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Mind

Mind is duality.

You are not body.
You are not mind.
Don't control body mind.
There is space before thought comes. Be that.
Don't identify with body mind thought as non self.
Be awareness.keep silent.
Silence is your nature.
Emptiness is your nature.
Be witness.

Meditation

Meditation means, no meditator and no object of meditation. Then you can do whatever you like. When the meditator is there it is ego. This is not something to be decided intellectually; it has to be directly experienced.

~ Papaji

Mind

Papaji Says:  "Mind is nothing but thought. You can’t separate thought itself from the mind."
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Doership

Ramana says: "So long as the sense of doership is retained there is the desire. That is also personality. If this goes the Self is found to shine forth pure. The sense of doership is the bondage and not the actions themselves. `Be still and know that I am God.' Here stillness is total surrender without a vestige of individuality. Stillness will prevail and there will be no agitation of mind. Agitation of mind is the cause of desire, the sense of doership and personality."
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Being still

Is the state of ‘being still’ a state involving effort or effortlessness?

It is not an effortless state of indolence. All mundane activities which are ordinarily called effort are performed with the aid of a portion of the mind and with frequent breaks. But the act of communion with the Self (atma vyavahara) or remaining still inwardly is intense activity which is performed
with the entire mind and without break.

Maya (delusion or ignorance) which cannot be destroyed by any other act is completely destroyed by this intense activity which is called ‘silence’ (mauna).

What is the nature of maya?

Maya is that which makes us regard as nonexistent the Self, the Reality, which is always and everywhere present, all-
pervasive and Self-luminous, and as existent the individual soul(jiva), the world (jagat), and God (para) which have been conclusively proved to be nonexistent at all times and places.

As the Self shines fully of its own accord why is it not generally recognised like the other objects of the world by all persons?

Wherever particular objects are known it is the Self which has known itself in the form of those objects. For what is
known as knowledge or awareness is only the potency of the Self (atma shakti). The Self is the only sentient object. There is nothing apart from the Self. If there are such objects they
are all insentient and therefore cannot either know themselves or mutually know one another. It is because the Self does not know its true nature in this manner that it seems to be immersed and struggling in the ocean of birth (and death) in the form of the individual soul.

Although the Lord is all-pervasive it appears, from passages like ‘adoring him through His grace’, that He can be known only through His grace. How then can the individual soul by its own efforts attain Self-realizationin the absence of the Lord’s grace?

As the Lord denotes the Self and as grace means the Lord’s presence or revelation, there is no time when the Lord remains unknown. If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun. Similarly, can the unawareness of the Self — which is always of the nature of awareness — by the ignorant, be other than their own fault? How can it be the fault of the Self? It is because grace is of the very nature of the Lord that He is well known as ‘the
blessed grace’. Therefore the Lord, whose nature itself is grace, does not have to bestow His grace. Nor is there any particular time for bestowing His grace.

What part of the body is the abode of the Self?

The Heart on the right side of the chest is generally indicated. This is because we usually point to the right side of
the chest when we refer to ourselves. Some say that the sahasrara (the thousand-petalled lotus) is the abode of the Self. But if that were true the head should not fall forward when we go to sleep or faint.

(Collected works of Ramana Maharshi)