Resumo de Achieve Infinite High Sublimate Desires

A large black bee was buzzing around a lotus in full bloom. Drawn by the fragrance, the bee sat on the flower.With the setting sun, the flower?s petals began to close. The bee, intoxicated with the sweet smell, did not budge and got trapped. A similar outcome is possible when, lured by our senses, we experience undue attachment to objects of desire. When one sense-object can lead to such a disastrous outcome for the bee, what will be the plight of man who is in the grip of all his five senses?Psychologists do not subscribe to this concern of spiritual seekers. Sigmund Freud said, ?Desires are man?s natural proclivities. They should be allowed to flow freely?. Forced subjugation often proves dangerous; for subjugation can never wipe out desires completely. In subduing desires, we allow them to make our subconscious mind home to unfulfilled desires. This, in turn, leads to mental distractions. They look for an opportune time to surface and burst out in an explosive form.Indeed , the argument of psychoanalysts is logical. Spiritualists also hold the same view. Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad-Gita, ?Abstinence from food can keep sensual objects at bay, but not the desire or attachment to them?. If eyes are obstinately diverted from attractions the tongue is deprived of tasty food, even then the propensity of mind towards them cannot be pacified. This attachment, on receiving appropriate impetus and ignition, will again make us fall prey to the senses. The Ashwagosha says: ?Your celibacy is of no avail if you are adulterous in mind?.Even if we allow senses to consume whatever they wish to, we would never be contended. Lure of senses increases with every additional consumption of a sense object. It will demand more and more. Fed up with excessive sensual pleasures, King Bhratrihari said, ?Youth that evoked sensuality is now gone. Now I walk with the help of a stick. My frail body trembles like the stick I am holding. All my teeth have fallen, my eyesight is diminishing. My ears are incapable of hearing. Despite all this, my mind still craves for pleasures of the senses. What a tragedy??Desire is like an internal chain reaction. This chain reaction keeps repeating without break. In this manner, countless reactions lead to infinite energy. However, unbridled energy could prove to be destructive. Whenever desire arises in us for an object, it(desire) gets satisfied there and then? Certainly not! Fulfillment of one desire leads to many other desires. Spiritualism, therefore, essentially holds the view that ? we do not consume objects of pleasure; rather it is the sense-objects that consume us?.The solution to the problem is neither subjugation of desires nor free flow of desires. Lord Krishna says ?Man attains release from sense bound maladies after direct perception of God?. It is normal human tendency to forgo an inferior Object when given a superior object. God denotes eternal bliss. How can then any pleasure of the world compete with it? On perceiving supreme Brahmn, the soul drinks deep into the trans-sensuous eternal bliss. All other pleasures of the world are but subordinate to this bliss. Attachment to sensual pleasures automatically wears off. It is possible to sublimate desires. Desires and attachment to sense objects can be turned God-ward by perception of Supreme within through Brahmn Gyan.

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