Desire - Lesson 5

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Desires are inborn. They are our nature. If we fulfill desires, we feel fulfilled, relaxed and complete. With longings, the moment we fulfill them, we feel empty, incomplete. This is the difference between desire and longing.

Desire gives us fulfillment, completion. Longing gives us emptiness, incompletion

To open up all the samskaras (patterns), all the unfulfilled desires, guilt.

Desire means I should live like this in future; guilt means I should have lived like that in the past. I should live like this is desire; I should have lived like that in the past is guilt.

Both are same energy; when it travels towards the future, it is desire; when it travels towards the past, it is guilt.

Desire is not wrong. Having so much of desires, you have never time to fulfil even one desire is wrong. Desire to have a cup of coffee is not wrong. But by the time coffee is ready, you are already worried about having a buttermilk.

By the time buttermilk is ready. you have already started worrying about the nectar. But finally from the morning till night you never drank anything. That is what is wrong.

Your life is running only in this way. Project plan, project plan, project plan , project plan and dead line for what. for project to die. But never ever. Never ever you enjoy, live. Yeyati could not relax from his life because he never enjoyed. By that time he is enjoying something in his life, his mind is already there in something else. By the time he is enjoying something else, his mind is there something else. Continuously moving, Never living.

During student life, a person feels that he will be happy when he gets a job. Once he gets a job, he feels that he will be happy when he gets married. After marriage he feels that he will be happy only when he gets children. Like this, man runs after each desire thinking that he will be happy only when that desire gets fulfilled.

When he runs to the end of his life, he realizes that none of his desires really gives him true happiness. Such a man is an anubhavan. An anubuthivan on the other hand clearly understands from his first desire that no desire when fulfilled will give him true happiness; There lies the difference.

Filling your being is the right job of the Master than fulfilling your desires. Fulfilling your desires are too small than filling your being. A Real Master fills your being

The qualities of life are:

Life can heal your body at this moment.
Life has the capacity to make any of your desire into reality. Any desire - just it can be made into reality.

Note: Any desire not fulfilled remains in your inner system as karma and will again and again push you to fulfill itself.

You do not manifest what you desire, but you manifest what you believe. You manifest what you perceive, you manifest what you cognize. If you cognize struggle as you, if you believe you as a struggle, you will manifest only that. If you believe, if you cognize , if you perceive, you as the ups and downs you will manifest only that in your life. So the first basic truth, so if you perceive yourself as a struggle, you will manifest only that.

Completion, Enlightenment, stress-free, beautiful, blissful content life, but you perceive you are not qualified for that, or that is not going to happen for you, you are not capable of taking responsibility for that. Unfortunately you manifest what you perceive, not what you desire.

Now this gap, struggle is what is called incompletions, mental patterns.

For example: I really desire wealth. But deep down you believe wealthy people are arrogant people, bad people they do lot of wrong things, if you believe wealthy people are arrogant, bad wrong, they do many wrong things, they exploit others, if you have that belief how are you going to manifest wealth in your life?

Your reality is made out of the stuff your perception, cognition are made out of. Your desire is not the material out of which your reality is made. Your perception is the material out if which your reality is made.

You desire wealth but you believe its almost impossible for you, various reasons. The fight which goes on between your desire and belief is mental patterns.

When the completion starts happening, your perception, your beliefs, become your desires. Your desire and your belief becoming one, is what is called as Completion. Then simply you start manifesting, what you want to manifest.

Desire without object is enlightenment. When you have some strong desire with object, you work towards that object. But if the object is removed the same strong pull, desire and energy - the same energy, turns towards itself and you realize yourself. When Masters say that there is nothing called enlightenment, they are breaking our goal-oriented mind and they are bringing us to this present moment.

Sealing of desires cannot be done. Suppression will only lead to perversion and other difficulties. Transformation is the only possibility; suppression cannot be done. Whether it is related to sense-enjoyment or name and fame or anything, the more you suppress, the more you poison your system. All you can do is to transform the desires. If want this to happen, enter into meditation and let your energies be transformed.

Except transformation, there is no other way to escape from desires. Just divert the energy and let it become pure. When you transform you will have the pure desire without it being directed towards any object. Desire without object is energy. When your energy is attached to an object, it becomes desire and when the desire is detached from the object it becomes energy.

That is why in Vedic systems, we call desire as icchha shakthi (Will Power) or desire energy. As long as there is no object, it leads you to bliss. When there is an object, it leads you to bondage. You can only transform or purify it through meditation, never suppress it which only leads to more problems.

When man ponders over the pleasures of the senses, there arises an association with it; means you start associating yourself with it. From association arises the desire, from desire the desire turns into anger, from anger arises delusion unconsciousness; from the delusion unconsciousness makes the mind unsteady. The destruction of understanding happen in an unsteady mind and the destroyed understanding annihilates the person.

When you mature, your desires do mature. If you decide that your desires should not get matured, you stop your maturity. You stop your maturity. Maturity of the desires and fears is what is called Renunciation. Renunciation is not denunciation. In Hindu tradition, Vairāgya is not arāgya. Virāgā is not arāgā. Renunciation is not denunciation. Maturity getting added to your desires and fears.

With surrender, the first thing you will experience is, your desires and fears will get matured. End, they will completely disappear, that is different – that is the ultimate experience. But the moment you even start practicing surrender, your desires and fears will start getting matured

Celebrate your desires getting matured. Celebrate your fears getting matured. Celebrate your anxieties getting matured. Celebrate your decisions getting matured. Celebrate your vision getting matured, you will celebrate Surrender; because in real surrender, spiritual surrender, the worm is becoming butterfly

In Sanskrit we have the word called viraga which means going beyond attachment or vairaagya. Raga means attachment, araga means detachment, viraga means going beyond attachment or detachment; going beyond desires and desirelessness.

When some desire comes, consider it then suddenly quit. Suddenly unclutch and experience the truth in you.

This is a very strong truth, a very profound statement. He says directly,' whenever desire arises in you, consider it'. He means,' just see, don't judge'. He is simply asking you to be an unbiased witness, an observer and not to judge whether something is right or wrong. If you judge something as wrong you will not be able to drop the idea or desire.

Here Bhagavān Paramaśiva is saying, 'suddenly uncluth from it'; disconnect from the desire. See, when you filled with some desire and you suddenly disconnect, you will experience a new inner space, an empty space, that inner space which is ready to experience your own reality.

When you are honest and integrated with the desire, there is no conflict. When we have a true desire, we must channel it properly, put it into action and use it for the good of all.

The knowledge and action should also be in tune with the desire energy. Then it forms a circle of desire leading to better knowledge and action, which in turn leads to clearer desires!

We need to think about our desires, and find out if what we desire is in tune with what is good for us, what is the right thing and important thing for our lives? The desire that is pure and not directed towards any particular object or person is simply an overflowing energy that is called the "desire energy".

From the navel center comes the pure energy. In the heart region, this energy gets converted to the power of desire. This further gets converted into words in the throat region. When this energy gets converted into words, it is called the speech energy.

The speech energy moves further to the brain, there it stays as the power of knowledge and the option is for the energy to get converted into a command and get executed. This is the power of action. If the energy is not processed and changed properly, the knowledge and action become disconnected.

The difference between need and desire is complicated with greed. We may need clothing and shelter, but to have greed is to always want more and more of each item, or greed to live in a big mansion which is not necessary.

If the desire energy gets converted as too much knowledge and less action, then we will end up only thinking more and more, building castles in the air. On the other hand if the desire energy gets converted as too much action and less knowledge then we will end up working blindly. When you are honest and integrated with the desire, there is no conflict and the conversion happens properly.

❖ Causing the child to choose Right over Pleasant

Can you give examples of some desires?
What are true desires?
How can we tell the difference between true desires and wants?
How can we make desires become reality? What is knowledge?
What is responsibility?
Can you get some examples of responsibility?
What are some things you are responsible for your actions?
Do we desire things that are good for us?

If we do not accomplish the things we are to do, how will things be completed?
If our parents play with toys instead of going to the office, how will we get money?
Are all desires good?
How can we be sure we have true desires?
Where does the desire energy come from?
Where does the pure energy begin from?
The energy from our throat becomes what energy
What is the difference between greed and need?