Desires in Yoga

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 5 years before Jun 02, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Desires need to be controlled. First one should realize what these desires are and then evaluate their worth. Some desires are worth the effort; others are not worth it unless fate will sponsor those and carry the larger part of their expense.

Here is an example of a desire of mine which fate was reluctant to sponsor. And this is not a desire which I am attached to but it is a desire in my psyche, something that was in the psyche and remains in the psyche no matter what I do.

This is the desire to be well-off. For about 3 years in this life, this desire was being fulfilled. This happened suddenly when my body was 15 years of age. At that time I was living in Guyana in poverty stricken conditions. Then suddenly the father of the body arranged its passage to Trinidad. This is a father who was completely neglectful towards raising this body in its adolescence and infancy.

At that time, the said father had an ample salary as a marine pilot in Trinidad. He rented a palatial house and was living with my step mother and her daughter. Before this I lived in a one room house in which 3 adults and two children (including myself) were living. When I got to Trinidad I was offered my own room. I could not attend high school because I was an immigrant. Still there was a servant’s quarter which was a small cottage. I used that to do my self-studies.

That was the time in this life when fate decreed to permit me to be well-off. That was the beginning and ending of such a fate so far in this life. After that I never was inclined to work hard for living well-off. It just does not make any sense to me. And it is not that I am just a humble person or anything like that. Nor is it that I am attached to poverty.

The truth of the matter is that even though that desire to be well-off is in my psyche, I am not interested in fulfilling it at my expense, nor at the expense of exploiting or using others to make money. In the higher dimensions of the astral world there is so much opulence that poverty is not found in any location. In such a place one is well-off without effort. This is the reason why I won’t be exploiting the resources of the earth or the human beings or any other species on earth to be well-off. I prefer to work in yoga to attain the state of a celestial being who lives in a world where opulence is gained without having to exploit anything.

I can hear someone grumbling in the background, thinking, “How you can be certain that there is an astral world and that it is not all in your mind?”

Well I am certain. That is all you need to know. You are not certain. Therefore it is right for you to fulfill desires to be well-off here on earth. Continue the exploitation and be content doing that. I will keep working for my pipe-dream according to your view.