Follow Me IN! Follow Me IN! Pranic Body
by what we picked up from someone. It is a very subtle game sometimes. But with intelligence, we will be able to trace the root of every action of ours. If we live with this awareness, it is more than enough. Just the awareness will take us beyond desires and keep us in peace and bliss.
In Jainism, there is a belief that when you are born, the entire quantity of food and energy that you will need during your lifetime is sent along with you. This is a way of saying that whatever are your true requirements in this birth, Existence equips you with the energy to fulfill them before sending you to planet earth.
So understand that if at all you are feeling that your desires are not getting fulfilled, it is because of your own doing, not because of God or your parents or anyone around you.
One more important thing about desires, I want to tell you. Desires are energy for our body. It is the fuel without which we will not even get up from our bed. The reason why you even stir from your bed is because of the desire to do something. Without desire you will not even get up from the bed. To move out of bed, you need energy. That energy is desire. Desire itself is no problem. There is nothing wrong in having desires and fulfilling them.
The whole problem is we start having self-contradicting desires. For example, we want all the comforts, but we don't want to take up any responsibility. This is one major area of self-contradiction. Next, we want to take a vacation for which we need money. For money we need to work. These two desires are contradictory. What happens because of this? You lie on the