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away from it… and if afflicted with it, to try not know whether it is desire or something
and get over it, transcend it. At the same time, transcending it…) to express and share it. And
as human beings, it is quite difficult to do as is the magnanimity of life’s mechanism —
either, and yet, it is a part of the process of reciprocity in operation of energy — as the
Self-realisation – to go beyond desire. What expressions are invoked and allowed to flow,
makes it all the more difficult to keep away much more comes out, gleaned unbeknownst
from and transcend desire is that, in a way, it from the One Infinite Reservoir… One Source
serves as an impetus, a driving force to move of all and everything…the Universal Energy
through life, identifying and moving towards of Creation… the Divine…
the goal and mission. Hence, it has also been
stated, that desire, on its own, isn’t something James has beautifully presented the prudence
profane. Rather, desire gets us going…for and essentiality of dissolving desire. Instead of
the desired…initiates and propagates our combatting it, one dissolves it by transforming it
concentrated effort towards the fulfilment into the aspiration for the Highest… dissolving
of our aims. in the “true consciousness” (as he notes), our
Truth, aspiring for the dissolution in the
Sri Aurobindo affirms, “Desire is at once the Divine. Forwarding the Mother’s and Sri
motive of our actions, our lever of accomplishment Aurobindo’s guidance on the same, he has
and the bane of our existence (1).” woven the article, extending the insights on
what desire is, what it does, how it harms, and
It is riddling, for life, as we perceive it on and on ways to transform it, the transformation
from the physical plane, is relative, and hence, holding the key to transcending it…. The
filled with the dualities — in fact, multiplicities. wisdom and guidance shared, in and through
Everything has its many antonyms, as well as the article, leads to the correlation: “Aha! This
synonyms, acquiring an identity which is purely too is an energy transformation, the journey from
contextual! From ‘where’ we are coming, desire to aspiration!”
‘where’ implying our level of consciousness,
serves as a determinant too, as consciousness, How is the transformation of desire to
guides our perception, so makes us receive aspiration an energy transformation?
and respond to a context… And again, it is
all, the infinite Energy at play, presenting the Yes, it is yet another reflection and manifestation
riveting as well as bewildering displays… of the Law of Conservation of Energy….
Everything (and every being) being energy
Transforming desire to aspiration, an energy in form and flow, nothing is actually created
transformation or destroyed (uprooted). The form simply
changes – and transformation it is, when the
Reading and re-reading ‘Dissolving desire’ in flow of energy is upward… that energy could
the April 2018 issue of NAMAH, an enriching be in the form of an evolved intention and
and affirming article by James Anderson, motivation, directing the flow of energy
one guided by the teachings of the Mother upward. When it is for the Divine, when the
and Sri Aurobindo — I got led to a lot and being yearns for, aspires for the Divine, it is
also got led to a correlation ... an urge (do an upward spiral, the energy resonating with

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