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The annihilation of the ego (the primal thought) alone is Liberation.

 

As long as there are tendencies towards sense objects in the mind,

(since they will always create some subtle or gross world-

appearance) so long the enquiry "Who am I?" is necessary. As and

when thoughts rise of their own accord, one should annihilate all of

them through enquiry then and there in their very place of origin.

 

What is the means to annihilate them? If other thoughts rise

disturbing Self-attention, one should, without attempting to

complete them, enquire "To whom did they rise?". It will then be

known "to me"; immediately if we observe "Who is this I that

thinks?", the mind (our power of attention which was hitherto

engaged in thinking in second and third persons) will turn back to

its source (Self). Hence (since no one is there to attend to them),

the other thoughts which had risen will also subside. By repeatedly

practicing thus, the power of the mind to abide in its source

increases. When the mind thus abides in the Heart, the first

thought, "I" ("I am the body", the rising "I"), which is the root of

all other thoughts, itself having vanished, the ever-existing Self

(the being "I") alone will shine. The place (or state) where even

the slightest trace of the thought "I" ("I am this, that, the body,

Brahman and so on") does not exist, alone is Self.

 

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

teachings.