When your heart is filled with desires, and they become very hard, there won't be any love flowing in it. When the desires in your heart melt, love dawns and dominates in life.

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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 21🌿

          ~ Letting Go Of Worries ~

                  🌱 Day - 120 🌱

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Ashtavakra says that it is a different type of joy. Be happy, peacefully; with melted desires and ambitions. तया हीनः सुखी शान्तः सर्वत्र गलितस्पृहः । A person who is very ambitious is not committed. He becomes an opportunist. He is not committed; not focused. He's not living in love. Opportunism or ambition is the other side, the other end of love. A very opportunistic or ambitious person cannot be in love or love anybody. He cannot give. He cannot be without fear. He cannot be peaceful, because he is always thinking about himself. There is no trust in an ambitious person. A person who is an opportunist, who has a lot of ambition, knows that he does not have trust in himself, or trust in the Divine. He thinks that his desires and wants are bigger than himself. What is bigger, you or your desire? Ignorance is thinking that your desire is bigger than you. But, you are much bigger, because you are the source of several thousand desires. All desires arise in you and get fulfilled in you. Even if they are fulfilled, it leaves you untouched.

You still remain bigger than that, because you are the very source of joy. Everything has come from you; and you are so sad, if one desire is not fulfilled. That is why I say - 'So what?' You'll get many more such desires, bigger desires! Joy doesn't come by the fulfillment of some little desire here and there. Joy is your very existence. And you will remain very small when you hang on to a little desire here and there. Your heart freezes when your desires become hard, like ice blocks, inside you. When your heart is filled with desires, and they become very hard, there won't be any love flowing in it. When the desires in your heart melt, love dawns and dominates in life.

There is a harshness in you. This harshness is there because you're unaware of the security that has been given to you. You are unaware of the love that is being given to you by God and by Nature. There is some very fragile and delicate aspect deep inside you. Each and every one of you is very fragile and delicate in your deepest center. But you are not in touch with that. When a desire arises, the body gets stiff, the mind gets stiff, the heart gets stiff, and emotions get stiff. If the desire does not get fulfilled, anger follows it. Anger cannot arise by itself. It arises when desires get curdled - just like buttermilk or yogurt is formed when milk gets curdled.

Ashtavakra did not say not to desire, because that is out of our control. Desires arise in you as a natural phenomenon. When they arise, don't make them stick to you; just let them go. Let them evaporate and leave you. The right desires will get fulfilled. And if the desires are not congenital to your growth or evolution, they'll simply dissolve and disappear.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA

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