Message of the Day: Where does desire come from? ஆசை எங்கிருந்து எழுகிறது ?

Where does desire come from? The Buddha said that it comes from ignorance. It is more or less that. It is something in the being which fancies that it needs something else in order to be satisfied. And the proof that it is ignorance is that when one has satisfied it, one no longer cares for it, at least ninety-nine and a half times out of a hundred.   (நம்மில் இருக்கும் ஏதோ ஒரு எண்ணத்தை திருப்தி செய்வதற்காக எழும் எண்ணமே ஆசை. ) I believe, right at its origin it is an obscure need for growth,   as in the lowest forms of life love is changed into the need to swallow, absorb, become joined with another thing. This is the most primitive form of love in the lowest forms of life, it is to take and absorb. Well,the need to take is desire.So perhaps if we went back far enough into the last depths of the inconscience, we could say that the origin of desire is love. It is love in its obscurest and most unconscious form. It is a need to become joined with something, an attraction, a need to take, you see.   Take for instance... you see something which is—which seems to you or is—very beautiful,very harmonious,very pleasant; if you have the true consciousness, you experience this joy of seeing, of being in a conscious contact with something very beautiful, very harmonious, and then that’s all. It stops there. You have the joy of it—that such a thing exists, you see. And this is quite common among artists who have a sense of beauty. For example, an artist may see a beautiful creature and have the joy of observing the beauty,grace,harmony of movement and all that, and that’s all.It stops there.He is perfectly happy,perfectly satisfied, because he has seen something beautiful. An ordinary consciousness, altogether ordinary, dull like all ordinary consciousness—as soon as it sees something beautiful, whether it be an object or a person, hop! “I want it!” It is deplorable, you know. And into the bargain it doesn’t even have the joy of the beauty, because it has the anguish of desire. It misses that and has nothing in exchange, because there is nothing pleasant in desiring anything. It only puts you in an unpleasant state, that’s all.  The Buddha has said that there is a greater joy in overcoming a desire than in satisfying it. It is an experience everybody can have and one that is truly very interesting, very interesting.   There is a kind of inner communion with the psychic being which takes place when one willingly gives up a desire, and because of this one feels a much greater joy than if he had satisfied his desire. Besides, most usually, almost without exception, when one satisfies a desire it always leaves a kind of bitter taste somewhere.  There is not one satisfied desire which does not give a kind of bitterness; as when one has eaten too sugary a sweet it fills your mouth with bitterness. It is like that.You must try sincerely. Naturally you must not pretend to give up desire and keep it in a corner, because then one becomes very unhappy. You must do it sincerely. (ஆசைகளை விட்டுவிட்டோம் என்று எண்ணிக் கொண்டு, மனதில் அதற்கு ஓர் இடத்தை அளிக்காதீர்கள். அது உங்களுக்கு மகிழ்ச்சியை தராது. ஆசையை விடுவது என்பதனை உண்மையாகச் செய்ய வேண்டும்.)