Give Up the Search

"Keep quiet. Give up the search." -- Papaji

"The search the ego undertakes is therefore bound to be defeated. And since it also teaches that it is your identification, its guidance leads you to a journey which must end in perceived self-defeat." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 12, Section IV, 2:1-2

"There is no material truth. The physical senses can take no cognizance of God and spiritual Truth. Human belief has sought out many inventions, but not one of them can solve the problem of being..." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 273, Lines 2-6

Today's blog is short and to the point, in honor of Papaji's wisdom. He advised us all to keep quiet, and to give up the search.

All of us are seeking something. Some of us are seeking better health. Some of us are seeking better living conditions, better relationships, better something. Some of us may be searching for God, because we think It is something separate from us, that will make some emotional or physical pain go away. Some of us may be searching spiritually because of a vague but persistent dissatisfaction with life and the world. Regardless of who the seeker thinks she is, and regardless of the nature of the search and its object, it is all ego. It is hard to see that the nature of the search is always to seek, never to find.

When Jesus told us to "seek, and ye shall find," he was referring to this. The act of seeking externals always brings us to this awareness... that in the end, there is nothing to seek. So Jesus could say, unequivocally, that we will always and ultimately find the only thing there is to find... the Awareness of Self, forever safe and whole in God, right where we are.

Giving up the search means we are willing to stop seeking outside our self for meaning and fulfillment and God. It is the end of suffering.

"Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there?" -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 29, Section VII, 1:6-8