Crumbs from His Table - Control of Mind, #1

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(Mind alone is the cause of man's bondage and freedom.

__ Amritabindu Upanishad)

 

 

D: I have not yet learnt to control my mind so I intend to seek ekantavasam

[ life in solitude ] in North India and want Sri Bhagavan's grace.

 

 

Bhagavan:

You have come all the way to Tiruvannamalai for ekantavasam, and that in the

immediate presence and vicinity of Ramana Bhagavan, yet you do not

appear to have obtained that mental quiet; you now want to go elsewhere

and from there you will desire to go to some other place. At this rate there

will be no end to your travels. You do not realize that it is your mind that

drives you in this manner. Control that first and you will be happy wherever

you are.

 

I do not know if you have read Vivekananda's lectures. It is my impression

that he has somewhere told the story of a man trying to bury his shadow

and finding that over every sod of earth he put in the grave he had dug for it

it only appeared again, so that it could never be buried. Such is the case of

a person who tries to bury his thoughts. One must therefore attempt to get

at the very bottom from which thought springs and root out thought,

mind and desire.

 

~~~ CRUMBS FROM HIS TABLE

By Ramanananda Swarnagiri

Fourth Edition, 1969

 

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