is Brahman-Self alone. In due course even this one thought must be given up, in order to firmly abide in the free undisturbed blissful state of the sole Brahman-Self.
• The total discarding of the mind is alone victory, achievement, bliss, yoga, wisdom and liberation. The sacrifice of the mind is, in fact, the totality of all sacred sacrifices.
• The firm denial of the existence of the mind and the firm belief in the existence of Brahman-Self is the sure way to the conquest of mind, leading to the experience of the sole effulgent Self.
• If one gives the slightest room for the though that the mind exists, pure Awareness itself will vibrate as the ruffled mind, which is the parent of all trouble and illusions. Therefore, one should ever abide in the conviction that there is no mind, and that the pure Awareness-Self is the sole Existence. This is the easy way to conquer the mind with all its vagaries.
• There is no such thing as the troublesome mind, no world of names and forms, not the least bit of ego. All these are nothing but the perfect Brahman-Self, which I am. In this conviction one should abide firmly, until one achieves the state of sleepless state which is alert-peace-eternal.

From "The Essence of Ribhu Gita" by Prof. N. R. Krishnamurthi Aiyer