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Namah Dissolving desire

and effortless at the same time. If we stay clear bare minimum, a round-the-clock awareness
of mental interference, our consciousness is required.
can spontaneously respond to these negative
inputs. I believe that desire can be transformed. There
is a psychic counterpart to it and that lies in
“The first condition for getting rid of desire the deepest aspiration. Once we climb over
is, therefore, to become conscious with the that fence, our entire orientation changes, —
true consciousness; for then it becomes much “what you have to do is to shift the objective of
easier to dismiss it than when one has to desire; instead of turning it towards things that
struggle with it as if it were a constituent part are external, artificial, superficial and egotistical,
of oneself to be thrown out from the being. It you must join it as a force of realisation to the
is easier to cast off an accretion than to excise aspiration directed to the truth (3).”
what is felt as a parcel of our substance.
Transforming desire
“When the psychic being is in front, then
also to get rid of desire becomes easy; for the An ultimate remedy is to move from ‘awareness’
psychic being has in itself no desires, it has to ‘consciousness’ because then our attention
only aspirations and a seeking and love for the becomes truly effective. The key is inner
Divine and all things that are or tend towards connection. When one aligns to one’s true
the Divine (2).” nature, the necessary shift occurs and the
answers come. These answers may be
In the early stages of growth at the very least, unspoken, and usually are, but they have a
safeguards should definitely be made. Desire remedial effect throughout all our being. Then
is very contagious and it is better to avoid the matrix becomes truly dynamic and desire,
those places and people where this vibration like everything else, will get transformed.
swarms. It is not easy to elevate one’s
consciousness when environmentally there References
is such a gravitational pull on it. In time,
one begins to recognise and then filter this 1. Sri Aurobindo. Birth Centenary Library, Volume
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least, it is difficult to separate ourselves from 1970, p. 1399.
it. The company we keep can have a massive
impact on our lives. We need also to look at 2. Ibid., p. 1398.
our own company. Is there a tendency for our
condition to plummet when one is alone and 3. The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 3.
bored or listless? One needs to be extremely 2 ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
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aligned to be immune to such influences. As a Trust; 2003, p. 194.

James Anderson is a member of SAIIIHR and coordinating editor of NAMAH.

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