Mystery of Desires and
The Reality of Worldly Pleasure

We know that at every moment we have a number of desires. The presence of desire denotes that something is lacking within you. What is that? Actually no one knows, but to fulfill that unknown your mind plans something, which takes the shape of a desire that is the product of your mind. So the desires differ according to the intellect and need of the individuals. From childhood to old age, everyone desires different things but it remains limited to the five categories of the five senses. The nature of desire is such that if it is fulfilled, immediately greed comes and that fulfillment multiplies the ambition (desire), and if the desire is not fulfilled, feeling of dejection and anger comes which burns the heart. So, in ways, anxiety increases and the desire never end. If, only the sensory pleasures were your real demand, you should have been satisfied after obtaining the sensory objects, but it is not like that. It means that the urge of your inner consciousness is for something else and the finding of your mind is something other.

A child leaves his mother in a fare by mistake. He is crying and hopefully looking into the faces of each and every woman thinking, “she might be my mother”. But, as soon as he finds his real mother, his search and cry stops. Now he is not willing to see the faces of any other woman because he has found his ‘own’, the real one. In the same way, until and unless you will find your real ‘own’, your search for real pleasure will never end. Rushing into material things can only multiply your worries and desire, it cannot lessen them. Thus the question arises, what is our real ‘own’ which we are constantly searching for through our mind with the help of our senses? To reveal this mystery, the Divine theology explains that the soul is a part of the Divine, so naturally it seeks the unity of the Di¬vine. So, the soul will only take rest when it will receive the divine happiness. Again, a question arises: if everyone is searching for Divine happiness, why does he find pleasure in worldly entertainment? Our Scriptures reveal this secret and tell us that, although, soul is the part of the Divine power; the body and the mind are the products of the material power. It is a common rule that two similar substances relate to each other by nature, so the material world attracts the material senses and the Mystery of Desire and the Reality of Worldly Pleasure mind. Actually, the real ‘you’ is not the mind or the body, but the mind and the body are attached to ‘you’ (you means soul). When a person is dead, his body and brain remains as it is but the soul goes out. So, in reality, you are the soul. When you are in the conscious state of life, you feel your mental-ego as your ‘own-self’, so you accept and enjoy the material objects as your own, because the natural attraction between the mind and the matter is there. But the fact is something else. So, the soul (your real own-self) instinctively declares its denial in the form of ‘dissatisfaction’ which you feel every moment in your life.

At the same time your conscious mind strongly asserts that the pleasure is received, although not in full, and to make it full, you continue to run after that. Thus, with every enjoyment and in every stage of sensual enjoyment you feel a dissatisfied pleasure with growing hope of getting more in the next moment. In this way, you hope for a fulfillment in near future but your present is always dissatisfied and unfulfilled.

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Nishchal Singh
Ex-NCM Student