The Mind is Not Real

Last week, I posted a teaching from Indian guru Ramana Maharshi, who said, “You are perfect, so abandon the idea of imperfection. There is nothing to be destroyed. The ego is not a real thing. It is the mind which makes the effort, and the mind is not real. Just as it is not necessary to kill the rope, which one imagines to be a snake, so also there is no need to destroy the mind. Knowing the form of the mind makes the mind disappear.”