annihilation of mind...

"Is it an easy thing to obtain Knowledge of Brahman?

It is not possible unless the mind is annihilated.

The
guru said to the disciple,

'Give me your mind and I
shall give you Knowledge'

.... A man attains
Brahmajnana [Knowledge of Brahman] as soon as his mind
is annihilated.

With the annihilation of the mind dies
the ego which says, 'I,' 'I.'



Sri Ramakrishna
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998 (1971), p. 222