II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

आसा तृस्ना सिंधू गति, तहां न मन ठहराय I
जो कोइ आसा में फंसा, लहर तमाचा खाय II

If we look at our lives, we have a million desires, many of them contradictory to each other. All of these million desires drive our thoughts, words, and actions at different points of time and with different intensities. And our character is nothing but an accumulation of all our past thoughts, words, and actions, or in other words, our desires. Thus, we are what we desire.
It is natural for human beings to have desires. However, as the uncontrol fire can cause tremendous devastation, similarly, the uncontrolled desires can cause havoc in an individual’s life.

"Kabir says, Desires are waves of the vast sea and man is caught and tossed about by them since time immemorial.
Desire by engrossing and possessing him makes him incapable of any discrimination and gives him the impression that it is part of his nature to manifest it. In reality, it has nothing to do with his true nature. It is the same with all the lower impulses, jealousy or envy, hatred or violence. These too are movements that seize you, waves that overwhelm and invade; they deform, they do not belong to the true character or the true nature; they are no intrinsic or inseparable part of yourself, but come out of the sea of surrounding obscurity in which move the forces of the lower nature. These desires, these passions have no personality, there is nothing in them or their action that is peculiar to you; they manifest in the same way in everyone. The obscure movements of the mind too, the doubts and errors and difficulties that cloud the personality and diminish its expansion and fulfilment, come from the same source. They are passing waves and they catch anyone who is ready to be caught and utilised as their blind instrument. And yet each goes on believing that these movements are part of himself and a precious product of his own free personality."

II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II
II श्रीसद्गुरूचरणार्पणमस्तु II