Lets check the world of
desires. Creating any desire and fulfilling it is like putting your
foot into the mud then washing it by clean water and then thinking,
“See how clean is my foot now! It was so dirty few minutes
ago!” without realizing that you yourself made it dirty by
putting it into the mud.
You are sitting
comfortably in your drawing room. You desire, “I should enjoy
some food delicacies.” You approach a shop nearby. Being Sunday
the shop is closed. Your urge is strong. You drive to city. Get into
good restaurant. Eat food. Come back to house and again sit
comfortably in the drawing room. What is the difference between the
initial and the final stages? Nothing! Thus you create desire. Take
all sorts of pains to fulfill it. Fulfill it ultimately. And feel
satisfied all about it. Hadn’t you created desire, there
wouldn’t have been any restlessness. In other words, you create
restlessness first and pacify it later on.
There is a man. He is a
worker. His earnings are quite sufficient to run his household and to
take care of his family. On day he desires, “I must start
business.” Before deciding on business, he thought that he was
unhappy with his current sate of affairs and should look for more
money or higher status.
He is successful in
business and now has four Mercedes cars and many costly apartment.
Still he thinks that he needs to diversify into other venture to
grow. Again he thinks exactly same, as he thought before starting the
business, that he is unhappy with his current sate of affairs and
must look for more money or higher status.
What is the conclusion?
Desires are like black holes. They will never get satisfied
completely. Desires will consume every thing, whatever it may be,
offered to them and will be ready with other demands. In other words,
before acquiring any object or status, you think those objects will
make you happy and you will not need anything any further. After
acquiring those objects, they do give you pleasure but it is
short-lived and later on it becomes a routine work without any
excitement which was present when the objects were new.