On getting rid of intense desire
Sri Vasista
When Punya exhorted Pavana in words of enlightenment, Pavana received the light of knowledge like earth which receives the early morning light of sun.
-3 Then both of them moved about in the forest, having accomplished the goal of liberation. In course of time they attained Nirvana.
O sinless one, thus for any being there are immumerable relatives and friends across the many births that he goes through. Who is to be rejected or accepted among them?
O son of Raghu dynasty, thus the best way is to somehow get rid of the infinite number of cravings and avidities and not to preserve and protect them.
Anxiety (and anxious thinking) increases anxiety like fuel which increases the lord of fire. When fuel is withdrawn from fire, fire subsides. Likewise by not having anxiety, anxiety can be totally annihilated.
By renouncing 'dheya vasana' (the tendency to reflect on everything) move around and act in this world with compassion.
O Rama of mighty arms, such is Brahmic state, the pure state of desireless action. When one attains this state, even a stupid (in wordly conduct) will never again be deluded.
When one moves around in the world in the company of friend called 'viveka' and beloved called rich understanding, he will never be confused or perplexed even in great distress and affliction.
Nothing can pull a person out of distress like one's own courage. Even giving up all of one's riches and relatives can not relieve one of distress as one's own courage and firmness can.
One should break the back of calamities through detachment, study of scriptures and great qualities. The effort should be by oneself with the head high.
The fruits that can be gained by an enlightened and chastened mind can not be gained even by all riches in all the three words and caskets of gems and diamonds.
Mind of a person dips into a state of feverishness due to the shaking and trembling that one undergoes in the belly of the world.
For one who is of an integrated and perfect mind, the entire world looks like a nectar-filled object. For one who wears a shoe, the entire earth appears to be skin - clad.
A mind that does not admit desire becomes perfect with dispassion and detachment. Mind becomes poor and void when desires enter, like a dry lake during autumn.
Heart becomes a void revealing a hole when it is seized by desires. It becomes like a sea with all the water emptied by Agastya.
The garden of heart will shine bright and look charming when the monkey of craving does not jump about the tree of mind.
To knowers of Truth, whose minds are desire free the world appears to be of the size of a cow's foot. An aeon of time feels like half a minute.
-20 . The coolness of a desire - free mind cannot be felt even in a Himalayan cave or a moon bean. The charm and grace visible in the face of a desire-free mind can not be seen even in full moon.
Desire pollutes the mind. It is like moon covered by a cloud.
-24 . The deisre - shaped branches of the tree of mind stretch far into the quarters. It they are cut, the tree will acquire the shape of Brahman. Then what little courage there is in a person will enlarge hundred-fold. With such courage, the mind will decline and the person will achieve Brahmanhood which is imperishable.
If one has a pure heart and does not yield place to any mental movements, then there will not be any fear of repeated births.
When mind is devoid of any thought movements, a person arrives at the state of 'no-mind'. Then one can attain liberation.
O Rama, when the owl of craving shapes and disturbs your mind, only misery and unhappiness will be your lot.
Thinking (reflection) is called a movement of mind. This movement is driven by desire. Such a desire - driven movement should be stopped. And thus become free of mind.
Whatever is associated with a movement will be annihilated by the cessation of that movement. And so for quietening the mind, one should stop all mind- movements.
O high-souled one, cease all desires and become free of mind. It is only the desires that bind one like chains and ropes. Without shaking them off, one can never be liberated.
