Desire-Knowledge-Action🔗

How does desire or intention get actualized as action?

The undirected desire or pure and overflowing energy is called iccha shakti or the desire energy.

From the navel, energy comes as pure energy. In the heart region, the energy gets converted to the power of desire. This further gets converted into words in the throat region. The part in the throat which converts energy into words is the vak or the speech energy.

To give an analogy, the energy comes as loose cotton from the navel region. The cotton becomes thread in the throat region. Another analogy is, the energy flows like molten iron till the throat. The throat is like a forge where the product, the words, is formed! ```

Then the words move up to the brain. In the brain, the energy can stay as the power of knowledge or gnana shakti. Or the energy can get converted to a command. The command moves all over the body and moves you into action. This is the power of action or kriya shakti. For example, the desire energy to know about the head can remain as knowledge of the head. Or the desire energy can express as the power of action like moving the head.

If the energy is not channeled properly, the knowledge and action are disconnected from the power of desire. The knowledge and action should be in tune with the desire. Then it forms

a virtuous circle of desire leading to better knowledge and action, which in turn leads to clearer desires.

For example, say you have a desire to make a million dollars. If it gets converted properly as knowledge, you will have a clear plan and you can do the right actions to become a millionaire. If the desire energy gets converted as too much knowledge and less action, then you will end up only thinking more and more, and building castles in the air.

If the desire energy gets converted as too much action and less knowledge, then you will end up working blindly. For example, you may work hard like deciding to drive a truck from Los Angeles to New York and earning money to become a millionaire. Can you become a millionaire this way? No! There is action but no knowledge.

So the proper conversion of desire to knowledge and action has to happen. The reason why this conversion doesn't happen properly is lack of awareness.

When you are honest and integrated with the desire, there will be deep awareness with no conflict, and the conversion will happen properly because you are in tune with your natural intelligence.