Desire - Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

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Question: Why is there desire for enjoyment of pleasures ?

 

Answer: It is due to accepting our relationship with the body.

Rather, it is due to considering this body as " I " , " Mine " and " for

Me " that one, desires the enjoyment of pleasures.

 

Question: How is one to know whether they have or do not have lustful

desires (kamana)and attachments (mamta) to objects and persons ?

 

Answer: Whenever there is lack of peace within or confusion and

commotion within, then one must understand that within themselves

there is some " desire " . The separation that we feel with our self and

with others is due to attachments (mamta). Whoever we are attached

to, only they have an effect, influence on us and they leave

impressions on us.

 

Question: What is the difference between " desire " and " hope " for

happiness ?

 

Answer: One " Desires " favorable situations and happiness and not the

opposite. But the expectation and the possibility of attaining

happiness, pleasure, ease, prosperity, comforts etc leads to " hope "

for happiness.

 

Question: Let our sorrows come to an end - should one have or not

have this desire ?

 

Answer: One should not have any desires. If you desire to wipe out

sorrow, then you will become an enjoyer of happiness. If you desire

to become free of bondage, then you will become an enjoyer of

salvation and of freedom. Do not even desire to break off the

relationship with innate matters (jadataa), or else a very subtle

form of ego will remain within. The point here is that there is

absolutely nothing to be seeked out or to be received or to held on

to.

 

The more that a spiritual aspirant is exclusively dependent on God,

that much spiritual progress he will make. A sadhak must have no

desires of his own, leave all to God, then he becomes extraordinary

and attains realization in totality. Therefore there must not be even

the desire for one's own salvation. This is the best. Just like

Narsiji had the vision of Shankara, at which time he asked for

nothing from Him. He only said, that whatever you feel is appropriate

for me, that you do. Man can only desire to the extent that he is

able to envision. But beyond is the infinite essence. Beyond, the

glories are extraordinary. If a spiritual aspirant does not hold on

to his points, if he does not become complacent, then his Self will

make immense spiritual progress.