Letting Go of Spiritual Striving

The journey of seeking often begins with a deep yearning — the intuitive sense that something is missing, that there is more to life than what the mind can grasp or the world can offer. it brings us to the path. It makes us read, sit, reflect, and inquire. But at some point, this very seeking begins to reveal its own limits.

We seek peace, clarity, love. We try to reach them through effort, through becoming, through frameworks of progress. Yet, as Sri Ashish reminds us, truth is not the result of effort. It is not something to be found later. It is something that is always already here.

Right Understanding dissolves the illusion that truth lies ahead of us. It reveals that the seeker — the one who is striving — is itself an appearance in awareness. When we see this clearly, seeking begins to drop away, not through suppression, but through understanding. You are not the one who seeks. You are that in which the seeking appears and disappears.

Right Practice in this light is not a means to an end. It becomes a gentle remembering. Not a doing, but a quiet returning. It is the act of not interfering — of letting awareness rest in itself, without pushing, without pulling. As practice deepens, it becomes lighter, subtler, and more intimate.

And from this quiet, Right Experience unfolds — not as a prize, but as the natural arising of what has always been present. Peace, stillness, love — these do not come because the seeker has succeeded. They come because the seeker has dissolved.

The end of seeking is not an absence. It is a presence so simple, the mind usually overlooks it. It is not empty. It is full — with clarity, with ease, with being. To realize that there is nothing to reach, nothing to gain, and nothing to become is not defeat. It is freedom.

“To the one who no longer seeks, all things reveal themselves.” — Sri Ashish

What am I still striving for? Can I allow myself to stop — completely — even for a moment?