If, rather than wasting his days, the jiva takes up the practice of vichara with firm resolve, his life will come to possess great excellence. The idea "I am this wretched body" will cease and the sea of surpassing supreme bliss will surge abundantly within him.
Other than superior Atma-Vichara [Self-Enquiry], there exist no other spiritual practices whatsoever that are capable of quelling the mind. If the mind is subjugated by other methods, it will appear to have subsided, but it will revive and rise again.
Bhagavan in 'Who am I?' :
"To make the mind subside, there is no adequate means other than inquiry. If controlled by other means, the mind will remain as if subsided, but will rise again".
-RAMANA MAHARSHI.
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