Bhagavan on GOAL and PRACTICE

In answer to a question as to what is the best way to the goal, Bhagavan said: There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self. You exist always. Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than that it exists. Seeing God or the Self is only being the Self, that is yourself. Seeing is Being. You, being the Self, want to know how to attain the Self. It is like a man being at Ramanaashramam and asking how many ways there are of going to Ramanashramam and which is the best way for him. All that is required of you is to give up the thought that you are this body and give up all thoughts of external things or the non-Self. As often as the mind goes out towards objects, stop it and fix it in the Self or “ I “. That is all the effort required on your part.
Day by Day with Bhagavan by A.Devraja Mudaliar, 5th edition, 2002, page 332.

Ceaseless practice is essential until one attains without the least effort that natural and primal state of mind which is free from thought, in other words, until the ‘I’, ‘my’ and ‘mine’ are completely eradicated and destroyed.

Spiritual Instruction Chapter II 18

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, Since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one’s true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to remove the veil of ignorance.

Day by Day with Bhagavan by A.Devraja Mudaliar, 5th edition, 2002; page 26

Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called Detachment [VAIRAGYA]. Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice [SADHANA]. Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

Day by Day with Bhagavan by A.Devraja Mudaliar, 5th edition, 2002; page 294