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Chapter Nine
Discover Your Spiritual Treasure
In the Sermon on the Mount, Lord Jesus says:
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
(KJV Matthew 6:19-21)
A statement in the Upanishads provides a de nition of the treasure that everyone is seeking:
The Divine treasure is an effulgent treasure and that effulgent treasure lies within your heart.
Lord Jesus re ects the Upanishadic wisdom by saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is within thee.” In order to discover the Divine Treasure, one must look
