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Without having the desire to eat a Mango or Rasagulla, or without needing a Tea or Coffee, how can I enjoy eating or drinking? How can I enjoy a new Saree without liking it? 🫣🦋🦚✨[…]

Similarly, without having the desire to see the Beach and beautiful Natural Scenery, how will I enjoy? Similarly, every action of mine, I don’t think I can enjoy without the desire for that action. You mean monotonously wear, live and eat as it comes to you?

So I feel, the desire should not be aggressive, for consuming and possessing everything, from everyone and anyone, I like, by forcibly snatching, like Duryodhana. So, I should also know to renounce for the sake of others. Or shouldn’t compel others to get my desires fulfilled. This is what one can do before realising The One Divine everywhere. Then, maybe desireless enjoyment is possible.

In reference to Sri Aurobindo on Isha Vashyam:

“The Rule of the Divine Life (CWSA Vol. 17: Isha Upanishad)

Enjoyment of the universe and all it contains is the object of world-existence, but renunciation of all in desire is the condition of the free enjoyment of all.

The renunciation demanded is not a moral constraint of self-denial or a physical rejection, but an entire liberation of the Spirit from any craving after the forms of things.

The terms of this liberation are freedom from egoism and, consequently, freedom from personal desire. …”

(Ref. https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/17/the-inhabiting-godhead-life-and-action#p16)

What you are proposing is that the desires should first be sublimated from the rajasic asuric mode to the sattwic daivic mode through a conscious cultivation of godlike temperament as revealed in chapter 16 of the Gita. It is only when one has tamed desire from the wild, unruly horse to the horse obedient to the discerning intellect that we are ready for the next step.

The next step is to want nothing, ask for nothing, crave for nothing. This implies a constant practice of equanimity as well as a complete faith in the Divine that whatever is needed will come. When things come, we receive and enjoy them as gifts of Grace, dealing with them divinely and not egoistically. We possess nothing, covet nothing, knowing that we are mere trustees. Things are with us today and while they are with us, we should treat each object, each person, each moment as being given by the Divine. But when they pass into other hands, we should set them free without the least regret or sense of loss.

Of course, this comes through persistent practice and constant reminder, above all by the Divine Grace. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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