"In fact, the very division between you and life disappears, and this state of non-division is the state of existence.

"People come to me from all over the world; they travel thousands of miles. When they come to me and I ask, 'Why have you come?' somebody says, 'I am a seeker of the divine.' Somebody says, 'I am a seeker of truth.'

"They are not aware what they are asking. They are asking the impossible. The divine is not a thing. The divine is not an object. You cannot seek it. Divinity is this whole. How can you seek the whole? You can dissolve in it, you can merge in it, but you cannot seek it. The seeking simply shows that you go on believing yourself separate from the whole – you, the seeker, and the whole, the sought.

"Sometimes you seek a woman, sometimes you seek a man. Sometimes, frustrated from the world, you start seeking the other world – but you are not yet frustrated with seeking itself.

"A seeker is in trouble. A seeker is confused. He has not understood the basic problem itself. It is not that you have to seek the divine and then everything will be solved. Just the opposite – if everything is solved, suddenly there is divinity.

"It happened once:

"A bookseller from south India wrote to a house in New Delhi asking that a dozen copies of the book Seekers after God be shipped to him at once.

"Within two days he received this reply by telegraph: 'No seekers after God in Delhi or Bombay. Try Pune.'

"Of course they are all here. The seeking is a disease. Don't make it an ego trip – because when somebody comes and says that he is a seeker after God, I can see the light of the ego that shows in his eyes; the condemnation of the world – that he is not a worldly man, he is a religious man. The way he says it shows his pride – that he is not an ordinary man, not part of the ordinary run of humanity. He is special, extraordinary. He is not seeking money, he is seeking meditation."