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D.: How to seek the mind?
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
M.: Breath-control may do as an aid but can never lead to the goal itself.
While doing it mechanically, take care to be alert in mind and remember
the ‘I-thought’ and seek its source. Then you will find that where breath
sinks, there the ‘I-thought’ arises. They sink and rise together. The
‘I-thought’ also will sink along with breath. Simultaneously another
luminous and infinite “I-I” will manifest and it will be continuous and
unbroken. That is the goal. It goes by different names - God, Self,
Kundalini-Sakti, consciousness etc., etc.
When the attempt is made it will of itself take you to the goal.
Talk 346.
Free will and Destiny last as long as the body lasts. But wisdom
transcends both, for the Self is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
Talk 347.
The mind is a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because
there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will
automatically vanish. The ego and the mind are the same. The ego is
the root-thought from which all other thoughts arise.
Talk 348.
D.: There are times when persons and things take on a vague, almost
transparent form, as in a dream. One ceases to observe them as from
outside, but is passively conscious of their existence, while not
actively conscious of any kind of selfhood. There is a deep quietness
in the mind. Is it, at such times, ready to dive into the Self? Or is
this condition unhealthy, the result of self-hypnotism? Should it be
encouraged as a means of getting temporary peace?
M.: There is consciousness along with quietness in the mind; this is
exactly the state to be aimed at. The fact that the question has been
framed on this point, without realising that it is the Self, shows that
the state is not steady but casual.
The word ‘diving’ is appropriate to the state of outgoing tendencies
when the mind is to be diverted and turned within so as to dive below
the surface of externalities. But when deep quietness prevails without
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