Please read and contemplate quotes #626-628 in The Seven Steps to Awakening with your inner teacher. Here is the last quote:
To be what you are, you must go beyond the mind, into your own being. It is immaterial what is the mind that you leave behind, provided you leave it behind for good. This again is not possible without Self-realization.
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