The average person mistakenly believes he is an individual entity that is separate from the totality of manifestation. He believes he has free will and personal volition; and he believes he is the body-mind organism that he owns, uses, enjoys and controls. Furthermore, he believes that his own efforts and doings will somehow suffice to bring him what he wants - including lasting happiness. However, sooner or later, his own life experiences will show him clearly that this belief is false. He will find that nothing he can do or acquire can bring him the peace he so desires.
Realizing this, his mind turns inwards. Now he will try to find lasting peace and happiness within. His spiritual search has begun. He has become a seeker. Now he may want to know more about the riddle of life, its purpose, and its end, the mystery and "reality" of the Creator (and who created the Creator, if there is one) and then perhaps the final and ultimate Reality beyond the Creator. He may begin to wonder "Who or what am I?", "What remains after death?", and he may keep asking other such existential and metaphysical questions and longing for answers to them. His search will not end until he has realized, through his own direct experience, who he really is. Only in this realization will he find lasting, final and complete peace, contentment and fulfillment - enlightenment.
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