Control Your Desires You cannot have God unless you empty your heart of all desires. When desires fill your heart, how can you seek Immortality? As long as we have slightest desire for things other than God, we cannot have Him. Sri Ramakrishna Dev used to say that as long as even a little fibre was sticking out of the end of a thread, that thread would not be passed through the needle. Unless absolute concentration of your entire being is directed towards the purpose of your life – the attainment of God – there cannot be success in spiritual Realisation. Just as darkness and light cannot co-exist, in the presence of continual sensual pleasures, spiritual Bliss cannot exist. Therefore, show extreme contempt for worldly objects. Give up cravings. Give up deluded attachment. You have entangled yourself in this quagmire of samsara by increasing your own desires, your own wants. By making life luxurious and complex, you have multiplied your wants and desires. Every day you are forging additional links to this chain of bondage by creating newer and newer wants. Persons are always dissatisfied due to these uncontrolled desires. There is no end to their desires. Is there no escape from these troubles and difficulties? There is one supreme way. It is the development of intense dispassion. It is a life of simplicity, self-control and purity, a life of cosmic love, selfless service, and of shedding all selfish nature,. Develop the habit of thinking rightly, feeling rightly, and acting rightly. Practise devotion and meditation. Then alone it is possible for you to have happiness and perfect peace – not somewhere in some unknown distant realm in some distant future, but right here in the midst of all these external distractions, restlessness and boisterousness of life. Plentitude is your true nature. A deep perennial satisfaction characteises your true being. Nothing is lacked, for it is all-full and perfect. swami chidananda
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 07:02:41 +0000