India Reflections

Desirelessness

Our desires are to a great extent the cause of miseries. So we pray to God to bestow upon us the state of desirelessness, or freedom from wishes. It is almost certain that, unless it is achieved, we can never acquire a balanced state of mind. Desirelessness means we stop further formation of samskaras. What remains then is only to undergo the effect of the previous samskaras, which when exhausted lead us to the level of liberation.

Taken from the book "Letters of the Master, Vol. 1", Chapter "1955", pg. 26, by Babuji Maharaj