Anil Kumar Questions and
Answers
Question 12
I still
have desires. What to do? (03.11.2002)
There is nothing that can be done.
We have to understand the root cause of the desire. The desire has
not arisen out of my body. The desire has not been produced or
manufactured by this hand. The leg does not take me to the desire.
It is the mind that is the root cause of desire. Desires are born
in the mind. Once you understand that the mind is the substratum,
that the mind is the basis, that the mind is the cause for the
desire, you can try to be desireless.
How? My mind is going this way
towards desire. I tell my mind, “Don’t go this way. Go towards the
Mandir.”
When the mind thinks of God, when
the mind chants His name, when the mind is in meditation, when the
mind always sings His glory in bhajans, there is no
desire. When the mind is diverted towards the world, it is full
of desires.
My friends, please understand, this
is only from Swami’s teachings, which are recorded in this book,
Satyōpanisad. For your reference you can go through it.
Here is a simple example given by Baba. This is a hand fan. If I
do this (Anil Kumar waves his hand, fanning away from himself),
you get the breeze. But when I turn the hand fan and wave it
towards me, I get the breeze. Is it not true? Similarly when the
mind is turned toward the world, it is suffocated. It is
breathless. It is full of desires. When the same mind is turned
inward towards consciousness, it is blissful. There are no more
desires.
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