WILL THE THIEF CATCH HIMSELF?

Q. What is the best way to get rid of thoughts?

A. Is it the mind that tries to kill itself? How can the thief catch himself? It can’t be. So the best way is to try to realize your real nature, what you really are. When we see our Self then there are no thoughts to be got rid of. [Talk 146]

Q. How may the mind be controlled?

A. There are two methods. One is to see what the mind is; then it subsides. The second is to hold something else and control of the mind comes therewith. [Talk 43] Yoga serves to concentrate the mind. The predominant idea keeps off all others. The object is according to the individual. [Talk 52]

- Conscious Immortality p. 36