mind

M.: It is in the mind that birth and death, pleasure and pain, 

in short the world and ego exist. If the mind is destroyed all these are destroyed too. 

Note that it should be annihilated, not just made latent. For the mind is dormant in sleep. It does not know anything. Still, on waking up, you are as you were before. There is no end of grief. But if the mind be destroyed the grief will have no background and will disappear along with the mind.

D.: How to destroy the mind? 

M.: Seek the mind. On being sought, it will disappear.

 

D.: I do not understand.

M.: The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will vanish automatically. The ego and the mind are the same. The ego is the root-thought from which all other thoughts arise.

D.: How to seek the mind?

M.: Dive within. You are now aware that the mind rises up from within. So sink within and seek.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi No 195

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Who gave us this crazy idea

that we should know how to live?

Does a tree know how to grow?

Does a cloud know how to float?

Does the wind know where it is blowing?

Does a road know it is going somewhere?

Don’t know how to live,

just recognise that you are life

and life just Is. 

~ Mooji

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The final understanding is the acceptance of what Is as the functioning of totality or god. However, that acceptance is not in your hands. In the final understanding, there is no surrenderer, no accepter, no seeker and no finder. You know you have understood the teaching when questions answer themselves. You know you have understood the teaching when questions don't matter anymore and they dissolve. The stopping of all questioning is the most powerful understanding. Understanding means there is no need for understanding.

🌷 Ramesh S. Balsekar

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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Q: Can 't some use be made of this energy (of the Self)? What can one do with it? 

AS: Shakti is the Self and the Self is shakti. 

When you know that you are not the body or the mind, how can you do anything? 

In that state there will be no ‘I’ to instigate any activity. In that state everything will happen automatically. 

Water in a lake sustains many life forms: fish and plants inside 

the water; trees, plants and animals along the shoreline. If you are filled with the energy of the Self, that energy flows out of you and nourishes every one in your vicinity. You don't have to direct this power outwards. If you have done enough tapas this energy will flow of its own accord. 

Shakti is the shanti of the Self. If you do tapas and if you don't 

dissipate your energy through sensory indulgence you will feel the power of the Self accumulating inside you. You can also feel it radiating outwards to the people around you. 

You don't lose your power when you radiate it naturally like this because the power of the Self is infinite. You only lose it if you move your attention away from the Self and get involved in pointless mental and sensory excesses.

LWB p. 347

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Q: Bhagavan said yesterday that while one is engaged in search of God 'within', `outer' work would go on automatically. In the life of Sri Chaitanya it is said that during his lectures to students he was really seeking Krishna within and he forgot all about his body and went on talking of Krishna only. This raises a doubt as to whether work can safely be left to itself. Should one keep part of one's attention on the physical work?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

The Self is all.

Are you apart from the Self ?

Or can the work go on without the Self ?

The Self is universal so all actions will go on

whether you strain yourself to be engaged in them or not.

The work will go on of itself.

Thus Krishna told Arjuna that he need not trouble to kill the Kauravas because they were already slain by God.

It was not for him to resolve to work and worry himself about it,

but to allow his own nature to carry out the will of the higher power.

Q: But the work may suffer if I do not attend to it.

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Attending to the Self means attending to the work.

Because you identify yourself with the body,

you think that work is done by you.

But the body and its activities, including that work,

are not apart from the Self.

What does it matter whether you attend to the work or not ?

When you walk from one place to another

you do not attend to the steps you take

and yet you find yourself after a time at your goal.

You see how the business of walking goes on without your attending to it. So also with other kinds of work.

Q: If one holds the Self in remembrance, will one's actions always be right?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

They ought to be.

However, such a person is not concerned with the right or wrong of actions. His actions are God's and therefore right.

~ From Be as you are book