Guest guest Posted September 4, 2008 Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 Dear Sai Devotees, In this week's eChat, we will learn from the wisdom of Swami Tadatmananda about desires......... -------------------------- Suppose a young child looks in the kitchen cabinet for her favorite breakfast cereal—Fruit Loops. Even though there are five other boxes of cereal, if there are no Fruit Loops, she will cry, "Mom! Where are my Fruit Loops?" She would suffer because of her binding desire for her favorite cereal. You, on the other hand, might go to the same cabinet looking for your favorite cereal. If it were not present, you would simply choose another box without any further thought. Because your desire was non-binding, you would not suffer when your desire went unfulfilled. If you were to have many unfulfilled desires, and all of them were non-binding like the desire for your favorite breakfast cereal, then you could remain perfectly content. But if you had just one binding desire remaining to be fulfilled, that would be sufficient to rob you of contentment and make you suffer. ---------------- The secret to spiritual growth is not to become desireless, but instead to transform all our binding desires into non-binding desires.... OM SAI RAM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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