A small story:

Once, a blind man went to a doctor to see if he had any hope of getting back his eyesight. The doctor checked him and said, ‘Yes, I can do a surgery and you can get back your eyesight. Then, you can drop your stick and start walking.’ The man replied, ‘Doctor, I understand I will get back my eyesight, but how can I walk without the stick?’ The blind man could not understand that he can walk without a stick! He does not even know what it means to be able to see. The doctor has to do the surgery to give him back his eyesight, then automatically he will drop the stick.

When I tell people to declare completion and drop their mind, they look at me as if I am a mad man. They ask me, ‘How can we drop the mind? It is easy for you, you have renounced everything, you have no wife, no responsibilities, and on top of it you are enlightened. So, you can talk. How can we, living in this ocean of bondage, the saṁsāra sāgara, be in no-mind and yet survive?’

It is only when you drop the mind, drop your self-doubts, it is only when you stop connecting your thoughts to form a shaft, that you really start ‘seeing’. Your ego stops interfering with the truth of what you see. It stops filtering and adding tones to what your senses experience. Your baggage of embedded memories, your saṁskāras, dissolve, and the new ‘you’ is born. All your actions then arise out of intuition, from the super conscious state, the state of truth, where no mind can exist.

source: Bhagavadgita Decoded