Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
Ramana MaharshiIt is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
Ramana MaharshiBliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
Ramana MaharshiThe mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments, we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real, the many are mere names and forms.
Ramana Maharshi