In this video, I explain what happens when one attains the state of desirelessness. Buddha said, I've come to realize that tanha, the craving, is the chain that binds beings to the wheel of Samsara, that binds humans to the cycle of birth and death. Now Hindu scriptures also say that it's the desire which is responsible for your birth. If you don't have any desire before death, you wouldn't be born again. And then the scripture say that the state of desirelessness can be attained through Self Realization, it can be attained only when you recognize your Divine nature, only when you know the truth of your being beyond the body mind complex. Now allow me to tell you how does desire disappear when you realize your true nature as the Infinite Consciousness beyond the body mind complex? The goal of all desire is happiness. Just look closely and you will see that behind all your actions, there is this desire for happiness. Whatever you do, you do that knowing that you will feel happy at the end of that particular action, or you may be feeling happy while you are doing it. Just think about the case when you have to do something unwillingly, that doesn't pleases you, that doesn't give you any happiness, why, because that is not your desire, any desire that proceeds from you will invariable, will always have the end goal of happiness. So I was telling you how does Self Realization extinguish the fire of all desires? Have you ever thought, what is really the source of happiness. You desire an object, you get it and you feel happy. This is how it goes, no? You wanna have a cookie, you eat it and you feel happy. Now tell me, was happiness present in cookie, or was it already in you, the experience of eating cookie uncovered something within you, and you felt happy. Think over it, I won't give you the answer. I will give you a hint. What happens when you eat a cookie in your dream, does that dream cookie also make you happy? Think over it, is happiness really in the objects or within you. So When you recognize your true nature, you get to the source of all happiness that you experience through different things of this world. And this is how Self Realization brings an end to all your desires, your personal desires, the desires that catered only to your personal gratification. Now after Self Realization, you care more for the well being of others. You become the ocean of compassion, your love knows no boundaries, no limits. That's why you find all Enlightened Masters so compassionate, so loving. That's why Jesus, when he was put to the cross said, O Father, forgive them, for they know not, what they do!!!
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