How are the meditative souls awakened, how do they experience the inner life? In the first place the adept values His object of attaining the inner life more than anything else in life. As long as he does not really value it, so long he remains unable to attain it. That is the first condition: that man should value the inner life more than anything else in the world, more than wealth, power, position, rank, or anything else. It does not mean that in this world he should not pursue the things he needs; it means he should value most something which is really worth while.