Desire Renunciation And A Limited Self

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We know without desire living is not possible. It amazes me the way the concept of desirelessness has been taught and understood in our society.

We know a desire and dreams helps human moving in his life With desire human eat, drink and walk, With desire human talk, dance and sing, With desire human search, paint, and construct. With the desire, we want to live and die!

If everything happens with desire then how can we say a desire is not good hence be desireless?

How can we say desirelessness is the highest state of existence? It is a state of Rushiness!

We exist in a society, and we have relations with the people around us. Relations which carry their names.

The name may be a friend, parents, son sister, brother, neighbor, citizen native, member, acquainted, or even unknown.

Each named relation has its own Dharma And we interact with people around in the guidance of that dharma Dharma has attached responsibilities and actions.

If the desire is not at the root of all actions, Then how can we do our Dharma (actions)? How come a Dharma driven society is taught to be desireless?

Perhaps the meaning of desire has been misunderstood and miscommunicated Perhaps they wanted to communicate that don’t desire anything for the self. And we as a society and an individual failed to understand the meaning of desirelessness.

Ah! philosophy is fine, but how can a thinking person work tirelessly without bothering for the self? When we exist as a body, Our first dharma is towards our nearest, And our living body is nearest to us.

How can we be Dharmi while ignoring our nearest, this body, and this mind?

Your philosophies say with selfish desire a human becomes cruel. But is this a problem of desire or limited self?

If all the time we are thinking about me and mine and this me and mine is so narrow that it never crosses two-three people around us and our own body, Then this narrow me and mine is the source of pain, problems, and conflicts.

We do not suffer because of desire We suffer because of the narrow me and mine!

Desire to live is a basic desire this is prevalent in all living beings that is why the fight and flight response is inbuilt in all lives. And this is the basis of human survival. In the absence of desire why to fight or why to flight? Be ready to die all the time!

In human life, desires can be of any size and kind But we need to keep in mind that Before I desire something I need to understanding “I” And expand the living experience of “I” So that human does not suffer because of limited identity, a limited “I”.

In that state of awareness whatever largest “I” you experience, Desire from that perspective, Larger your umbrella of awareness Lesser is the problem in your desire.

Your larger experience can be I am a family of 5 people or Village of thousand people or City of million people or Religion of billion people or Nation of billions of people or Male or Female of half human population or Humanity of this earth or Living being of this planet or Brahmin, the ultimate being of cosmos.

We are not animal of the forest who just bother about their bodily survival, their family or their race. A wise human can desire for co-existence, happy existence of all. But that is possible only when when I think about the survival of my unlimited “Self” And what is this unlimited “Self”?

Your philosophies say (Vidhur Niti) For the sake of a family, one person can be renounced For the sake of a village, one family can be renounced For the sake of a Janapada, one village can be renounced For the sake of “Self”, one Janapada or Kingdom can be renounced.

We need to introspect, What is that “Self” which motivates human to remain in motion and action?

What is that self for which, sages say, human should not desire?

What is that “Self” for which, Upanishad is recommending to leave the kingdom?

Hari Om Tat Sat Your Turely Hari