Desire - Lesson 6

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE SUPPRESSES THEIR DESIRES?

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Except transformation, there is no other way to escape from desires. Just divert the energy and let it become pure. When you transform you will have the pure desire without it being directed towards any object. Desire without object is energy. When your energy is attached to an object, it becomes desire and when the desire is detached from the object it becomes energy.

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That is why in Vedic systems,
we call desire as icchha shakthi
(Will Power) or desire energy.
As long as there is no object, it
leads you to bliss. When there is
an object, it leads you to
bondage. You can only
transform or purify it through
meditation, never suppress it
which only leads to more
problems.

When man ponders over the pleasures of the senses, there arises an association with it; means you start associating yourself with it. From association arises the desire, from desire the desire turns into anger, from anger arises delusion - unconsciousness; from the delusion - unconsciousness makes the mind unsteady. The destruction of understanding happen in an unsteady mind and the destroyed understanding annihilates the person.