Seeking = suffering.
So, how to stop seeking?
Until the truth of your own Self is known, seeking will continue no matter how much you try not to seek.
(Please contemplate this first before reading further)
How to know the truth of your self?
With happiness, faith, love and devotion in your heart, gently and lovingly (but definitely) turn away from all objects, which are not-self (being illusory, upon realisation they will no longer appear), towards the I AM (that which you ARE), the Subject, the Self (upon realisation the formless I AM/subject/Self, which is the nature of love-light-being-bliss, is all there is)
If instead we embrace objects as ‘part of oneness’ and say ‘all is included in oneness’, then the illusion is embraced, the truth of Self is not realised, and ego-seeking-suffering continues, as per the 3rd ‘paragraph’ above.
This is why Bhagavan Sri Ramana writes in Upadesa Saram verse 16:
‘It is true wisdom
For the mind to turn away
From outer objects and behold
Its own effulgent form.’
And why in ‘Who am I?’ Bhagavan Ramana writes:
‘Just as the knowledge of the rope, which is the base, will not be obtained unless the knowledge of the snake, the superimposition, goes, so the realization of Self (swarupa-darsanam), which is the base, will not be obtained unless the perception of the world (jagat-drishti) which is a superimposition, ceases.’
Crystal clear
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