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field of the inanimate. And what is there in the inanimate that calls for a search? This whole world is a group of atoms. Some atoms might be clubbed this way and others in some other way. Nothing otherwise, so what is there to search? If at all you want to go in for some research for yourself, for the Self, then just go in search of a Satpurush. Satpurush is one who has found the sat - the truth within himself. He has experienced the truth - atma - himself and is capable of making others experience it. Find such a Satpurush.
After finding such a Satpurush -
अर्पाई जा तेना चरणमां, सर्वथा शुद्धतर मने। Make your mind absolutely clean, cleanest and then dedicate yourself. Your feelings should be so clean that they should not be carry even a trace of the dirt of avarice-artifice. There should be no veil in between. Where there is a veil, there cannot be true love, true dedication. Anandaghanji Maharaj has also said -
कपट रहित थई आतम अरपणा रे Go to the feet of the Lord without deceit, offer yourself at the feet of the Guru. Open yourself up, to the Guru, just as you are. Your tendencies, your change of thoughts, your school of thought, open it up before the Guru just as they are. And then -
राजी रहे तेनी रजा सर्वस्व सत्य प्रमाणीने; The Gurudev's desire alone is my life. His happiness alone is my success. When total dedication appears, then there is no vanity left within the self. Not just that, all the activities of mind, body and speech are governed by the desire of the one to whom one is dedicated. For there is now the firm conviction that, 'he alone, in whose feet I am resigned, is the totality for me. His
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