When Bhagavan Sri ramana Maharshi was asked how Self-enquirey which was conducted in only one of the three states of mind – the waking state – could destroy all three states of mind itself, he replied: Enquiry into the source of aham-vriti [ the I – thought, the limited feeling if I-ness] is, no doubt, initiated by the sadhaka in the waking state of the mind. It cannot be said that in him the mind has been destroyed. But the process of Self-enquiry will itself reveal that the alternation or transmutation of the three states of the mind, as well as the three states themselves, belong to the world of phenomenon which cannot affect his intense introversion of the mind. What is finally realized as a result of such enquiry into the source of aham-vriti, is verily the heart of the undifferentiated light of Consiousness into which the reflected light of the mind is completely absorbed.
Maharshi’s Gospel, Book 2,
Chapter 6, pp66-67.202 13th edition
A distinctive feature of Sri Bhagavan’s direct method of Self-enquiry is that all desires, all vasanas, all feelings, all thoughts, all hopes, all sensations, the mind/ego itself must go. This is best expressed in Sri Bhagavan’s own words:
“ Seek the Self by meditation in this manner: trace every thought to its origin which is only the mind. Never allow thought to run on. If you do, it would be unending. Take it back to its starting place again and again nd the mind would die of inaction. Go back constantly to the question ‘Who am I?’ Tear everything away until only the source of all is left. And then live always in the present, only in it. There is no past or future except in the mind".
July-September 2009 issue, p.pages 25-26
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