WORLDLY DESIRES

In the scriptures, it is said that happiness is not found in objects; it is within one’s own being. Sometimes an individual rejects inner happiness in favor of worldly desires. When you continually think of your worldly desires, you place those thoughts on the object - and your heart cannot breathe. The flow of thoughts keeps going back to that certain object. That which you long for, many times, is not even what you claim to truly want.

To understand the Karmic Space of Worldly Desire is to understand how you are caught in your ego’s identity. Worldly desire is the call of the ego telling you of all you can have; yet to offer your own seed of meditation can stop the longing for worldly desires, which calls you to its depth. Offering your own seed is a deeper space than any worldly desires.

To begin to cut away from worldly desires is to rediscover your love for your path and this brings such freedom. The ego pulls you down to worldly desires. The sense of misery comes from not having what you think you deserve, or coveting what others have. This pulls your attention away from the heart and into the ego. Then, when you find you are miserable enough, you pull yourself away from the ego and into the heart. The knower of truth is always aware of the different states and the slow emerging out of the Karmic Space of Worldly Desires.

Non-attachment to worldly desire does not mean that you cannot prosper. In the absence of worldly desires, there is great joy and bliss in the act of gratitude. This is a big step to a real understanding of the Self. This is when the questions “Who am I?” and “What am I?” are answered.

The complex life draws one into disharmony at home and at work. There is no reason to live in the chaos of the world. One who is in the chaos has always in his mind a constant craving for more and more of worldly desires. Chaos pulls on the vain ego and allows it to go unchecked. The one thing the ego does not want is for you to be simple. Simplicity is an expression of love. Simplicity is an open expression of compassion. People may hurt or betray your heart, yet your Beloved always holds you tight. Trust in your divine Self the way your Beloved trusts in you. Spiritual contentment can be felt in meditation. The world brings instant false satisfaction, but spiritual contentment lasts and lasts.

Ma Jaya

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