From the Garland of Guru's Sayings -WHO TRANSLATION Contd.

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FROM THE GURU-RAMANA- VACHANA-MALA

 

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This quotation is from the book, Guru--Ramana- -Vachana- -Mala by " Who, "

published by Sri Ramanasramam

 

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> Verse 167: True

> subjugation of the mind is being the pure Consciousness

> (which one really

> is), by the dissolution of the delusion " I am the

> mind, " (which comes) when the mind's activities are

> stilled (or extinguished). (20)

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> (20) Mind-Control, as commonly attempted, consists

> in mere inhibition (or suppression) of customary mental

> moods; this is unnatural, as pointed out in the line of the

> Gita, " all beings follow their ingrained

> natures; repression can do nothing. " This repression

> on the mental plane is exactly on a par with the modern

> unscientific methods of preventing acute disease, like

> smallpox, by vaccination and similar methods that consist in

> sowing the seeds of disease. The natural method of

> subjugating the mind is given above.

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