Devotee: How can the desires be rendered weaker?
Ramana Maharishi: By knowledge. You know that you are not the mind. The desires are in the mind. Such knowledge helps one to control them.
Devotee: But they are not controlled in our practical lives.
Ramana Maharishi: Every time you attempt satisfaction of a desire the knowledge comes that it is better to desist. Repeated reminders of this kind will in due course weaken the desires. What is your true nature? How can you ever forget it? Waking, dream and sleep are mere phases of the mind. They are not of the Self. You are the witness of these states. Your true nature is found in sleep.
Ramana Maharishi: By knowledge. You know that you are not the mind. The desires are in the mind. Such knowledge helps one to control them.
Devotee: But they are not controlled in our practical lives.
Ramana Maharishi: Every time you attempt satisfaction of a desire the knowledge comes that it is better to desist. Repeated reminders of this kind will in due course weaken the desires. What is your true nature? How can you ever forget it? Waking, dream and sleep are mere phases of the mind. They are not of the Self. You are the witness of these states. Your true nature is found in sleep.
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