Can we find Mind and Ego through Mind

Devotee.: It is so difficult to spot the mind. The same difficulty is shared by all.
Maharshi.: You can never find the mind through mind. Pass beyond it in order to find it non-existent.

Devotee.: Then one must directly go to seek the ego. Is it so?
Maharshi.: That’s it.Mind, ego, intellect are all different names for one single inner organ (antahkarana). The mind is only the aggregate of thoughts. Thoughts cannot exist but for the ego. So all thoughts are pervaded by ego (aham). Seek wherefrom the ‘I’ rises and the other thoughts will disappear.

Devotee.: What remains over cannot be ‘I’, but Pure Consciousness.
Maharshi.: Quite so. You start seeking happiness. On analysis you find that misery is caused by thoughts. They are called the mind. While trying to control the mind you seek the ‘I’ and get fixed in Being-Knowledge-Bliss.

Another devotee: What then is the mind?
Maharshi.: Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Devotee.: It is avarana (veiling) then. How does this happen?
Maharshi.: To whom is the avarana? It is the same as avidya (ignorance), ego or the mind.

Devotee.: Avarana means obscuration. Who is obscured? How does it arise?
Maharshi.: The limitation is itself obscuration. No questions will arise if limitations are transcended.