The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.