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Ramana Maharshi answers the best way to kill the mind

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When (on 2-11-45) Mr. Roy asked Bhagavan the best way of killing the ego (bodily I ), Bhagavan said, " To ask the mind to kill the mind is like making the thief the policeman. 

He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from and then it will cease to exist. " In reference to this answer, Mr. Thambi Thorai of Jaffna (who has been living in Palakothu for over a year) asked me, whether asking the mind to turn inward and seek its source is not also employing the mind.

So, I put this doubt before Bhagavan and Bhagavan said,  " Of course we are employing the mind. It is well known and admitted that only with the help of the mind the mind has to be killed. 

But instead of setting about saying there is a mind, and I want to kill it, you begin to seek the source of the mind, and you find the mind does not exist at all.The mind, turned outwards, results in thoughts and objects.Turned inwards, it becomes itself the Self.

Such a mind is sometimes called arupa manas or suddha manas

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