PURITY -3 : SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

02/06/2019
3.

There are desires of a different type, like *sexual desire.

#It is neither good nor bad, like fire. 

Do you consider fire as a good thing or a bad thing? 

#You cannot say anything about it. "It can destroy or it can cook your food." 

So, likewise, sexual desire is a conservative process of maintaining a balance in the system, it is not capable of definition in a cut-and-dried manner. 

*It is, as any desire is, relative to circumstance. 

*But if it is a passion, you may distinguish between desire and passion. 

#Passion is voluptuous, tumult-like, and makes one sick afterwards. Great discrimination has to be exercised here.

#There is a famous passage called Kama Gita in the Mahabharatam. The desire says, "People try to conquer me, but they do not know that even the desire to conquer me is a desire, they don’t understand that, so I am behind all their attempts."

#Desire for 'PARAMATMA' sublimates all other mortal desires. The higher absorbs the lower, the lower should be transmuted to the higher by meditation.

THE END.