FIRST STIRRINGS TO LAST

When a person becomes interested in spiritual things, it is a sign that his Atman is beginning to awaken.

The Atman is like a chick in an egg.  As the chick grows, it becomes aware of the shell surrounding it.  Its instinct is to break out of the shell.  How it is going to do this, it does not yet know, except that it must.

As the Atman matures, there comes a time when instinctively it must awaken.  How, in real terms, it is going to do this, it does not know.  But then all of a sudden it does know.