The gross body is only the concrete form of the subtle stuff: mind

The gross body is only the concrete form of the subtle stuff: mind.

Q: How can we restrain the mind?

M: Will a thief hand over a thief? Will the mind find itself? The mind cannot seek the mind. You have ignored what is real and are holding onto the mind which is unreal, and are also trying to find out what it is.

Was the mind there in your sleep? It was not, but it is here now. The mind is therefore impermanent. Can you find the mind? The mind is not you.

You think you are the mind, and therefore you ask me how it can be restrained. If it is there, it can be checked. But it is not. Understand this truth by your own search. You will discover that searching for unreality is useless — so seek the Reality, i.e. the Self.
That is the way to control the mind.

There is only one thing that is real. Everything else is only an appearance. Diversity is not its nature. We are reading the printed characters on the paper but ignoring the paper which is the background. Similarly, you are taken up by the manifestations of the mind and do not hold onto the background. Whose fault is that?

The essence of the mind is only awareness or Consciousness.
When the ego, however, dominates it, it functions as the reasoning, thinking or sensing faculty. The cosmic mind is not
limited by the ego, and so has nothing separate from itself and is therefore simply aware.

This is what the Bible means by 'I am that I AM.'

- Conscious Immortality