Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 15
A man has three desires—desire for pleasures, eagerness for enlightenment (Self-realization) and a yearning for love. The desire for pleasure is related with the body, eagerness for enlightenment is related with the Self and the yearning for love is related with God. It is an error to assume the body as one's own because the body is a fragment of `prakrti'. Therefore desire for pleasure is not of the Self; but the assumption that it is of the Self, is an error. But eagemess for enlightenment and yearning for love, are one's own, there is no error in it. Therefore by applying the body in the service of the family, the society and the world in a disinterested manner, or by intensifying the eagerness for enlightenment, this error is rectified. With the rectification of this error, the desire for pleasure is wiped out. With the destruction of the desire for pleasure, the eagerness for enlightenment is satisfied and the striver realizes the Self viz., he attains enlightenment and he becomes a liberated soul. Then in a man (the Self) who is a fragment of God, the yearning to love God is intensified. All beings are fragments of God, therefore their final aim is to love God. Yearning for love is the universal yearning. Having attained love, human life becomes perfect and then nothing remains to be done, to be known and to be attained.
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