Sai Baba Gita - Desire makes you Break your Resolutions

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Desire makes you Break your Resolutions

So, there is some power, some force that is hidden within man, that he is not

able to control or understand. If he thinks deeply and tries to discover just

what exactly this power is, he will find that it is related to the three

worldly qualities which are inherent in the human condition. These three

attributes which comprise worldly life characterize the mind and its thinking

process. They are tthe slothful or dull, the active or passionate, and the

serene or calm tendencies. These three attributes, in various combinations,

will dominate a person's life. They will be fostered or diminished by the

quality of the food taken in and by one's tendency towards indulging in or

depriving oneself of sleep.

Of these three attributes, the first two qualities mentioned, that of

slothfulness and furious activity, are likely to encourage you to take the

wrong path. Slothfulness gives rise to dislike, repulsion and anger. An

excessively active nature gives rise to attraction, desire, or attachment to

worldly things. Desire is the most powerful urge making man give up all his

resolutions. It acts as the leader or captain of all the bad qualities.

You can plan certain programs to defeat your external enemies, but all your

plans and strategies will be of no use until you have conquered your inner

enemies. Once you have yielded to your inner enemies, how can you hope to

conquer your external enemies? When these inner enemies have subverted your

will power and defeated all your good intentions, how will you be able to

challenge and conquer your external enemies? This captain of the bad qualities,

desire, has made a hole and entered the house. The others like hatred, anger,

greed and jealousy then follow him into the house. The moment these enemies

have entered into you, you lose all your discrimination and wisdom. The moment

you lose your wisdom you also give up your resolution. Therefore, the most

important reason for not fulfilling your own firm resolve is the welling up of

desire. Let us try to understand this further.

When palaces are constructed as residences for great emperors and kings, there

is usually a fortified wall surrounding the palace, protecting it from

intrusion from outside. There will be a number of guarded gates within this

wall. Similarly, a temple is usually situated within a compound having a

protecting wall around it in which there will be a number of gates or doors.

The body can be thought of as the compound wall enclosing God, who resides

inside in the temple of the heart as the atma. An external fortress or a temple

will be constructed with the help of bricks, cement, sand and mortar, but this

temple of the body is constructed out of flesh and blood. In this body of flesh

there will be a number of gates in the form of the sense organs. It is through

these gates of the senses that desire and the other bad qualities break in, and

invade the inner sanctuary.

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