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Soul’S DIvIne journeY

“My dear seeker, you have wandered endlessly and exter-
nalized your search, pursuing the secret to happiness in
all the wrong places. please realize that the hidden secret
is this – you, and you alone, have been the object of your
search all along. the secret to lasting happiness is within
you. Apply yourself there.”
that very hour, the noble sage gave to the elderly
man the secret of his own inner kingdom, fulfilling the
answer to the wandering seeker’s lifetime quest for nothing
other than himself.

the wandering seeker’s dilemma closely parallels the
predicament that all humankind finds itself within, for no
one is really happy within the world, even though the pur-
suit of happiness is a God-given quality and is only natural.
Some would object to the basic premise of this statement,
but the Masters would then rhetorically ask: how could
anyone truly be happy when one’s very own soul is impris-
oned within the cage of the body consciousness, and the
principles of karma and reincarnation are being levied
against one? Most individuals attempt to discover the
secret of true happiness by externalizing their search, but
they are looking for truth in all the wrong places. Absolute
truth has never been found, nor will it ever be found, out-
side of the individual’s own consciousness.
In our search for this elusive happiness, we oftentimes
mistakenly rely upon the pleasure principle, but when our
pleasure turns to pain, we realize we have fallen for a tempo-
ral illusion. this futile chase can persist indefinitely, for the
mind within the human being is stolidly convinced that truth,
bliss, and happiness are certainly outside its own mental ca-
pacity and the parameters of its own intellectual atmosphere.