Desire

        Desires cannot be wiped away or eliminated. We have to regularise them, to moralise them, so that they may bring success, satisfaction, harmony and peace in life. In other words, we have to streamline our desires. Take a particular desire, which is such that you know fully well it cannot be fulfilled. You put to yourself the question, “What is the purpose in retaining and developing this desire?” There is another desire within the possibility of fulfillment but the process could result in pain, misery and conflict in your relationship with the society. Should you have to pay such a heavy price when your objective is to attain peace and happiness through fulfillment of that desire?

-Vethathiri Maharishi