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Who is the Seeker of Truth?
Ever since
a baby is born and seeks its mother's breast intuitively, life is nothing
but seeking — but this is done instinctively, automatically, without the
need of thoughts. Hence the question arises – Who is the seeker? Am I in
control of my seeking? If seeking is a natural process belonging to
nature, could we then say that maybe “I think that I am the seeker, but
the truth is that I am not the seeker” -
Then, if I am not the Seeker, who is? The answer could be that in reality there is no seeker as such, but
instead an impulsive, in-built need to seek something that has been
programmed within me. Something within the ego (me) pushes my thought and
emotional processes to seek whatever is written in the programming of my
Psyche – However, I think that I want to seek something, when in reality
it is the impulse within that pushes me to act. An analogy could be
helpful here: if we take a computer for example, we know that for it to
function it needs to have inbuilt special computer programs. In the same
manner, we have as human being an innate, engrained program with which we
are born and which I have previously called our natural "blue
print" or the "Perfect Model". To make it sound more
mystical and nearer to the truth, I have always called this
programming with the name of - the Psyche. Each human being has of
course a Psyche, which has been programmed before incarnation. Therefore
the seeking in human beings depends on the programming, over which, we as
human beings have no control. Let us take some examples. There are some
people who consider themselves seekers of money. Some seek fame. Some seek
power. And some seek among other things to known themselves and to know
God. This kind of seeking, let's call it spiritual seeking, or seeking
Absolute Being or God, and seeking freedom from the ego — what we call
it is immaterial — is happening to everyone through the impulses coming
from their Psyche, which bridges and links the Unlimited aspect of
Consciousness which is Absolute and Infinite to its “shadow” or
limited and subjective aspect that is anchored and engrained in every
human being, because each person’s Psyche has been programmed before
birth for a certain kind of seeking to happen.
Therefore
spiritual seeking begins with an individual ego — seeker — seeking
enlightenment, or Self-realization, as an object, which will give him or
her more pleasure than he or she can ever imagine getting from the
material world. That is where it starts. The seeking by the ego for
enlightenment can end not with intellectual understanding but only
with the absolute understanding intuited in the heart that there
never was a seeker, a doer—there never was a seeker for any seeking.
There is seeking but no individual seeker. There is doing but no
individual doer thereof. That is the end of it! And the end of the seeking
can be brought about only by that Power which started the seeking. In
other words by the grace of God or Absolute Being
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