Here’s some wonderful notes on managing desires that was discussed recently in our satsang.
Firstly, can we completely get rid of desires?
Nope, because then we couldn’t even get out of bed.
So what can we do then?
We manage our desires of course, we take care of our desires, rather than just pretending to give them up altogether.
Interestingly Lord Krishna in the Gita says that there are 3 really bad qualities – desires, anger and greed. And even amongst these, the worst is desires, because that somewhat leads to the other two!
Continued tomorrow…