Listen, O Rama, to the supreme remedy for the great disease of the mind—a medicine that is self-dependent, easily applied, and established within oneself. This excellent cure is to be used with discernment, for it is the mind alone that causes suffering. By one's own effort and the power of direct self-awareness, the ghostly turmoil of the mind can be subdued through diligence, simply by abandoning the objects it desires. When a person stands free from affliction, having let go of what the mind craves, he has truly conquered the mind—just as one who tames an elephant earns the name of tamer. The childlike mind must be carefully guarded with the effort of self-awareness; it should be joined to the real, away from the unreal, and thus instructed with wisdom. O sage, with the sword of your own mind, cut off the mind scorched by worry and overly attached to scriptures, just as iron is severed by iron. Just as a child's mind can be easily directed here and there, so too can the mind be turned inward towards the noble—what, then, is so exceedingly difficult in this task? When engaged in righteous action that brings forth future results, one should direct the mind with conscious effort and awareness. If someone finds it difficult to renounce what is within their own power and for their own highest benefit, shame on such a person—they are like a worm among men. By contemplating what is unpleasant as pleasant through one's own understanding, the mind, like a child before a wrestler, is easily subdued. Through personal effort and diligence, the mind is conquered just as a horse is tamed; and without the mind as an adversary, the state of Brahman is reached. Those who cannot accomplish what is within their own power and easily done—mastery over their own mind—shame on them; they are jackals among men. Without the mantra of calming the mind, achieved solely by one's own effort and the renunciation of desires, there is no auspicious attainment. By mere conquest of the mind, accomplished through one's own awareness, there arises an unobstructed, beginningless, endless, and flawless state. In the glory of calming the mind—which is the limb of desired realization—the teachings of the guru, scriptures, mantras, and other methods become as straw. When the disease of the mind is cut off by the sword of non-conceptualization, then all becomes the all-pervading, peaceful Brahman. In this state, attainable by self-awareness and the destruction of false notions, nothing can disturb the one whose nature is tranquil and clear as a spotless cloud. Certainly, disregarding fate—which is only imagined by the deluded mind—lead your mind to no-mind through effort and awareness. Pursuing that unique supreme path for a long time, having made the mind consumed by consciousness, become even beyond mind itself. Freed from the notion of becoming, established in supreme understanding, hold yourself unwavering, with the mind absorbed in the highest consciousness. Relying on supreme effort, having led the mind to no-mind, attain that supreme path where you are neither this nor anything else. O Rama, the mind, which is like a weak enemy taking the form of mistaken perception, can indeed be quickly conquered by effort alone. Calmness is the root of prosperity; from calmness arises action. By conquering the mind, one for whom the conquest of the three worlds is as nothing achieves true victory. In that state, where even the slightest disturbance from weapons, fire, calamities, or falling does not occur—being merely the cessation of one's own nature—there can be no interference, and by whom? Those base men who are powerless even in matters concerning their own experience—how will they conduct themselves in the various situations of worldly dealings? The notions, "I am a man," "I am seen," "I am born," "I am alive," are false perceptions—movements of the restless mind, arising from unreality, and they pass away. No one here truly dies, and no one here is truly born; it is only the mind that, upon leaving the body, knows its own death and imagines itself to have gone to another world. When the mind departs from here to another world, it manifests itself differently there; it does not perish until liberation—so why should there be fear of death? The mind, taking the form of a body, moves about in this world and the next; until liberation, it persists—there is no other form for it. The suffering that arises in people regarding a son, brother, servant, or others does not occur in their own mind, because their own consciousness is not interrupted—this is my view. Having considered in every way—across, above, and below—again and again, I see that there is truly no means except the pacification of the mind. Apart from wholesome conduct, when pure knowledge arises in the heart, by the mere dissolution of the mind, true rest is attained. Consciousness meditates in the space of the heart with the wheel of pure awareness; destroy the mind without fear, and sorrows will not trouble you. If you have realized delight in what is undelightful, then those very limbs of the mind are cut off—this is my conviction. "This is 'I', this is 'mine',"—the mind is only this much; by merely not thinking thus, it is dissolved, like a donor giving away. Just as a broken cloud vanishes in the clear autumn sky, so too, in the supreme, undifferentiated reality, the mind becomes free of impressions. Where weapons, fire, and wind operate, there may be fear; but in what is self-dependent, soft, and clear, what fear can there be in the absence of thought-constructions? "This is good, this is not"—such notions are present from childhood, unbroken. Like a noble parent with a child, the mind should be joined to the good. Those who slay the five-headed lion of the senses—the lion that expands the forest of transmigration—here, they are the conquerors who attain the state of liberation. Terrifying calamities, which bring confusion, arise from the formation of thoughts, just as mirages appear in the desert. Let the winds of the end of the age blow, let the oceans merge into one, let twelve suns burn fiercely—there is no harm for one whose mind is free from thoughts.