Is being desireless correct?

[Shri Durgaprasad asked: Paadanamaskaaram Swami, it is said that desire is root cause of misery. All philosophers stress on this point. Is being desireless correct? Is not the creation for enjoyment for the souls as much as for God? Is not being desireless leading to a state of stone? At Your lotus feet, Durgaprasad]

Swami replied:- There are two phases called as Pravrutti and Nivrutti. In Pravrutti, you can have justified desires and justified entertainment. In Nivrutti only, all these worldly desires and worldly enjoyments disappear spontaneously (not by force) due to over love towards God resulting in the natural dropout of all the worldly bonds without any exception. In Nivrutti also, the soul has desire for God and enjoyment with God. Hence, there is no stage of absence of desire and enjoyment either in Pravrutti or Nivrutti. The only difference between Pravrutti and Nivrutti is that in Pravrutti, you must have controlled desire and controlled enjoyment so that justice is never hurt. In Nivrutti, the desire and enjoyment with God is in climax because God is the climax and the ultimate goal, who is beyond even justice as God is the protector of justice (Protector is always greater than a protected item.).

The only place in which desire and enjoyment shall be completely controlled is Dushpravrutti because in this place, desire and enjoyment are totally amalgamated with injustice and sin. Only this Dushpravrutti is totally condemned. Hence, the restriction is about Dushpravrutti only and not about Pravrutti and Nivrutti. Justice is neglected in both Dushpravrutti and Nivrutti, but the background is to be carefully analysed. The injustice in Dushpravrutti cannot protect you from the hell whereas the injustice in Nivrutti can’t affect you because God is all in all. Such capacity of God does not exist with injustice existing in Dushpravrutti. Moreover, you must remember that Nivrutti is only optional and not mandatory for any soul. This point makes any soul to shut up its mouth from passing on any comment on God or Nivrutti. Nivrutti is discovered and developed by devotees and not by God. God is not a political soul, which propagates about itself for fame and self-enjoyment. God is the infinite ocean of bliss and all the worldly enjoyments are just tiny drops. Will the ocean crave for drops of desire and enjoyment? The Veda says that God has no desire for any type of enjoyment. When the climax devotee of Nivrutti craves for desire and enjoyment for God, God will come down to the level of devotee and becomes like a drop and gives satisfaction to the devotees because the devotee is in the climax of madness about Himself and all efforts to discourage him/her failed. Such climax devotees are countable on fingers and will not spoil Pravrutti. In Nivrutti, the devotee enters to swim in the only one ocean of bliss of God and except God, there is no second item or second soul. In such a case, there is no question of justice and injustice. Justice and injustice can exist only in this world having multiplicity. God is beyond both justice and injustice.

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