INTRODUCTION
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When you have a headache, you are not comfortable with that state, because you know that it is not your true nature. Your true nature is having no headache. In the same way, when you have some desire, you immediately want to come out of it, because deep fulfillment is your very nature and desire causes an imbalance in that fulfillment
Two important truths you need to understand:
Your whole life is a long chain of events performed towards the one goal of fulfillment. Whatever you may do, whether it is eating or drinking or having relationships, wealth or joy, it is all to experience fulfillment. You seek fulfillment in different directions instead of seeking it directly.
Fulfillment is within you, it is your very nature. That is why you are trying to come out of non-fulfillment. The fact that you are searching for fulfillment means that fulfillment is known to you. Otherwise you would not search for it! In the instances in your life when you have felt some fulfillment, there is also a hope that you will experience it again. That is why you extend your life
What the outer world lures us into are not the right desires to run behind. How we can recognize our innate desires? If you understand which desire is innate and which is borrowed, happiness happens automatically.
The innate and genuine desires carry the energy for their fulfillment and are the true desires. These desires are always selfless desires. They benefit both individual and humanity. Only such desires carry the energy of the universe for fulfillment
Every desire which drives us is nothing
but the desire to experience that ever
living presence. We sometimes have so
many desires, but there is a difference
between out true desires, and our
"borrowed" desires.
Borrowed" desires are called 'wants' and
our true desires are our 'needs'. When
our desires are our own true desires,
when they reflect our real needs, when
they depress themselves in our inner
energy we don't feel any desperation
about trying to achieve them.
Wants are not our true desire; we just want something especially because others have it and even after getting what we want we won't be happy. We will see somebody else and borrow another want from them. When our desires are our own true desires, they reflect our real needs and when they express themselves in our inner energy, we don't feel any desperation about trying to achieve them. The realization comes, that as an of natural course of events, these desires will be fulfilled. We are not driven and we are not troubled. There is deep peace within us.