effort. Only when you commence to work earnestly in the Kingdom of Truth
will you be allowed to partake of the Bread of Life, and when you have, by
patient and uncomplaining effort, earned the spiritual wages for which you
ask, they will not be withheld from you.

If you really seek Truth, and not merely your own gratification; if you
love it above all worldly pleasures and gains; more, even, than happiness
itself, you will be willing to make the effort necessary for its
achievement.

If you would be freed from sin and sorrow; if you would taste of that
spotless purity for which you sigh and pray; if you would realize wisdom
and knowledge, and would enter into the possession of profound and abiding
peace, come now and enter the path of meditation, and let the supreme
object of your meditation be Truth.

At the outset, meditation must be distinguished from _idle reverie_. There
is nothing dreamy and unpractical about it. It is _a process of searching
and uncompromising thought which allows nothing to remain but the simple
and naked truth_. Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build
yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember
only that you are seeking the Truth. And so you will remove, one by one,
the errors which you have built around yourself in the past, and will
patiently wait for the revelation of Truth which will come when your errors
have been sufficiently removed. In the silent humility of your heart you
will realize that

"There is an inmost centre in us all
Where Truth abides in fulness; and around,
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in;