If he is searching only for pearls and stones, then how can the value of his life be more than what he is searching for?
But most of the people become small in the investigation of the small, and in the end find that they have wasted the wealth of life in search of such wealth as, in fact, is no wealth at all.
It is desirable that before we start on a journey we find out where we want to reach, why we want so and also whether we will be able to tolerate the difficulties and hard labour that will be involved in the journey to the object.
He who does not think before starting, often finds that either he does not reach anywhere at all or if he reaches somewhere then he does not find that place worth reaching at all.
I want that such a mistake does not happen in your life because it destroys the whole life itself.
Life is short. Power is limited. Time is little. Therefore, only those who move after careful thinking, and with care and caution, can reach somewhere.
There was a beggar. His name was Shivli. He was on a journey. On the way, he saw a young man running fast and asked him: "Friend, where are you running away?" That young man said without stopping: "To my home". Thereafter Shivli put him a rather strange question. He asked: "Which home?"
I also ask you the same question. You are running away. All are running away. I ask: "Where are you running away?"
Could this entire race not be planned?
Is it not that you are running because all others are running? Without knowing where you have to reach?
I wish in reply to this question you could say the same thing which that young man had told Shivli; and then my whole being will start dancing with happiness.
That young man had said: "There is only one home. The house of God. I am in search of the same".
Doubtless, the rest is all dream. The search for any other home is a dream. Home is only one; real home is only one, the house of God and he who searches for it has to go into himself because he is hidden in the self.
Is there any other house than the house of God?
And can God be found anywhere except in the self.
If I were in place of Shivli. I would have asked that running young man one more question. I do not know what answer he would have given. But let me tell you the question itself.
I would ask him: "Friend, if you want to find God why are you running away? Where are you running away? How will you find him by running away who exists right here. Is not the desire to find him in the future an illusion; Him, who exists in the present and now? And he who exists inside can only be lost by running away. To find him, is it not desirable that you should stop, stay and search within yourself?"
Do not search for religion; search for yourself. Religion will then automatically come to you.
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