Keep your Seeking alive
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27 April, 2015
Without the context of seeking, even renunciation can lead you into laziness.
A lot of people talk as if they are renouncing, just to justify their laziness, dumbness, stupidity. I myself get many lectures like this from people, who are utterly lazy and bored, tired of life, but when they talk, they talk as if they are renouncing the whole world!
Listen: renunciation is not renouncing the action. For example, you grow grass, feed the cow, milk it, make the curd, churn it, get the butter, boil it, make ghee, and offer the ghee to the deity, the Divine, God, Guru or whoever - that is renunciation, sacrifice. If you don't even grow the grass, that is not sacrifice! That is boredom and tiredness. Many people don't even take the effort of growing the grass, and they say, "Oh, everything is Maya." Without understanding the context, even the greatest truth can be missed, misused. Missed and misused.
Seeking, honest seeking, authentic seeking, being integrated to your seeking, is one of the most important alignments you need to do in your life every day - because it is only by seeking that your Being is kept in the highest peak awareness. So keep the seeking alive. Let the seeking become your first response to life. Let the seeking be the source of inspiration for you to live. Let the seeking be the energy to live. Let the
seeking be the intensity to live.
Without the context of seeking, the most subtle truths are never cognized. Cognizing the most subtle truths in the right context happens only when you keep your seeking alive.
Don't ever think that without seeking any higher thing can be achieved. Everything you do, whether it is deity worship, attending satsang, reading the scriptures, doing voluntary service, pranayama, yoga, spiritual practice, whatever you are doing, should strengthen your seeking, should make you a stronger and stronger seeker. The depth of your seeking should be increased.
If your seeking is alive, you will go on reinventing yourself. You will raise yourself by yourself! You will be so alive, so active, so brilliant, so energetic, because seeking is the most powerful way you can exist; the most powerful way you can experience you.
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