He who is filled with desires is the poorest man in the world -Man minus desire is God (Man - Desire = GOD)

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What is the meaning of ‘Ceiling on Desires’?

 

People become deluded by unlimited desires, and live in a dream world. It is most important to keep desires under control, to put a ceiling on them. People are spending too much money. Instead of spending inordinately for their own pleasure, one should be spending for the relief of the poor and the needy. This is the meaning of the ‘Ceiling on Desires’ programme. Do not make the mistake of thinking that giving away money is all that is needed, giving away to others while allowing your own desires to continue to multiply. Curtail your desires, for materialistic desires lead to a restless and disastrous life. Desires are a prison. One can be freed only by limiting one’s wants. You should have desires only for bare necessities

 

He who is filled with desires is the poorest man in the world

 

Reduce Your Wants.............................. DesiresConstantly discriminate between the Preya-Marga and the Sreya-Marga, the Pleasant Path and the Good Path. You will have to do this again and again every time the mind tempts you to follow the ways of the world, to imitate others. This desire to imitate others is exceedingly powerful and overpowers even a wise man. Worry not about finding money to buy a scooter (when you have no need for a scooter) just because all your friends come on scooters. Do not bother about how to send your son to the States only because your neighbors have sent their kids to California and Cambridge. Keep away from temptationsof all sorts. Do not walk into places of temptation and then struggle to resist temptation. It will tax your will unnecessarily. Even if you succeed in resisting the temptation, it may leave a craving in the mind. Craving induces

restlessness.Do not multiply your wants and then feel like a beggar. Reduce your wants and feel like a king. Why should you enter a cloth shop and see many varieties presented before your eyes when you have enough clothing at home? Either you will buy unnecessary things. Or feel sad, "Oh, I don't have this. Ah, how I wish I could buy that!" Peace of mind and material greed are incompatibles. They do not go together. Make your choice.Reduce your wants to the barest minimum consistent with your general external activities. The fewer the wants and possessions the greater the peace of mind. Possession gives pain. The point is so obvious that it needs no explanation. Hire a taxi rather than own a car.Live in a rented flat rather than possess your

own house.Most of us suffer, not for want of right knowledge or wisdom, but for want of exercise of that wisdom in our daily life. If you want peace of mind, at once stop doing all those things which you know you should not do. And, equally important, start doing all thosethings which you know you should do. This will set you on the right track, and when you are on the right track, God's Grace will flow into your life and make it more and more sublime. You will gain peace of mind and radiate peace all around you. Faith has to beexercised. Love has to be exercised. Selflessness has to be exercised. Charity has to be practiced. Dispassion has to be practiced. Devotion has to be cultivated. These qualities, these virtues do not arise, in you over night. They have to be assiduously cultivated before they can become a natural, a habitual, an integral part of your being.Jai Sai Ram

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Sri Sai - Peave be to all---On Tue, 7/28/09, madhu c <cmadhu.h wrote:

madhu c <cmadhu.hRe: Man minus desire is God (Man - Desire = GOD) Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 10:04 AM

 

 

 

dear sir, how can somebody concentrate on something, when their desires r not fulfiled?

atleast the basic things shud get fulfilled know like, studies,marriage, children, some money to live,parents their desires and all.

baba has only told in sachharita know

we shud not be greedy,but also we shud have watever we want that is desire.

if we have that desire only we can achieve something.

we cant become god.we r human beings.

anyways i am sorry if ai am rude.

DEAR BABA PLZ FULFILL ALL THOSE COUPLE WHO DONT HAVE KIDS

PLZ BLESS THEM WITH CHILDREN

 

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM, swamy mahadevan <mahadevanvnswamy@ > wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man - Desire = GOD

 

Suppose you want to eat a fruit. Do you want the fruit for your sake or the sake of the fruit? No. You want the fruit because you wish to enjoy it... Similarly, every desire you have is for the gratification of your own self. There is something in you that drives you, and that driving force arises because you are either consciously or unconsciously seeking satisfaction for yourself. However, in all cases, it is the lower self that is involved; that is why one describes all such actions as selfish. In spirituality, one must focus on the Higher Self; all actions must spring from the desire to satisfy this Higher or Real Self. This is true Self-satisfaction. Actions aiming at satisfying the Inner Self are not selfish in the worldly sense because they are far from worldly desires and petty

expectations.