678. Avoid the Lower Desires to Accomplish the Higher Desires....

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Maa Saradadevi, wife and spiritual counterpart of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa has said we have to shun lower desires to have higher desires in spirituality.

As we go along exploring our world and start perceiving the reality around us, our mind projects several desires depending on its plane of maturity and knowledge. It is known fact that every individual has a desire to experience joy in life. Those who have the plane of maturity and knowledge in the lower level seek joy from the objects outside them and this is called yearning for lower desires. 

To fulfill this desire their mind tries to spin the yarn of opportunity around several experiments hoping to make it possible. This process of hit and miss goes on nonstop as the mind has limited knowledge. Amazingly for them even when the joy from the desired object is experienced it does not stay for long as it starts longing it from another. This process of trail and error goes on nonstop as the mind is never satisfied with objects outside. These lower desires also deliver happiness only just by experiencing it not by accumulating. 

Another unbelievable power of this lower desire is that it does not allow the individual to aim for higher desires. Higher desires are those which help in putting ego aside. With ego subdued there is a desire to seek the Universal Truth and know the purpose of this life and wish for the welfare of other. It is not like the lower desire of wishing for self as in possession but it wishes for others as in contribution.Higher desire is an attitude of giving not wanting. 

There is no need to develop higher desire the moment the lower desires are dropped the mind get fixed in the higher desires automatically. There is a need of sincere effort only in letting the lower desire go and the whole exercise is to see that they are dropped.

How to know if the desire is lower or higher???

Mind projects a thought which contains a desire. At the first instance make sure if the desire is fulfilled is it going to make you happy or will it make you as well as other also happy. Find out if there is any compulsive behavior in you to fulfill that desire which is going to keep you alone happy. Observer if fulfilling that desire is going to cause harm to anybody else. If it is a lower desire it might give you instant happiness which will not retain its validity for long. In case of lower desire, the more intensely there is desire to get what is wanted, the more intensely our unhappiness is felt at not getting the object of that desire. Lower desire is an attitude of wanting not giving.

Most importantly if we live for higher desires we are living for now and present not perturbing about future. As in lower desire there is a tagline “I do not have it now” which is an obvious statement to yearn for it and earn it. That which is not making you happy when it is not with you, will never make you happy when it is with you. Realization of this truth is simplicity.

Organize your desires and categorize them. Lower the lower desire to transcend to higher desire. Higher desire is just way of life which when accomplished will fade away and it is then an individual will be experiencing what is in store without yearning for any….!