Thursday, March 26, 2009
Understanding the nature of desire
- Ramakrishna:
- Bound souls, worldly people, are like silkworms. The worms can cut through their cocoons if they want, but having woven the cocoons themselves, they are too much attached to them to leave them. And so they die there.
(p. 247)
- Mahendra:
- Why does one slip from the path of yoga?
- Ramakrishna:
- While thinking of God, the aspirant may feel a craving for materal enjoyment. It is this craving that makes him slip from the path...
- Mahendra:
- Then what is the way?
- Ramakrishna:
- No salvation is possible for a man as long as he has desire, as long as he hankers for worldly things.
(p. 325)
- Ramakrishna:
- If there are no desires, the mind naturally looks up toward God.
(p. 346)
- Ramakrishna:
- The desire for bhakti cannot be called a desire. You may desire bahkti and pray for it.
(p. 347)
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