What Are Desires?
Desires are your tendencies to feel complete by getting, owning, or consuming something. Consumption may take any form—it can be physical, mental, or even energetic. Whatever the mode of consumption, at the core of this pattern lies a single seed: your desire to have that something.
When you are born as a human being, you are born as a unit composed of body, mind, and spirit. The body comes from your parents in this birth. But the mind and the spirit are not new. They are the carriers of your previous births. The mind you carry now, the causal body, is born with many unfulfilled desires from your earlier existences. This is why you have taken birth in this form: so that, with the unique opportunity of being human, you may fulfill those unfulfilled desires and be free of them.
The Birth of Desire in the Mind
The birth of desire originates in the birth of the mind itself. With human evolution, you have no control over your desires until you become aware of them. A desire arises first as a thought in your mind. That thought shows you a need, a want, or a craving, telling you that only by obtaining it will you feel complete.
Not all desires arise at once. The mind generates desires continuously, one after another. As soon as one desire is consumed or fulfilled, the mind throws up the next. This cycle of wanting, chasing, and consuming never ends by itself.
The Types of Desires
What kinds of desires does the human mind generate? Generally, desires fall into three categories:
- Physical Desires – The wants of the body for comfort, pleasure, food, possessions, and security.
- Egoic or Mental Desires – The wants of the ego for recognition, comparison, superiority, and power.
- Emotional Desires – The wants of the heart for love, attention, validation, and belonging.
All these desires arise from a single root: the feeling of incompleteness. This sense of lack is not the truth of your being; it is a trick of the mind. It is born from beliefs that you are inferior, not enough, or lacking compared to someone else or to an imagined state.
Is There an End to Desires?
Yes, there is an end. But simply knowing this answer is not the same as being free.
The mind in human beings is unique. Other species on this planet do not carry such a developed mental faculty. With this special gift of mind also comes a special trap: desires. Most desires are unconscious. They are created without any clarity or sense. Even when fulfilled, they leave no true satisfaction.
If a desire were based on reality, on something factual and essential, then after fulfilling it you should feel satisfied and complete. But since most desires are baseless and imaginary, even when fulfilled, they do not make you happy. Fulfillment of desires does not equal happiness.
Working on the Mind
The path to freedom from desires begins with working on your mind.
First, you must educate your mind about the difference between needs and wants. Needs are essential for your survival and flourishing—health, wealth, and relationships. Wants, on the other hand, are creations of the mind to cover up its feeling of incompleteness.
Prioritize your needs. Direct your time, money, and energy first toward your health, your stability in wealth, and your relationships. When these are cared for in a balanced way, something profound happens: your wants start losing their grip. Slowly, the unnecessary desires fade away.
Living Fully With Needs Fulfilled
When you live your life by fulfilling your true needs, your energetic consumption is satisfied. Your spirit does not depend on external, materialistic consumption.
What your energy longs for is not another object, not another person, not another achievement. Your energy longs for a state of mind where you can experience peace, joy, and love unconditionally—without depending on anything outside you.
When you begin to live with the mindset that you already have enough, a shift occurs. You realize that within your current financial status, relationship status, and present health, you can already enjoy life deeply. You start to participate in life as a child participates—happy without any reason. In that state, a smile comes naturally, effortlessly.
The Mirror Test
Stand before a mirror and look into your own eyes. Can you smile naturally, without any effort, without a reason? If not, then all the material investments, possessions, and achievements you have gathered are meaningless.
Without that natural smile, all you have is a mind that is still begging.
The Beggar Mentality of the Mind
The mind, when bound by desires, is like a beggar. A beggar never stops asking. There is no end to his requests. He begs and begs, but he is never satisfied.
Likewise, when you identify with your mind, you inherit this beggar mentality. Even when you receive love, you want more love, more attention, more validation, more presence of others. Yet you may not contribute equally to the lives of others. This is not love—it is begging.
Observe yourself. The next time a desire pops up, watch the feeling it creates. You will notice that desires make you powerless. They whisper, you are not enough; you do not have enough. But the moment you drop the desire, something miraculous happens: you feel complete, abundant, and powerful.
The Higher Energies
When desires drop, your energies rise into higher states: love, joy, happiness, peace, gratitude, compassion. In these states, you appreciate whatever you already have. You forget to complain about things or situations. Life feels whole, not lacking.
No Definite Formula, But a Path
There is no fixed formula, no single technique that ends all desires forever. But there is a path. You can learn to distinguish between desires that must be fulfilled to complete your karmas and desires that are baseless and can be dropped.
This path requires awareness. You must learn to recognize which desires are necessary stepping stones in your growth and which are distractions that enslave your energy.
The Inner GPS
The secret lies in tapping your inner GPS. This inner guidance system always speaks within you. It knows which desires need fulfillment and which can be abandoned.
By listening to it, you will understand:
- Which desires are to be completed right now.
- Which desires can be dropped entirely.
- Which desires can be postponed to a later stage of life.
This art of discernment is not taught in schools or books. It is an inner knowing that can be cultivated.
The Practice of Freedom
To walk this path, you must learn to monitor your progress. Each time a desire arises, bring awareness to it. Ask yourself:
- Is this desire born from need or want?
- Will fulfilling it complete a karmic cycle, or will it create more cycles of lack?
- Does it empower me, or does it make me a beggar?
Over time, with guidance and conscious practice, you will feel freedom from present desires. You will also gain the capacity to handle future desires as they arise, meeting each stage of life with wisdom rather than compulsion.
My Personal Experience
From my own life I can share this truth: desires make you powerless. They pull you into the illusion that you are not enough. But in every moment when I have dropped desire, I have felt complete.
The moment desire dissolves, there is abundance. You shift instantly into higher energies. Life blossoms with love, joy, peace, and gratitude. You begin to appreciate, not complain.
This freedom is available to everyone. It is not an extraordinary state reserved for saints or sages. It is your natural state, hidden beneath the clutter of desires.
