Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-46

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Help on the Quest for Self-realization-Reminders-46

 

To keep the mind constantly turned inwards and to abide thus in the

Self is the only Self-enquiry.

 

He who seeks to know the Self should consider the phenomenal

(perceptible by, or perceptible only to, the senses) world, with

reference to himself, as merely a dream.

 

Self-enquiry serves to bring up hidden thoughts and impurities from

the depths of the mind, for what is hidden in you is brought out.

Unless it rises up how can it be destroyed.

 

There is no other way except to pull the mind up each time it wants

to go astray and fix it on the Self.

 

I do not say you must keep on rejecting thoughts. If you cling to

yourself, to the "I" thought, and your interest keeps you to that

single thought, other thoughts will get rejected and will

automatically vanish.

 

Since every thought can occur after the rise of the "I" thought, it

is only through the enquiry: Who am I? that the mind subsides

(becomes tranquil). Moreover, the integral "I" thought implicit in

such enquiry, having destroyed all other thoughts, itself finally

gets destroyed or consumed, just as a stick used for stirring the

burning funeral pyre gets consumed.

 

The mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts.

 

By steady and continuous investigation into the nature of the mind,

the mind is transformed into that to which "I" refers; and that is

in fact the Self. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own

nature, it transpires (come to be known / prove to be the case) that

there is no such thing as mind.

 

It can be said that the mind ceases to exist or that it becomes

transformed into the Self; the meaning is really the same. It does

not mean that a person becomes mindless, like a stone, but that the

Pure Consciousness of the Self is no longer confined within the

narrow limits of the individualized mind and no longer sees through

a glass darkly but with clarity and radiant vision.

 

Source: Various reliable publications of / on Sri Ramana Maharshi's

teachings.