From Yoga Vasishta Sara

from Chapter 4: Dissolution of the Mind

1. Consciousness which is undivided imagines to itself desirable objects and runs after them. It is then known as the Mind.

5. The idea of Self in what is not the Self is due to incorrect understanding. The idea of reality in what is unreal, O Rama, know that to be the mind.

7. It is the nature of the mind to accept certain things and to reject others; this is bondage, nothing else.

13. When one knows the real truth about acceptance and rejection and does not think of anything but abides in himself, abandoning everything, mind does not come into existence.

19. The only god to be conquered is the mind. Its conquest leads to the attainment of everything. Without its conquest all other efforts are fruitless.

21. Association with the wise, abandonment of latent impressions, self-enquiry, control of breathing — these are the means of conquering the mind.

24. When the mind dissolves, whatever is dual or single is dissolved. What remains after that is Supreme Brahman, peaceful, eternal and free from misery.

The translation quoted is published by the Sri Ramanasramam