Desire Fulfillment
I ask one question:
How many desires should a yogi complete?
Which desires should he or she complete?
In which life should those desires be completed?
With whom should one be cooperative with in the fulfillment of desires?
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These questions arise because of steady pressure being applied to me from various persons whom my body is related to and also persons whom my body is unrelated to. This is due to years of observation of how this pressure operates, as to its effectiveness and my conclusion that it is near impossible for any of the students to get the better of the situation.
The ancestral pressure in lieu with their psychic slaves who have physical bodies is so great as to diminish the counteracting power of a student, such that he or she will succumb to influences which contravene yoga, which keep the student stalled.
Some time ago on the astral plane, I was with some friends whom I knew during the latter teen years of my body. These persons are now at least six years of age. However when we meet in the astral existence, their subtle bodies, assume the forms which the physical bodies had at that time. Usually the conversation resumes to what it was like during the teen years when we lived in the same area and associated. However the key aspect of this meeting is for the continuation of that association which was disrupted by time and circumstances, by influences from others persons and by demands of society about teenagers getting placed somewhere in the work force.
One friend was keen to say that we (the group of friends) should stick together and should meet again to continue the life we enjoyed during the teen years. He felt that it should be continued and that if we made an endeavor, we could somehow cause that life to be resumed.
When and where, this would happen, he did not explain. His main opinion is that we should remember those teen years and strive to repeat those behaviors sometime in the near future.
How does this sound to you?
Does this sound rational?
Is this crazy?
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From the point of view of inSelf Yoga™ such a proposal is absurd. In the first place, inSelf Yoga™ recognizes that the individual limited self (jivatma) cannot be in a position to set any absolute arrangements for itself. That will not happen. Everything which this self does, occurs by the allowance of a providence which this self neither can create nor destroy. In all respects, this self is relative to the all-surrounding reality which it exists in.
Whatever happened in this creation was bound to happen because of the composition of this place. This is a preset situation. There is variation. There is leeway for the individual desires of a self but only within the scope of the whole layout. The desires of the self are mostly infestations into the nature of the self, which the self mistakes for its own creations or imagination. The truth is that most of what the self identifies as its own is someone else’s.
If I to live under the spell of desire, there arises a question as to whose desire and for how long should that desire consume my attention before another one consumes my energy. If I cannot drop a partially-fulfilled desire, and if providence has no intention of allowing me the full range of it, how will I ever find peace of mind?
It is best that a yogi should distance himself from desire even from ones which providence facilitates for him. Providence will never share its autonomy with a yogi. Yes, sometimes we see a floating log on the crest of a wave but that is temporary support only. The power under the log is not the log itself. It is the influence of fate.
