Experimenting with the Truth by Prabhuji

Author:Prabhuji, [Prabhuji,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N/A
Publisher: Prabhuji Mission
Published: 2018-01-10T18:30:00+00:00

You often refer to true

spiritual seekers. I would

like to know who can be

considered a spiritual seeker.

Material seekers are motivated by the ambition to satisfy their desires for money, honor, or fame. Dogmatic religious seekers strive to achieve God, paradise, or enlightenment. Someone I consider to be a true spiritual seeker questions everything, including the search and the essence of the searcher.

Material seekers’ lives are governed by the yearning to satiate desires for wealth, position, respect, power, and many other things. They spend their lives striving for pleasure, enjoyment, and happiness. This pursuit disconnects them from reality, because their lives revolve around a constant projection of dreams. Their ambitions push them in multiple directions and condemn them to a state of conflict. This inner struggle is also reflected in their relationship with the world and other people. For this reason, spiritual seekers are interested not in satisfying desires but understanding them. They do not attempt to fulfil or repress desires, because even the intention to eliminate them is a desire. Knowing that it is impossible to transcend what one does not understand, they observe and examine their desires.

Spiritual searching begins when we understand that desires bring frustration. We realize that no matter how successful we might become, in the end, our achievements will need to be abandoned. We see that as long as desire is present, we will keep projecting selfish longings upon life. We notice that our ambitions inhibit observation, obstruct access to reality, and prevent us from being in the now. Spiritual inquiry is seeking reality or Truth. Instead of running after the satisfaction of demands and selfish needs, spiritual seekers investigate themselves, their own yearnings, and even the motivations behind their search.

Material seekers dream of achieving whatever is out of reach, whatever they lack. Their search originates from a feeling of deficiency. Spiritual seekers, on the other hand, aspire to recognize what they have; they want to become aware of what already is and perceive it as it is. This is a subtle yet enormous difference. They understand that a superficial life is meaningless, reduced to being born, sleeping, protecting oneself, eating, procreating, and dying. They refuse to see it as a passage from cradle to grave without any kind of evolution. When they become aware of this inconstant reality, they discover that their life is nothing but illusion.

The search can begin only when we face life’s miseries. Three walks around the city were enough for Buddha to become aware of the earthly suffering that had been hidden from him behind the closed gates of the palace. It was during these walks that he realized that worldly enjoyment and pleasures were trivial. Having recognized the negative, he began the search for the positive; and it is then that Buddha left the palace in pursuit of real happiness, or absolute bliss.

Throughout history, little has made us more passionate than the search for Truth. From this passion, works like the Bible, the Koran, the Upanishads, the Zend Avesta, the Tao Te Ching, and the Dhamapada were born.

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