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The Importance of the Seeking Spirit

What is seeking? Seeking means activating your
mind, your eyes, your ears. When a person activates
these faculties, he develops in himself the quality of
perceptiveness, so conditioning himself that whenever
he finds what he wants, he immediately takes possession
of it.
If a blind man is thirsty and a glass of water is
placed in front of him, he will not drink from it. He is
incapable of perceiving it. The same is true of unseen
realities. One who does not possess the seeking spirit,
is spiritually blind: he is unable to see spiritual things,
even if they exist all around him. Therefore, before
spiritual finding comes spiritual seeking. First of all you
have to make yourself a spiritual seeker, only then will
you be able to discover those spiritual things, which are
always in evidence around you.

The seeking spirit must be underpinned by sincerity.
What is sincerity? Sincerity is freedom from deceit,
falsity and hypocrisy. It is a pre-condition for the success
of the seeking spirit. If you have the desire to emerge
as a spiritual finder, you must develop this quality of
sincerity. Anyone who wants to make himself into
a spiritual person, must first of all turn himself into
a sincere person, for sincerity is the price to be paid
for spirituality. In this world nothing can be attained
without paying its price.
A human being is like the onion which has several
layers to it. Just as the core of the onion can be reached
only by removing these layers, so can man’s personality
be reached only by removing the multiple layers that
bit by bit enshroud him when he lives in society. If you

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