In this Bhakti, there are no desires from the beloved. See these desires that we make I want this! I want this! I want this! These desires will never have any end. We think O God! you know I don't have any other desire but this one desire if you can please fulfill these, after that I will never ask for anything. That fellow who is thinking in this manner is very simple, because the moment desire is fulfilled it will lead to greed. That desire will come back with redoubled intensity. This is the material world people always know I have this deficiency; I have this deficiency. I have got this problem; I am going to problem to problem. So if we ask God there will be no end we will keep on asking. So what happens in these asking? My desire is fulfilled Shree Krishna is very good, not fulfilled he is not good, he is alright. I have been harmed, Shree Krishna, there is no goodness in him. He is very hard-hearted.
Our love for him will oscillate like this. Like it does in the world. My husband is very good very bad. My wife is very good very bad. These drama goes on 10 times in a day. The same thing we will do towards God and Guru also. If our formula is that they should fulfill my desire. Now the thing is that these desires we are making are on the wrong platform. There are on this platform of ignorance that I am the body. So because we are thinking I am the body, for the happiness of the body we will going to make desires. Now we have to decide I am not the body, I am the soul. So if I am the soul then what should I desire you should still not desire because desire is against the nature of love.
This love is that in which the only desire to give and give. In other words, it's not for our happiness, it is for the happiness of beloved. You desire to make Shree Krishna Happy. In other words, you desire to please him, to give him happiness and when you give him happiness he is not a miser, he will multiply it many folds and will give to back and that happiness that you get in giving to him that is the happiness of divine love which is the sweetest of all which is so sweet that Brahmaji to become a blade of Grass in the land Vrindavan to relish that and Udhavji become really a blade of grass. It means you learn to desire the right thing.
- If God has given you a wonderful voice, desire to glorify him with your musical abilities.
- If God has given you a good literary skill, then desire to write something in his glorification.
- If God has given you a business acumen, then desire to earn and glorify the Lord with your wealth.
In other words, whatever God has given you, you desire to glorify him with that. So when we desire to serve him with everything our desires become perfectly oriented and we experience the highest bliss which is the bliss of the soul.
Thank you Swamiji for this beautiful article.
ReplyDeleteVery nice, Swamiji has shown very good direction for our desire which can lead to attain unlimited divine bliss.
ReplyDeleteVery beautuful,Nice.....Radhey Radhey Swamiji
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ReplyDeleteThe happiness of divine love is the sweetest of all.
ReplyDeleteThis is the right kind of happiness.
In the material world, people always have one
ReplyDeletedeficiency or the other.If we ask God to fulfill them,
there will be no end to it and we will keep on asking.
"If our desire is fulfilled, we say God is good,if not,we say He is not good.If I am harmed I will call Him hard hearted. Our love for Him will oscillate like this."
ReplyDeleteVery nicely explained by Swami Mukundananda ji the consequences of worldly desires. There will not be any satiation to the material desires. If one desire is fulfilled the greed comes and will want more and more. There will be no limit. Infinite times these desires are filled. But never completely satisfied. In contradiction if we understand that we are the soul and if we would like to serve God with the abilities we have, our intention becomes pure and we will be satisfied spiritually in doing that. God will reciprocate and gives satisfaction multiplying it. Even in Divine realm we should not keep any desires except serving the Lord selflessly with all abilities without any expectation in return.
ReplyDeleteThank you Swamiji for Beautiful messages and divine wisdom...Really grateful for your teachings
Very True
DeleteWhat should one desire, beautifully explained by Swamiji. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteIn the Bhakti marg, there are no desires from the beloved because desire is against the nature of love.But whatever God has given us, we desire to glorify him with that. So when we desire to serve him with everything our desires become perfectly oriented and we experience the highest bliss which is the bliss of the soul.
ReplyDelete"When we desire to serve Him with everything,our desires become perfectly oriented and we experience the highest bliss."
ReplyDelete"In the realm of divine love,the only desire is to give .Its for the
ReplyDeletehappiness of our beloved.If you desire for the happiness of your Lord,
He ll multiply it manyfolds."
God has given us so many qualities, like if someone has nice voice,then should be use the voice through glorifying to God. We should be gratitude at Him anytime for anything.
ReplyDeleteradhe radhe
ReplyDeleteGod is omni present.
ReplyDelete" The happiness of divine love is the sweetest of all and this is the right kind of happiness."
ReplyDelete"If our desire is fulfilled, we say God is good,if not,we
ReplyDeletesay He is not good.If I m harmed I ll call Him hard
hearted. Our love for Him will oscillate like this."
Beautiful article.
ReplyDeleteConsequences of worldly desires will never help us get rid of maya. Hence we should divert our desires towards Hari Guru. Very crisp and clear explanation by Swamiji.
ReplyDelete"In bhakti,there are no desires from God.Our desires have no end.The moment one desire is fulfilled,it leads to greed."
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