The Seeker’s Thirst

This Devi Shakti is present in every living being in the world in the form of thirst, of longing. To that power, salutations, salutations, salutations.

Earlier you learned several things about hunger: the hunger of the body, the hunger of the mind and the hunger of consciousness.

In the same way, thirst has many levels. It happens at the level of the body, at the depths of the mind and at the level of consciousness.

So this thirst happens in many states, and it keeps happening. This thirst is itself a state of being.

The sutra says that Ma Adi Shakti abides in every living being in the state of thirst. Just as we do not produce hunger ourselves, we cannot produce thirst ourselves.

There is a thirst to see the truth, a thirst for what the eye can see. There is a thirst to experience for oneself, and there is a thirst that searches.

A seeker has a thirst for practice, and such a thirst cannot be produced at will. The Adi Shakti shapes Her play into waves, produces a thirst in some way or other, and so creates in a person the thirst to search for themselves.

In today’s world there are many kinds of thirst, and that too is a play of the Devi, a great primordial force.

Thirst should be genuine. But that thirst has become polluted, and so has hunger. They are contaminated, not genuine.

When thirst arises in us, a doubt comes up: is this my own thirst, or has someone else placed it in me?

Look at the shops all around us and what they are selling. Religion too has become a marketplace where many things are sold.

The ideologies of organisations, the ideas of politics and much more: all of it is trade. When we look at this trade broadly, we see that it has filled us with a masked thirst and a masked hunger.

In spirituality too, people wear masks, as if on veiled paths, and search in many ways.

We never ask whether we want any of this or not. We do not even ask whether we should be searching for it at all.

We see advertisements outside. We go in and have the experience inside: eating, being served, wearing fine clothes. Then we imagine that our thirst is quenched and that we have obtained it all. This comes from the world of advertising.

The world of religion has its own advertisements. Politics sends out a stream of its own. All advertisements are only promises: do this and you will have great happiness and peace.

In the same way there is a false thirst in spirituality. One person searches for Shiva, another for the Buddha. Some search for philosophies, some run after kundalini, and others keep looking for the many methods of the power of consciousness.

Likewise there is a thirst for miracles and siddhis. Does such a thirst really quench our thirst? Will we really get any of this or not? People keep running around, searching in so many ways. All of this is only the thirst of people in costume, the thirst of wearing a mask.

So we should try to quench only a genuine thirst.

Genuine thirst happens inside the body. It begs from every pore. It calls out honestly: I am thirsty for water, quench my thirst.

Example: A person in the desert sees a mirage in the distance that looks like water. They rush toward it, but there is no water there. They find no water, the thirst is not quenched, there is simply no water. Yet the person running toward it is completely genuine.

In this sutra the Adi Shakti, in the form of trishna, gives contentment.

But what is the use if thirst is merely satisfied in the body? There is only satisfaction. The Devi’s power abides in the form of thirst, and its result takes the form of satisfaction. When we experience satisfaction we need no certificate (satisfaction).

The meaning of the experience is simply: we have received it all, we are satisfied.

After drinking water we do not ask, by some parameter, how thirsty we are now. We cannot take our own pulse and declare whether our thirst is gone.

In the spiritual world people go searching with certificates in hand, asking their gurus: Am I full of thirst? How is my kundalini? Is it awake or not? What is my state of consciousness? Am I enlightened? From such misunderstanding they get a satisfaction, and they do not even know it.

Pseudo quest: a false understanding. Pseudo satisfaction: a false contentment.

So what is real satisfaction?

Hold your thirst, the thirst of the Devi Shakti in the form of trishna. Those who can are very fortunate. In them a fine, genuine thirst awakens.

Because thirst in the form of trishna is itself the Adi Shakti. Such a thirst ripens and shows the path.

Or, through a stream of intensity (an extreme, deep force), it finds its way and flows on as a river of water. Such people themselves turn into water, and transformed in this way they complete the spiritual journey from thirst to fulfilment. This is the siddhi of the Devi’s power; this is Her realisation.