Our own purpose for living, the motivation to work hard, the inspiration to wake up everyday, the dream that makes us sleep deprived, it is the burning desire inside us that is pumping our heart and driving us. Is it not?
After attending spiritual lectures, watching devotional movies, reading the books by religious leaders and out of personal experiences, I had finally realized the fact that all the miseries in our life were the results of the desires that I had had from the very beginning of my life. The miseries were either the pains that I had to undergo to achieve desire or the side effects that come after achieving the desires.
The recent words from a spiritual leader reiterated the thought that had been reiterated every time after I get what I had desired for, "Nothing comes for free". The ideologies such as "good and bad are bound together", "everything that one experiences currently is the result his previous deeds" also try to explain the corollaries of the one base concept.
Thinking about why desire should even exist, created the chaos in my mind and collapsed the ideologies that I had had on dreams, achievements etc. That chaos finally settled down with the conclusion that desires were always been the driving forces in everyone's life; Desires had made people do great deeds; Desires had revolutionized the world; Desires had brought out the full potential of humans.
Yet, when desires would bring misery with it, why should we even possess it for a temporary happiness? The answer for that question would probably be the state of people to be unhappy with their present. Humans had always wanted to live a greater life and the only way to live such a life was to have a great desire, because desires had always had the power to pull humans to greater living. The achievement of a desire give us the confidence that everything is possible in the world. It also gives a satisfaction in life.
Then the final question arose. When desires had the power to pull humans to greater living, why had not everyone become greater beings? Why could only a very few achieve milestones though most of us had always had great desires? Did the desires really have that magical pulling power in them? The following example would perhaps bias us towards the belief that desires have the pulling power.
If we desire to have a chocolate, does the desire not pull us towards the chocolate and make us eat it?
The answer for the question about the existence of the pulling power of the desires lies in the type of the desire everyone possesses. There comes the term, which I would like to call as, "Desire Chasing". It means the constant action of redefining the desire based on one or more factors.
Now there are two types of desire chasers: the first type are the people who see the possibility of achieving their desires, move towards it and when their desire is in a closer reach, they extend their desire to a higher level and the second is the type of people who have a desire and when they find a better desire, they give up on the first desire and try to find the possibility for the second and if they find a better desire, they quit the second desire and so on, without moving a step towards any of the desires.
The second type of desire chasers are the people do not have the desire to achieve great deeds, instead they have the desire to have great desires. So ultimately, their desire simply pulls them to have a better desire and once they get a great desire in their mind, their desire makes them find a greater desire and hence they would not be able to achieve anything in their life.
So, we should always be careful on what we desire for and we should also note about the fact that desires are going to bring a greater misery, Hence, we should be ready to face the misery to achieve a greater good. Giving up on a desire just because of the fear about the misery that comes with it, is the most coward behavior anyone could ever have. Of all the desires, the greatest desire is the desire that was possessed by Buddha, i,e,. to not have any desire in life. Hence, let me conclude that being desire-less is the ultimate desire of a human.
After attending spiritual lectures, watching devotional movies, reading the books by religious leaders and out of personal experiences, I had finally realized the fact that all the miseries in our life were the results of the desires that I had had from the very beginning of my life. The miseries were either the pains that I had to undergo to achieve desire or the side effects that come after achieving the desires.
The recent words from a spiritual leader reiterated the thought that had been reiterated every time after I get what I had desired for, "Nothing comes for free". The ideologies such as "good and bad are bound together", "everything that one experiences currently is the result his previous deeds" also try to explain the corollaries of the one base concept.
Thinking about why desire should even exist, created the chaos in my mind and collapsed the ideologies that I had had on dreams, achievements etc. That chaos finally settled down with the conclusion that desires were always been the driving forces in everyone's life; Desires had made people do great deeds; Desires had revolutionized the world; Desires had brought out the full potential of humans.
Yet, when desires would bring misery with it, why should we even possess it for a temporary happiness? The answer for that question would probably be the state of people to be unhappy with their present. Humans had always wanted to live a greater life and the only way to live such a life was to have a great desire, because desires had always had the power to pull humans to greater living. The achievement of a desire give us the confidence that everything is possible in the world. It also gives a satisfaction in life.
Then the final question arose. When desires had the power to pull humans to greater living, why had not everyone become greater beings? Why could only a very few achieve milestones though most of us had always had great desires? Did the desires really have that magical pulling power in them? The following example would perhaps bias us towards the belief that desires have the pulling power.
If we desire to have a chocolate, does the desire not pull us towards the chocolate and make us eat it?
The answer for the question about the existence of the pulling power of the desires lies in the type of the desire everyone possesses. There comes the term, which I would like to call as, "Desire Chasing". It means the constant action of redefining the desire based on one or more factors.
Now there are two types of desire chasers: the first type are the people who see the possibility of achieving their desires, move towards it and when their desire is in a closer reach, they extend their desire to a higher level and the second is the type of people who have a desire and when they find a better desire, they give up on the first desire and try to find the possibility for the second and if they find a better desire, they quit the second desire and so on, without moving a step towards any of the desires.
The second type of desire chasers are the people do not have the desire to achieve great deeds, instead they have the desire to have great desires. So ultimately, their desire simply pulls them to have a better desire and once they get a great desire in their mind, their desire makes them find a greater desire and hence they would not be able to achieve anything in their life.
So, we should always be careful on what we desire for and we should also note about the fact that desires are going to bring a greater misery, Hence, we should be ready to face the misery to achieve a greater good. Giving up on a desire just because of the fear about the misery that comes with it, is the most coward behavior anyone could ever have. Of all the desires, the greatest desire is the desire that was possessed by Buddha, i,e,. to not have any desire in life. Hence, let me conclude that being desire-less is the ultimate desire of a human.
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