You are already That which you seek.

Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.

...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.