Learn how to quiet your mind

1. Think of nothing. Learn how to quiet your mind. Learn how to make your mind quiescent like a motionless lake. A motionless lake can attract our image, reflect the sun, the stars, the moon, trees, grass. A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything.
    
2. Always remember; your body came to this plane to do certain work. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. You are totally free. You are the embodiment of love. You have absolutely nothing to do with your body.
    
3. Whatever you're no longer attached to gives way. Whatever you're no longer holding to, no longer holds on to you.
    
4. It is the ego that wants to know. When you begin to feel that you know less, that is a good sign, because you know less about the world and more about the self. The more confounded you become, the more the ego breaks up.
    
5. Ignore the thoughts completely, totally, absolutely. Again, do not fight your thoughts. Ignoring your thoughts is not fighting your thoughts. Do not try to change your thoughts. Above all do not try to stop your thoughts
    
6. Make yourself happy. Forget about your troubles. They don't exist. Only God exists as yourself. But you must find it out for yourself.
    
7. We also have the pointed advice given by him (Ramana Maharshi) to Ganapada Muni. ‘Remain all the time steadfast in the heart. God will determine the future for you to accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart.’ Life becomes meaningful if we joyously tread the inward path, remembering that ours is to do the vichara and it is for the inner source to do the rest. Then bliss is not the end product to be found on reaching the goal, but is felt all along the homeward, heartward journey.”
    
8. Your job is to keep the mind from wandering. The mind has to be held by you. Your mind is not your friend. It makes you human. It makes you believe you are a body, separate.
    
9. For you're saying, "Aren't we supposed to help the world?" You're supposed to find out who you are. Your first and main job is to awaken. And then you will see if you want to help the world. What world?