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With any desire, the prana flow will change appropriately. If you are in a silent and peaceful mood, the prana flow will be different. It will be so mild that you will not even know that the prana flow is taking place.

DESIRE IS ENERGY

Desire is nothing but energy. How should we handle this desire energy?

Mahavira, a great spiritual master, says that when we are born on planet earth, we bring with us all that we need to survive and achieve those desires for which we took birth. Yet, why do we feel we do not have enough? For instance, we take ten thousand dollars and set out to buy a car.

We meet someone on the way who talks of the latest television that one should buy if one can afford to. What happens? We are carried away by the friend's words and enthusiasm for the TV, and we end up buying the television. Then we find that we do not have enough money to buy the car that we actually needed! This is how we experience the inadequacies in our lives.

Those desires that you bring with you to fulfill in this life are called prarabdha karma. But after you are born, society imposes thousands of desires on you. You pick up desires from each and everyone whom you meet in life and from commercials and try to fulfill them. All the time, you are fulfilling someone else's desires and not your own, like the example of buying the latest television. You are caught in a trap. You do not have energy, money or time to fulfill all these desires. Therefore, forgetting that all those desires were really the ones that you picked up from others, you blame life and God for not being able to fulfill