Acharya Shree, why is it important for truth seeker to awaken?
Yes, oh, this is wonderful question. Truth seeker needs to be awakened, because they are on the path.
When you use word 'truth seeker' it means they are already seeking, and they are not seeking the wrong path. They want to seek the right path.
And right path is not easy to seek, because right path is given to you by the enlightened one, or by the master, and they are not available on this earth
it is like, you can count them, few of them. And whatever you see, you see mostly religious teacher. And religious cannot
make you on the track, to go on the track, the right path. Right path is called 'Dhammo'.
In Prakrit, is called 'Dhammo'. Or, Sanskrit is 'Dharma'. So, Dharma means 'path,' Dharma is not a religion.
And people misunderstood this word, they translated Dharma as a religion, and it is actually a path, and path is right path.
So, truth seekers, as soon as you use the word 'truth seeker', truth seeker means they are already on the path, they're already seeking it.
But what they seek? When they seek the truth, they don't find the truth outside of them, or, to the temple, or to the synagogue, or to the churches.
They go, they waste their whole life. And they never find the truth, because truth is not hidden there. Truth is inner phenomenon.
You have to look at yourself. Maybe, look at your heart, look at who you really are.
And, it is hidden here, and when it is hidden here, then why you are seeking outside then?
So, the truth seeker, why they want to awaken themselves? Because, they know that they will get a lot of clarity, a lot of understanding.
And they will have these glimpses, that's what I talk about in the book, these glimpses which never happened to other people,
except truth seeker. They can have the real. The other people, they have glimpses, they call it glimpses, but they are like a hallucination.
Go to the Zen monasteries in Japan. What they do? They try to tell people, "Hey, we will give you stori." 'Stori' means glimpses of samadhi.
But what they will tell you - "clean the bathroom. Do this." The karma yoga. And karma yoga doesn't take you anywhere.
It means they cannot take care of their monastery, they use those students and they do a lot of things there. But stori is not easy, what they teach.
And no one had stori there. I talked with a thousand people, and they said, "No, we went there. It is a good system, but we don't realize anything."
So, the truth seekers, they want to awaken their soul because they want to have glimpses, they want to have understanding, they want to realize who they really are.
And if they see, little bit, themselves, what they really are. Soul is not like you can catch it. Or you can touch it.
Soul is like light, and this light has a lot of knowing, a lot of power. And this power can be awakened. And that's what they are seeking, that,
"Which is hidden, that power, I want to awaken that." That's what they seek.