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Namah Going Beyond Desire and Aversion

of time. The intensity and length of this Put simply, desire is just a consequence of not
experience depends on the individual nature living one’s Truth. It is a sign of wrong living;
and also the level and mode of the desire. desire is not in its true place. But very few
The interval may even bring a semblance of can claim to be clear of it. Desire’s tentacles
relief. However, unhealthy morbid patterns spread over virtually every living being on
and habitual tendencies will also come the planet, not just human. It is the chief
up with the recoil of aversion. One may moving-force behind the animal kingdom.
experience a huge weight of guilt and But the mental side to man gives the state
self-blame for having succumbed to the its lethal twist and provides an additional
desire in the first place. We shrink and cause of human suffering.
any feeling of self-worth may get shot to
pieces. One may slump into depression. We are what we are, in our present status within
Just as desire inflates, the resulting aversion time and space. We have to acknowledge that
brings with it psychological emaciation. It we are vessels in transition. We are applying
twists the lower vital into uncomfortable effort to grow and we are consciously
contortions; it might even turn this side of practising at changing our nature and our
our nature in upon itself in an atmosphere lives. The Divine has summoned us and we
of self-harm. are heeding her call. We are evolving souls on
the same path, aiming to bring harmony and
true fulfilment into our existence. Finally, we
have realised that there is no longer any space
for desire or any other wrong movement in
our lives. But one has to progress very far to
become desire-less and free. We have to work
at bringing the psychic being forward and
establishing the true consciousness, whose
dynamic alignment with Force gives it the
capacity to transform and change.

Our journey “The first condition for getting rid of desire is
therefore, to become conscious with the true
This article is not really written for the curious. consciousness; for then it becomes easier to
It is addressed to those sincere about dismiss it than when one has to struggle with
transforming their entire way of living. It is it as if it were a constituent part of oneself
not only about desire and aversion because to be thrown out from the being. It is easier
it is my understanding that Integral Yoga to cast off an accretion than to excise what is
can offer a panacea for all human woes. So, felt as a parcel of our substance.
why stop at one single affliction? They are
all interconnected. The yogic practice is valid “When the psychic being is in front, then also
for the full range of human afflictions. But we to get rid of desire becomes easy; for it has
need to engage vast resources of aspiration only aspiration and a seeking and love for the
and apply effort to overcome them. Divine and all things that are or tend towards

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