Acharya Prashant explains that whatever relationship you form with anything in the world, big or small, you are actually forming it for the sake of the Truth. This entire game that is going on is based on one Supreme Being and is driven by a longing for that one Supreme Being. This game comes from that same being and is for the purpose of going towards it. Whether you are sitting on the roof at night looking at the moon, or playing with a small flower in the garden, or forming a relationship with your parents, your wife, or your husband, or having a relationship with your daughter or son—whatever you are doing in the world, you are doing it from that being and for the sake of that being. Now, how can you forget it? You never forget it. If you had forgotten it, you would not do anything. Every action of yours is for its sake, which means you are constantly remembering it. But still, you remain forgetful. You say, 'I go to the office for the sake of my job.' You don't go for the sake of the job. If you look closely at why you want money, why you want to stay alive, you will understand the real purpose of the job. You say, 'I was just tired, so I came to the mountains.' No, you did not come to the mountains just to relieve fatigue. There is a hidden and very deep purpose for your coming to the mountains, you are just not aware of it. Your relationship with gods and goddesses is sometimes of fear, sometimes of hope, sometimes of respect. In this whole game, what are you asking from the gods? Look closely, you are asking for peace. What are you doing by drinking water? You are increasing the life of your body. What are you doing by eating food? You are making yourself capable of performing more actions. What relationship do you have with all the planets, the sun, the moon, and the stars? When you look at them, what feeling arises in your mind? Looking at the sun, you say it is very big. You are in hope of the biggest of the big. In science, you experiment with small molecules and even smaller subatomic particles. There too, you are searching for the same thing that you search for when looking at the vastest of the vast. Man is running in both directions, have you seen? He is entering the nucleus and also going into the cosmos. He is restless. If he had found peace, all of physics would have ended with Newton. These verses are telling you that you are in search of the Supreme Being. You search for it in your relationships with your lover, and you search for it in spectroscopy. The search is for the One. And we are all searching because we are all constantly doing something. We are not doing it for nothing. When you open the door of a room, your eyes are searching for something, they are looking at something. If you were not searching for anything, your eyes would be closed. Why don't your eyes want to close? Because they are searching. Baba Farid says, 'O crow, do not eat my eyes, for in them is the hope of meeting my beloved.' The eyes are open. Even after dying, the eyes are open like this. There is still hope of meeting the beloved. Whatever comes into your sensory field, it is a new hope and a new challenge. It contains Brahman, but how and where, one does not know. So you look at it with wide-open eyes. And then, having failed, so as not to declare yourself a failure, you say, 'I know it, it is a stone.' If you really knew it was a stone, you would not need to look at it again and again. Even when a stone comes before you, you look at it again, because you know that you have not been able to see it to this day.
