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If a paltry bauble in a shop window can arouse this burning desire in you, how infinite must be the longing when it is a matter of the spirit! This spiritual longing which craves to be satisfied is what we mean by perfect vision. Once this appetite is aroused in you, you will feel that your very existence has no meaning if you cannot satisfy this inner urge, this hunger of the soul.
Once let this spiritual appetite well up in you and you will be prepared to lose the world for it. Those who have relinquished worldly happiness in the pursuit of spiritual satisfaction have done so because they have been convinced that the world is naught in comparison to this thirst which demands satisfaction. He who chooses the spiritual path, who has had a glimpse of the true vision is already on his way to the moulding of a perfect character. To him renunciation of material assets is the most natural thing, an act of little consequence. For when your heart is set on acquiring this precious asset, the true vision, then renunciation is, in fact, not renunciation at all. You do not feel the pinch of renunciation; on the contrary, you feel that you have acquired what is most worth acquiring. Everything else fades into insignificance.
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