' IS has always been there '...

From the standpoint of Truth there never was any fruit to be obtained by making spiritual efforts, there is nothing to be acquired and whatever IS has always been there.

Self-enquiry is essentially an investigation into the true nature of man because, whatever he may think of the world outside and whatever he may conceive of as God the creator,

it is conjecture and conceptualization based on the only thing of which he can be certain, the only thing he actually knows, that he exist, that he is present, that he lives by the feeling of BEING.



-A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org