"If the mind becomes introverted through enquiry into the source of the 'I'-thought, the mental tendencies become extinct. The light of the Self falls on the mental tendencies and produces the phenomena of reflection we call the mind. Thus, when the mental tendencies become extinct the mind also disappears, being absorbed into the light of the one reality, the heart."
"This is the sum and substance of all that an aspirant needs to know. What is imperatively required of him is an earnest and one-pointed enquiry into the source of the 'I'-thought."
Source: Absolute Consciousness
"When the attention goes deeper and deeper within along the reflected ray ?I?, its length decreases more and more, and when the ray 'I' dies, that which shines as 'I' is Jnana."
V. 9, Atma Vichara Patikam
Dear Devotees,
Since the mind is only the phenomena of reflection which appears when the Light of the Self falls on the mental tendencies or predispositions, when an aspirant, on account of love for the Self, dives deeper and deeper within, by an intense effort of the Self-attention, and is so close to his Source (Self) that not even the least rising of the ego is possible, that is, the length of the reflected ray 'I' (the ego) decreases progressively more and more till it disappears completely, such a one remains absorbed in the great, great dissolution of the "I am the body" idea, or the dehatma budhi.
Dear devotees, after this great dissolution of the 'I am the body' idea, what shines as 'I' is the Self or Jnana Sri Bhagwan speaks of, and since It is the Pure Being, it does not say 'I'.
This, in my view, is alone the real science in which Absolute Verity is reached and realized, by penetrating to the Core, seeing through the phenomena, realizing our True Nature, and remaining as Pure Being, that we always are.
Thanks very much.
Pranam,
Anil