The thought-less state is itself Realisation
Q. : Should one keep a goal before one's eyes?
M. : What goal is there? The thing you conceive of as being the goal exists even prior to the ego's own existence. If we conceive ourselves as ego, or body or mind, then we are those things. But if we do not conceive ourselves as such then we are our real nature. It is the thinking which gives rise to such troubles. The very thought that there is such a thing as ego is wrong because ego is 'I'-thought and we are ourselves the real 'I'. The thought-less state is itself Realisation.
from "The Ultimate As the Truth, Sri Bhagavan's Teaching" recorded by Paul Brunton and found in The Mountain Path Magazine, Vol. 20 No. II April 1983.
M. : What goal is there? The thing you conceive of as being the goal exists even prior to the ego's own existence. If we conceive ourselves as ego, or body or mind, then we are those things. But if we do not conceive ourselves as such then we are our real nature. It is the thinking which gives rise to such troubles. The very thought that there is such a thing as ego is wrong because ego is 'I'-thought and we are ourselves the real 'I'. The thought-less state is itself Realisation.
from "The Ultimate As the Truth, Sri Bhagavan's Teaching" recorded by Paul Brunton and found in The Mountain Path Magazine, Vol. 20 No. II April 1983.