{"id":71740,"date":"2022-03-01T16:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/courses\/uncategorized\/ceiling-on-desires"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:26:27","slug":"ceiling-on-desires","status":"publish","type":"lp_course","link":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/od\/courses\/group-i\/ceiling-on-desires\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceiling on Desires"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column el_class=&#8221;title-para&#8221;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;title-para&#8221;]\n<h2 class=\"section-title\">Ceiling on Desires<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Desire is defined as, \u201ca longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Desires are like luggage which is a heavy burden in the journey of life<br \/>\nLess luggage more comfort makes travel a pleasure. Therefore, gradually reduce your desires. if you have less luggage, you will be more peaceful -Bhagavan Baba<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Desires tend to mislead us into believing that,<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lessons_ul_en\">\n<li>They will disappear if once fulfilled.<\/li>\n<li>Satisfaction can be gained through their fulfillment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13780 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires2-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires2.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swami insists that both of these beliefs are false:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMen do not realise that as their desires increase, their happiness diminishes. There is no limit to desires. They multiply like ants in an anthill. There is no sense of satisfaction, however much one may possess or enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWho is the poorest man? He who has much desires is the poorest man in the world. Who is the richest man? He who has much satisfaction is the richest man in the world.\u201d -Baba<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a limit for everything in the world. There is a limit to the human body temperature, i.e., 98.4 F. Beyond this limit, one suffers from fever. When blood pressure \/blood sugar levels cross the limit, our health is affected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>When your eyes happen to see a flash of lightning or a flash light while taking photographs, they automatically close because they can&#8217;t withstand such high illumination. Ear drums also cannot tolerate hearing beyond a certain volume and we close our ears or keep cotton inside the ears. From these we see that our life is a limited company!\u00a0Similarly our desires also should be limited. [Divine Discourse &#8211; 1983]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13789 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires3.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ceiling on desires (COD) is essential for healthy and happy life. Unlimited desires lead to sorrow. These act as handicaps to one\u2019s spiritual progress. Limitless desires destroy one\u2019s happiness and health. Reducing the number of desires is the means of achieving COD. If we fry the seed of desires, it won\u2019t sprout again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Epics and Puranas stress the utmost importance of COD. Desire multiplies desires. If a desire is fulfilled, it results in greed. If a desire is not fulfilled, it leads to anger and jealousy. Finally it causes the downfall of human values.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How to eradicate the unlimited and unethical desires? Baba gives the following injunctions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>ABC &#8211; Always Be Careful. Avoid Bad Company.<\/li>\n<li>See no evil, See what is good.<br \/>\nHear no evil, Hear what is good.<br \/>\nTalk no evil, Talk what is good.<br \/>\nThink no evil, Think what is good.<br \/>\nDo no evil, Do what is good.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ceiling on Desires is a tool to help reduce desires by placing limits on the usage of 4 key resources<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Money<\/li>\n<li>Food<\/li>\n<li>Time<\/li>\n<li>Energy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Time, Energy, Money And Food are the resources given to man as gifts. The resources are sacred since these are the embodiment of God.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13804 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires5-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires5-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires5.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"section-subtitle\">1. Time is God. Time wasted is life wasted.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDon\u2019t waste time. Time waste is Life waste. God is exalted as \u2018Kalaya namah, Kalakalaya namah, Kalathithaya namah, Kala swaroopaya namah.\u2019 Spend the time by using sanctifying words. Do not waste time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"source-font\"><em>\u2013 Bhagavan Baba &#8211; Summer Showers 1993<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"section-subtitle\">2. Energy is God<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anger, desires and bad thoughts deplete physical, mental and spiritual energy.<br \/>\n\u201cDon\u2019t waste Energy.\u201d People waste their energy by indulging in bad thoughts, bad looks, bad hearing and bad action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Summer Showers 1993<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"section-subtitle\">3. Money is God<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGod is wealth.\u201d Since God is wealth, misuse of money is evil. Practice charity by gifting away money, food, clothes, houses etc instead of misusing it in extravagance. Misuse of money is not only evil but a sin as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"source-font\"><em>\u2013 Summer Showers 1993<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"section-subtitle\">4. Food is God<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Food wasted by one person can alleviate the hunger of a starving child.<br \/>\n\u201cDon\u2019t waste Food. Food is God.\u201d Your body is made of food and you are the result of the food eaten by the parents. \u2018Anna Brahma\u2019 (Food is God). Mitha thindi, athi hayi.\u2019 Moderate food gives immense ease\u201d says Swami. Eat as much as it is necessary to eat. But do not throw away food by taking too much in your plate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2013 Summer Showers 1993<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13818 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas-s3.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ceiling_on_desires6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Swami Karunyananda :\u201cSwami, You are God incarnate and right now present here bodily. And there, behind the wall, children are fighting with street dogs for picking up mean crumbs of food from the garbage. How come, Swami?\u201d<br \/>\nBhagawan to Swami Karunyananda: They had spent their earlier lives in ease and luxury. They disdainfully ate from tables laden heavily with every kind of rich food, pecking a little from this and a little from that plate. They threw away much more than they ever ate, contemptuously discarding precious food. In this birth, they are picking up what they had earlier so recklessly wasted and consigned to the garbage heap.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economical use of resources, selflessness, sharing and caring and concern for others are the values needed for sustaining COD. Parents, teachers and Bal Vikas Gurus should select suitable moral stories in order to inculcate COD in the mind of children.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column el_class=&#8221;title-para&#8221;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;title-para&#8221;] Ceiling on Desires Desire is defined as, \u201ca longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","course_category":[73,116,102],"course_tag":[],"class_list":["post-71740","lp_course","type-lp_course","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","course_category-group-i","course_category-miscellaneous-year-3-group-1","course_category-year-iii","course"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ceiling on Desires - 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