Desire is the root cause of our Birth. Birth means plenty of desire & insurmountable amounts of struggle to fulfill these desires but in-return we get flickering happiness. Birth also means aging, disease and Death. No Desire means No Birth means No School, Work, House or Spouse means No Suffering....LOL.😜 😂 😆.
To become desireless is impossible, because desire is a natural function of the living entity. As long as we have our mind & senses we will have plenty of desires. Desires to become wealthy, famous, powerful, knowledgeable, to enjoy this world...etc, we can’t be desireless. On other hand material desires brings anxiety, agitation, aggressiveness, anger ness, quarrel, greed, possessiveness...etc which can hamper our progress on the Spiritual path & also diminishes our happiness.
CAN WE BE HAPPILY DESIRELESS to BE ETERNALLY HAPPY?..Sounds crazy..😂.
Bg 2.71 -- A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego – he alone can attain real peace.
We have three choices to manage or control our material desires as explained below:
1. Suppression: Suppressing or punishing our mind & senses to become desireless. Sometimes suppressing or starving ourselves makes us more hungry towards material desires..LOL. 😂......Not a good choice.
2. Saturation: Maximum use of our senses to enjoy the material things maximally till they are faded, saturated or exhausted. Unfortunately our senses are designed such a way that the more we feed them the more prominent they become. It is like putting a stick of butter over fire. Once we fade up with one subject or object our senses will look for another subject or object; they will never be saturated or satisfied.....Not a best choice.
Bg 3.39 -- Thus the wise living entity’s pure consciousness becomes covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire.
Suppressing the life by having minimum desires is like eating a food without salt AND Saturating the life by having too many desires is like eating a food with too much salt...LOL. Even if we succeed in controlling our desires either by suppression or saturation methods, what will we do in our free time? Just sit on the couch and become a Couch Potato..LOL 😂 😝.
3. Purification: If we have poor vision due to cataract in the eye, we don't pluck out the eye but we remove the cataract and will able to see again. Similarly in Spirituality also rather then trying to suppress or saturate our senses, occupy & purify them by having Spiritual Desires-Spiritual Yoga--Spiritual Development.
Besides maintaining & entertaining ourselves we should utilize material means our wealth, skill, technology, power, position...etc for our inner or spiritual development also. Utility is the principal rather then Void philosophy. Example: Besides work, worldly & mundane purpose, I use my IPHONE & IPAD for Spiritual development also meaning hearing & reading the Scriptures/Spiritual Knowledge, listening the Slokas & Mantras and writing & sharing the spiritual Blog. Spirituality will improve our relationships, discipline, enthusiasm, health, behavior, work ethics, satisfaction & overall happiness in our lives.
Out of three Purification means "HAVE SPIRITUAL DESIRES to BECOME DESIRELESS." looks like a better choice. Our curiosity to learn Spiritual knowledge, Balanced life ( balanced in eating, sleeping, recreation & work ) & Association with like minded people will help us to progress on Spiritual Journey.
With respect to everyone’s values & beliefs, whichever GUIDELINES ( Bible, Quran, Torah, Tripitaka-Buddhism, Agama-Jainism, Guru Granth Sahib-Sikhism, Gita or any other...) METHODS or WAYS work for us is good.
Bg 6.16 -- There is no possibility of one’s becoming a yogī, O Arjuna, if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough.
Bg 6.17 -- He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system.
Bg 18.49 -- One who is self-controlled and unattached and who disregards all material enjoyments can obtain, by practice of renunciation, the highest perfect stage of freedom from reaction.
Bg 18.54 -- One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything. He is equally disposed toward every living entity. Vedabase.com
Have a Spiritual Desire Day.
It is easy to say, but difficult to follow. I am in the same boat with everyone else, or I may even be behind, but thinking in the right direction will help us to go in the right direction.
Write the Blog to Learn, Implement & Share the Knowledge AND Read the Blog to Associate with the Knowledge...LOL 😂 😝 😆.
Thank You.
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MY SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION , SOURCE & THE GURUS:
I am inspired to hear & read the Vedic Scriptures by regularly listening to Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale, also known as Dadaji ( speaks on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and the association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra.
I also hear and read the discourses & literature on Vedic thoughts from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( HH Bhakti Rasamitra Swami, HH Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Shubha Vilas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, HH Bhakticharu Swami, HH Urmila Devi Dasi, HH Sivarama Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Romapada Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu ( Gujarati & Hindi) Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......).
FYI: A good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com . Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam (SB) is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures. Hearing & reading these scriptures, Eating Sanctified Pure Food and Chanting Vedic Mantras daily purify our senses, nourishing our heart ( Soul ), are transcendental to our consciousness, uplifting to our emotions and thus perfect our Free Will. Otherwise this powerful material world will degrade us.
It is always a good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Thanks to the Facebook/Social media for providing me the platform. Of course I use Smartphone/Google Pexels search to collect some data.
Besides my parents, wife, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE. Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by Grace of the Guru & God ( Krishna , Absolute Truth ).
NOTE:
Many times a word Hearing is used instead of Listening when it comes to the Scriptures. Because Scriptures are so potent that simply by Hearing them even if you don’t try to interpret or analyze or understand them still there will be passive positive effects on our mind & senses.
We can follow either the Quran, Bible, Judaism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Gita or any other Philosophy which makes sense to us, purifies us , elevates our consciousness and qualifies us to understand God and instill the love of God & his creation. ( whichever way we can understand God -- either Personal with many names or Impersonal as an universal consciousness & energy ).
Don’t try to understand God by Name, Religion or Depiction ( means image, picture...etc ) but try to understand him by the Definition through Scriptures. The Transcendental subject of God & his creation cannot be understood by mental speculation. Some times people ask why God is Supreme? It is just like asking why is the circle circular? Just by definition, the circle is circular. Similarly by definition, God is unborn, complete, unlimited, infinite, eternal, the Absolute Truth the source of everything, cause of all causes.
I see God, besides the above mentioned qualities, as an eternal living person ( not a abstract or some kind of light ) known by the name KRISHNA meaning one who attracts everyone has also MANY other NAMES, forms, abodes, incarnations, activities, qualities, associates, is full of wisdom, bliss, and the cause of all causes.
Bg 9.17 -- I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable oṁ. I am also the Ṛg, the Sāma and the Yajur Vedas.
Bg:13-12:-- Accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth ( God ) – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance. ( Vedabase.com ).
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