Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

That Whose Fulfilment is Impossible

 

Question: Desire for the world and desire for God, both desire

appear quite contrary and opposing, do these reside in one place ?

 

Swamiji: Yes, both these desires reside in one place. Where there is

desire for enjoyment of worldly pleasures, there itself is also

desire for salvation. When desire for worldly enjoyments are

concluded, desire for God (Supreme Consciousness) will be awakened.

Wiping out the desire for worldly desires will automatically on it's

own result in fulfillment of desire for God. But worldly desires

will never be satisfied. Inspite of millions of births, then too

these desires will remain unfullfilled, and more so, new desires

will continue to manifest - " Jimi pratilaabh, lobh adhikaayi. "

 

Question: How do both these desires reside in the same place?

Swamiji: One desire you have held on to, and the other desire is

there innately in us (Self). Worldly desires you have grabbed onto,

whereas, desire for God (Supreme Consciousness) is in you, in your

Self. The desire to remain alive for ever, to have no lack of

knowledge (ignorance) remaining in us, and to remain ever and

eternally happy at all times - these desires are of the Self,

whereas desire for enoyment of worldly pleasures are not desires of

the Self.

 

The inspiration behind all desires is your Self. If by the Self, if

you leave worldly desires, then they can never remain or last. That

whose fulfillment is impossible, should certainly be given up. The

reason worldly desires are not fulfilled is because the world

is " not " and deisre for God (Supreme Consciouness) is fulfilled

because that Supreme Consciousness " IS " . Worldly objects never

remain forever. They are destroyed. But God (Supreme Consciousness)

ever remains.