Satiation
The spiritual way of life has always preached an ideology and propagated a lifestyle that is full of selflessness and benevolence. Every single time that God has walked this wretched world, through his own actions he has preached and taught this message of sacrifice and love for all of humanity. Indeed it brings us to a point where we realize that love is indeed nothing but sacrifice. It is only when you can truly go beyond yourself and sacrifice your own pleasures for the greater good of others; is when you can say that you have learnt how to love; it is only then that you can truly realize what it is to love.
However this fact in itself brings about a strange paradox to life. How can I go beyond my own desires and work for those around me? How can I truly surpass my instincts when all they teach me is to self-indulge? How can I truly be spiritual when I know that within my own self there exists a great void; that there exist multiple unsatiated desires that demand consummation? Well the questions are endless and the answers are few.
To truly understand this riddle and to go beyond it requires a great deal of spiritual understanding and acceptance. The seeker needs to understand that he can never truly go beyond his own self unless he completely satiates the ‘self’; the self in this aspect is truly like a foreign entity that resides within the seeker and desires all the varied illusions of this mortal world. Every seeker has desires; that is inherently why he is called a seeker; once he goes beyond those desires, or once he has satiated those desires, he no longer remains a seeker; he becomes a guru; for no desires can touch him, he is already beyond them. Such a person can indeed work wonders in this world.
But how to become that person, is the question that lingers at the back of all our mind. How to be that person when you know deep down that within yourself is a plethora of desires, all begging to be satiated. Desire by its very nature is an unending void; one desire leads to another and so forth. This cycle goes on till the point that the seeker himself is utterly spent in seeking and all he gets in his hands is nothing-ness. Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
But then how can a man be truly spiritual? His desires wont depart by quenching them, and laden with desires, he can never even hope to become loving and benevolent. Well the answer to that question is that you can never do one thing. A wise seeker always acknowledges the fact that his desires are his weaknesses but he also knows that unless and until they are quenched, he cannot move ahead. Spirituality gives him the understanding which brings him to the realization that “Yes! This is it. This is what I want, and this is where my desires end”. Beyond that, the seeker has naught to be afraid of. He can indeed reap the best of both the spiritual and mundane worlds; he can relish in his own desires, provided they are finite and going forth, he can indeed be selfless and benevolent to the world, working for a cause that is for its greater good.
Such a life is truly a blessed one. For this balance is something that is inexplicably hard to achieve. One who achieves it is indeed blessed by the great Guru and God himself.
Love,
Aj
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Image Credits: Satiation by Podlog Pipkasky.
March 31, 2011 5:15 am 
