Some reflections on the nature of thoughts and the self which are often confused with each other

It is the nature of the mind to wander. You are not the mind. The mind springs up and sinks down. It is impermanent, transitory, whereas you are eternal. There is nothing but the Self. To inhere in the Self is the thing. Never mind the mind. If its source is sought, it will vanish leaving the Self unaffected.
RAMANA MAHARISHI

So, what RAMANA MAHARISHI wants to say ? SHOULD we not seek to control the mind ?
But, as there is no mind to control if you realise the Self, just be in that Self.

The mind vanishing, the Self shines forth. The thoughts are ashes covering the hot embers that is our real Self.

In the enlightened man,  the mind may be active or inactive, Man may be reading, writing , doing some gardening, but all the while, the wise is centered on his self "brahman" which is beyond "names" and "forms" and which is whole yet multiple because it can manifest transcending physical limits in each and every electron while being whole every time it does so.

The Self alone remains and nothing else is important.

 That's why , our mental pattern that consists of worrying is useless.

 For the mind, the body and the world are not separate from the Self. They rise from and sink into the Self. 

Imagine a wave raising from a ocean and merging in it. It may be visually separate but when you go deeper, it is not , 

Can they be different from the Self? Only be aware of the Self. Why worry about these shadows? How do they affect the Self?

The mind by its very nature is the dynamic flow of thoughts. Thoughts can only arise from the material body.. not from any other source.