The best of all vow is to become selfless, to be free from desires.
‘I love Your flowers; I love Your thorns.
Grant me whatever You wish-
Happiness or sorrow; pleasure or pain.
I shall accept all circumstances given by my Master.’
This outlook will make you free from all burdens and tensions. It is not that your son or daughter gets married only if you desire for it and remains unmarried if you don’t. Marriage or other relationships do take place at the time destined for them. By desiring, we only hinder them. When we worry about something like a plot not being sold, we actually delay the thing happening.
You have a desire that your plot should be sold out. You give up this desire. It is only when you let go the desire that it fructifies. The condition of course is that you should not let go the desire for the sake of fructifying it. That will not be real abandonment. If you genuinely let go a desire, the desired event take place; for your heart becomes pure the moment you let go desire and a pure heart is endowed with the power to fructify its resolves.
The difference between saints and other people is that the later are anxious to get their wishes fulfilled and beg before saints to that end. Thousands come to them and are delivered of their troubles. Common men have a family of only 4-5 people; yet they always feel vexed. But the saints are related with thousands of families, who get inspiration and blessings from them; yet they are always blissful. Why? The reason is they have no personal desires or interest; they have no thirst for pleasures for themselves. They think their personality or body to be composed of five great elements of nature. I am telling you the secret of how to become a saint and how to fulfil your desires. The Lord says to Arjuna :
‘It is desire, it is anger born of the quality of Rajas, all sinful and all-devouring; know this as the foe here (in this world).’
(The Gita 3.37)
desire is a voracious eater. That is desire is never satiated. Howsoever many desires you may satisfy, more desires will spring up. They will squander your life but will present themselves. When there is no end to desires, better abandon them.
Desires arise like that of a good bungalow, good clothes, and other pleasure. Even if they are fulfilled and one enjoys the pleasure, the desires become stronger and deep-rooted. Such a person harms himself. His behaviour is self-injurious for he depends on sense-objects killing own Self-nature. Secondly, those deprived of those objects naturally feel humiliated by one who possesses them. Thus by enjoying pleasures one hurts other people mentally.
There are needs and there are desires. God is well aware of our needs. We need milk after birth; and we get it in appropriate manner and quality-it is neither too hot nor too cold, neither too sweet not tasteless. We need to breathe and the air for breathing is provided. We need water and it is easily available. We need land to walk on and it too is available. The sunrays are very essential for us and they are available to everybody-rich or poor. We need winters and summers at their respective times and they are available. We need winters and summers at their respective times and they are available. We need food and with a little effort, we can get enough to eat. But if we want to have variety of dishes or particular delicacies in meals, it is desire. We need to cover the body and we can wear clothes as per our capacity. But if we are impressed by others’ synthetic fashionable clothes and want the same for us even if we cannot afford it, it is desire.
Needs can be satisfied easily but there is no end to desires. Is there anybody on earth, who has fulfilled all his desires? Desires arise when we look at those who are superior to us in material possessions and not at our inferiors. If you look towards your superiors, there is no end to it. And if you peep into their lives closely, you will find that they are not able to take rest in the day nor are they able to get sound sleep in the night. Those who appear to be superior to you or happier from materialistic point of view are not happy in fact. If they consider themselves to be happy, they are mistaken. But the others who consider them to be happy and forfeit their own peace of mind are doubly mistaken.
The great men reveling in Self-bliss don’t pose to be big by virtue of external objects. They make use of their body, mind and possessions for making others happy. Therefore their wealth, splendour and radiance do not suppress others nor does it give rise to egotism and desire in others’ minds. It rather develops their divine love and Self-repose by erasing their ego.
‘I love Your flowers; I love Your thorns.
Grant me whatever You wish-
Happiness or sorrow; pleasure or pain.
I shall accept all circumstances given by my Master.’
This outlook will make you free from all burdens and tensions. It is not that your son or daughter gets married only if you desire for it and remains unmarried if you don’t. Marriage or other relationships do take place at the time destined for them. By desiring, we only hinder them. When we worry about something like a plot not being sold, we actually delay the thing happening.
You have a desire that your plot should be sold out. You give up this desire. It is only when you let go the desire that it fructifies. The condition of course is that you should not let go the desire for the sake of fructifying it. That will not be real abandonment. If you genuinely let go a desire, the desired event take place; for your heart becomes pure the moment you let go desire and a pure heart is endowed with the power to fructify its resolves.
The difference between saints and other people is that the later are anxious to get their wishes fulfilled and beg before saints to that end. Thousands come to them and are delivered of their troubles. Common men have a family of only 4-5 people; yet they always feel vexed. But the saints are related with thousands of families, who get inspiration and blessings from them; yet they are always blissful. Why? The reason is they have no personal desires or interest; they have no thirst for pleasures for themselves. They think their personality or body to be composed of five great elements of nature. I am telling you the secret of how to become a saint and how to fulfil your desires. The Lord says to Arjuna :
‘It is desire, it is anger born of the quality of Rajas, all sinful and all-devouring; know this as the foe here (in this world).’
(The Gita 3.37)
desire is a voracious eater. That is desire is never satiated. Howsoever many desires you may satisfy, more desires will spring up. They will squander your life but will present themselves. When there is no end to desires, better abandon them.
Desires arise like that of a good bungalow, good clothes, and other pleasure. Even if they are fulfilled and one enjoys the pleasure, the desires become stronger and deep-rooted. Such a person harms himself. His behaviour is self-injurious for he depends on sense-objects killing own Self-nature. Secondly, those deprived of those objects naturally feel humiliated by one who possesses them. Thus by enjoying pleasures one hurts other people mentally.
There are needs and there are desires. God is well aware of our needs. We need milk after birth; and we get it in appropriate manner and quality-it is neither too hot nor too cold, neither too sweet not tasteless. We need to breathe and the air for breathing is provided. We need water and it is easily available. We need land to walk on and it too is available. The sunrays are very essential for us and they are available to everybody-rich or poor. We need winters and summers at their respective times and they are available. We need winters and summers at their respective times and they are available. We need food and with a little effort, we can get enough to eat. But if we want to have variety of dishes or particular delicacies in meals, it is desire. We need to cover the body and we can wear clothes as per our capacity. But if we are impressed by others’ synthetic fashionable clothes and want the same for us even if we cannot afford it, it is desire.
Needs can be satisfied easily but there is no end to desires. Is there anybody on earth, who has fulfilled all his desires? Desires arise when we look at those who are superior to us in material possessions and not at our inferiors. If you look towards your superiors, there is no end to it. And if you peep into their lives closely, you will find that they are not able to take rest in the day nor are they able to get sound sleep in the night. Those who appear to be superior to you or happier from materialistic point of view are not happy in fact. If they consider themselves to be happy, they are mistaken. But the others who consider them to be happy and forfeit their own peace of mind are doubly mistaken.
The great men reveling in Self-bliss don’t pose to be big by virtue of external objects. They make use of their body, mind and possessions for making others happy. Therefore their wealth, splendour and radiance do not suppress others nor does it give rise to egotism and desire in others’ minds. It rather develops their divine love and Self-repose by erasing their ego.
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