Questioner: Acharya ji, today I realized that without love in my heart, I cannot find joy in my life, however wonderful my external situations are. Just listening to, and singing a Kabir bhajan brings me so much joy, love, and tears, I really want to know this Love, and what it means to stay in Truth. Please hold my hands and help me reach these, reach there. Please do not leave me even if I stumble and fail. I now want to taste it.
Acharya Prashant: It’s actually easy, you don’t have to go too far, you don’t have to go any far. Start with that which is close to you. Start from the faintest flicker available to you, even if you are in deep darkness. Something must be available, and that something is your only hope and very sufficient support, start from there. There is nobody whose life is so barren, that there is not even a faint ray of Truth in it. To each of us irrespective of our conditions, some hope, some support, some light is provided, use that. It may not appear scintillating, brilliant, or overpowering. It may not announce itself as the ultimate thing for you, but still, it is that which would redeem you, and you have no other way but to be committed to that little thing.
Why do we ignore that little thing? Two reasons — first, it is not explosively radiant, it is just a faint flicker. So, it is not very distinguishable from the various kinds of darkness within and without. It does not shine very brightly; it is not easy to spot it, that’s the first reason and the second reason is, that we have concepts about absolute luminosity and we live in constant expectation of nothing short of that. We believe that when help would come, it would arrive in a huge chariot, carrying some effulgent God, and the God would descend and declare himself to me and then, I would know that help has arrived. So compared to this picture of help, compared to this concept of brightness, the little ray actually available to you appears very insignificant, very dim, fit to be contemptuously ignored and so you ignore it.
