Can humans live without any desires?
If one cannot live without any desire, then liberation is the only thing worth desiring!
One must desire to be free, and must pray for finding the right path. It is very difficult to find the right path and it is even more difficult to encounter the giver of liberation. Countless circumstances come together and dissipate but only the circumstance of an encounter with a Gnani , the Enlightened One, will give you the permanent solution.
One must desire to be free, and must pray for finding the right path. It is very difficult to find the right path and it is even more difficult to encounter the giver of liberation. Countless circumstances come together and dissipate but only the circumstance of an encounter with a Gnani , the Enlightened One, will give you the permanent solution.
Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan , an Enlightened being, explains:
“In this current phase of the Kaliyug time cycle, people have desires for very insignificant things; they do not have the desire to enjoy everything. They waste away their whole life looking for something very trivial.
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Desire is a burning fire
It will not extinguish until the desire is fulfilled. The Lord has said that desire is an obstructing karma. The only desire worth having is a desire for liberation and for a Gnani Purush; such desires will not cause any obstructions. All other desires will continue to scorch you. They are fire-incarnate. People look for water to put it out, but instead, end up putting petrol (passion, kashay) over it. Even before a single desire is fulfilled, another one springs up. They keep coming, one after another, in succession. The natural law says that whatever desires you have will certainly be fulfilled, but nothing will be accomplished by constantly thinking about them. On the contrary it causes more entanglements.
The desires that come incessantly shall continue to plague you
One does not have a desire for anything and everything. Desire is the juice of worldly life. Whichever juice one likes the most, one feels a constant thirst for it.
The desires divulge what you have brought from your past life
What you desire and what you do not, are both contents of your karmic stock from your past life. When the link of your merit karma comes into effect, your desire is fulfilled. When this sequence is broken, undesired things would come before you.
What do people desire? They desire that which he or she has brought with them from their past life in the vessel of their intellect. They will continue to receive the happiness they have brought in the vessel of their intellect at the expense of their merit karma.
Before any event takes place, first sprouts the desire for it
For example, a person who wants to pass an exam will first have the desire to do so. When the obstacles get destroyed, things fall into place according to one’s desires. You may have a deep desire to spend your money for satsang but what can you do? Obstacles created in your past life will prevent you from doing so even when the opportunity presents itself. Once the obstacles are destroyed, things will naturally work out according to your desires.
The pure Self has no desires but the interim Self (one seeking liberation) does; it desires to acquire the Absolute State of pure Soul. When it achieves that absolute state, there will be no more desires left because the state of Vitaragta, a state void of any attachment, will have been attained. There is no desire in the One who is Absolute Vitarag!!!
How can one achieve this state of mind?
Gnani lives in such a state of ‘samadhi’, an active and alert awareness of the pure Self and the state of being the pure Self (the Soul).
Gnani’s speech delivers experience (hence, it helps us achieve the state as His!)
He has no worldly desires, no pride nor internal worldly stagnation within. He is not allured by anything- veneration or self-worship, objects of senses, riches or disciples. The eternal light of knowledge manifests within only when all one’s needs and desires are completely dissolved.
Being liberated, He is the liberator, the saviour, and the beacon light, living to lift and liberate others!!!
If one comes to Gnani in perfect humility and a spirit of ‘I know nothing’, one is sure to be lifted and liberated. Even once, if one surrenders his all, without any reservations, in the lotus feet of the Gnani, he will undoubtedly attain liberation – what an awe-inspiring mystery of modern age this is!
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