VISHNU SAHASRA NAMAM - Courtesy ARUN

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294. Kaamahaa -One who destroys all desires. Desires spring forth

from the Vaasanaas. We can experience the Self only on transcending

the vaasanaas. Just as the sun is the destroyer of night, similarly,

the Pure consciousness, the Atman and the Vaasanaas cannot remain at

the one and the same time. The Vaasanaas end when the Atman is

experienced. From the devotees' stand-point, He is the One who

fulfils all his desires. Or He who is the father of Kaama, Pradyumna,

which again is one of the names of Vishnu.

 

Desire is the source from which endless series of other sources of

sorrows flow into the human life. When a desire arises in the mind,

only two things are possible. Either we fulfil the desire or we do

not. In case we get our desires fulfilled, it is natural for the

human mind to crave for more and thus he becomes restless due to

greed. If, on the other hand, the desire is not fulfilled, anger

rises and when anger increases, it brings about delusion of the mind

and makes the victim see things in others, in himself and the

situation he is in, which are not in fact there around him. In such a

deluded one, Wisdom slips away and, naturally, therefore, his

discriminative power cannot function, since he cannot judge the

present situation with reference to any standard ideal that he had in

the past. When the rational discriminative power fades away that man

falls completely off the dignity of mall and becomes worse than a

brute. Geeta charters thus, a steady psychological fall in a

spiritual being, and this entire chain of self-destruction springs

forth from desire. A devotee, or a meditator, when he approaches this

Great Reality, existing in the subjective Core of his own

personality, he transcends all the realms of his desires and passions

and, therefore, this Great Inner Self is indicated here as

the " Destroyer of all Desires " . He is the One who fulfils all desires

in His devotees, and thus bring about a calm fullness of joy within.