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Question: Please tell us a
method to destroy the mind.
Ramana: Find out who has the mind. If the mind is still there
after you succeed, you may then look for a method to destroy it.
Question: I have a mind.
Ramana: Who are you? Are you this body? Why do you not raise
questions like this while you are asleep? Do you agree that the mind and the
life-force which animates the body are not yourself?
Question: No.
Ramana: You are the Self. If there is anything separate from you,
you can think about doing good or bad things to it. But if you yourself are
the only thing that exists, how can there be any likes and dislikes?
Desirelessness is absolute bliss.
Question: We are asking you again about destroying the mind
because of our ignorance. We pray to Sri Bhagavan to forgive us and give us a
reply. It is said that one must do spiritual practice to get rid of the mind.
How should this be done?
Ramana: Enquiring with the mind, "Whose is the mind that
ought to be destroyed?" , is the spiritual practice to get rid of the
mind.
Question: Who am I? I do not know.
Ramana: Without even knowing who we are we want to attain
something else. That which we want to attain is that which we already are.
The experience of any state or heavenly world that comes to us will
eventually go away again. That which comes and goes is not the Self. That
which is always within the experience of everyone; that alone is our real
Self. That is liberation, enlightenment.
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