Desires are like hissing cobras. They can bite. They can harm. But can you do away with them? They are necessary in Nature and that is why they are there in the first place. Instead of trying to kill them, take away their poisonous fangs
and then play with them, because they are harmless now. Desires are both means of delight and disaster. Take out the virulent part, and the rest can bring you happiness. If you kill it completely, you are killing all the means of joy. See
the faces of these who claim that they gave up, renounced all desire. Don`t they appear morose, dull? Did Lord Krishna overcome his desires? He removed the fangs from the snakes of desire and played joyfully with them. Thus they became a
source of joy and nothing else. Isn`t it true? This is my view, not acceptable to many. Many questions about spirituality, religion etc., is bereft of the fundamentals. I say `back to the basics.’ because all questions have their basis in
something as natural and intrinsic as, let`s say, the gravitational pull. When the basics are forgotten, all the question arise for us.
One should not forget dualism In Nature. The role of Nature is not just to create, but also to destroy. Nature has both inner and outer outlets. There are two kinds of thieves: those who are outside and those who are dual things. Through
one window comes joy and through the same comes sorrow. The bandits who rob us of our joy are both inside and outside the same itself. He is both the builder and the demolisher. Do not conclude that he is a sadist because he robs us of our
joy, demolishes our house of happiness. He demolishes only to rebuild a better house.
That which is responsible for our joys is also responsible for our sorrows. Take the case of water: when it comes in the form of blood, it takes lives. The same water gives us life when we are dying of thirst. Water in this case is both the
source of our joys and our sorrows.
Desires are insataible because of which, they are a source of continuous joy. Hunger is necessary for us to enjoy a meal. Once our hunger is appeased we are happy. Few hours later, we are hungry and once again the head of desire rears up!
This is a continuous process where a perfect balance is maintained.
Remember continuous happiness is only by an occasional lack of it. Nature is so kind that it has created sorrow only to make our joy and happiness permanent. But we do not understand this. If sorrow disappears, our joy also disappears
because both spring from the same source. This dualistic dependence not only makes our existence possible but meaningful too. It is continuous sunshine which makes a desert. Continuous rain can create a deluge. Suppose we say: `We do not
want rain, we want only continuous sunshine. `Then we are left with only desert. Similarly, continuous happiness also creates desert in human life. `We put aside Nature. That is why we get these doubts. Unless and until we look through the
lenses of Nature, confusion continues. Anything that exists in Nature is born out of infinite intelligence and therefore it ought to be perfect, though we may fail to understand how it is so.
Therefore, the presence of desire and their nature of being insatiable must also be the master strokes (not mistakes) of Nature`s genius. Just as everything in this dualistic world is capable of yielding both joy and sorrow, so do desires.
But what is to be constantly kept in mind is the fact that we should enjoy the desire in such a way (keeping in mind the principle of balance and avoiding the extremes) that it is a source of joy and sorrow. Once we master this art,
insatiable desire becomes a fountain of perennial pleasure.
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