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awareness that encounters them
this very experience takes you beyond doubt
that is the state of faith, of trust
and that is the beginning of sannyas
desiring includes all desires --
the worldly, the other-worldly
material, the spiritual
the mundane, the sacred
so it is not a question of choosing
either one drops the whole of desiring
or one remains in the grip of it
the so-called religious people
are still in the grip of it
they may not desire money
but they desire meditation
they may not desire power
but they desire god
they may not desire things of the world
but they desire the kingdom of the beyond
it is the same desire
it has come in from the backdoor again
you have to be very watchful
not to allow desire in any form to enter you because
desire is bondage, desire is misery, desire is hell
the more full of desires one is
the more frustrations one is breeding
because each desire will end in frustration
whether it succeeds or fails makes no difference
frustration is bound to happen,
it is inevitable
if the desire fails
and out of one hundred desires
ninety-nine are bound to fail
because it is a competitive world
you are not alone
many people are desiring the same things
there are not enough things and people are many
things are scarce and people are millions
how many people can be presidents
how many people can be prime ministers
very few... but everybody wants to be
hence ninety-nine per cent of desires
are bound to fail, and then
there will be great frustration
one per cent of desires may succeed
but frustration comes all the same
in fact more so
because when a desire succeeds
for the first time you become aware
that you have wasted your whole life for it
and nothing is attained
money is there
but your poverty remains untouched by it
your inner emptiness remains the same
in fact
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