00:02So while I see currently whatever actions I take in life comes from some desire.
00:07Going to the gym to stay fit, working to be financially independent.
00:10How does one discern what right desire is?
00:12You cannot begin by asking what the right desire is.
00:16You have to start with asking where your bondages are.
00:22You already have the right desire.
00:23The right desire is a desire to be free, to be at ease, to be able to flow.
00:30To be without fear.
00:32It does not disappear.
00:33It gets aligned.
00:35Sir, there is a desire.
00:36But this desire is aligned with a purpose beyond my little self.
00:42No action is right or wrong.
00:45Actions can be very deceptive.
00:47You have to look at the actor.
00:49Where is that action coming from?
00:56The questioner is Anjali.
01:00She is asking Acharya Ji, the Gita talks about Nishkam Karan.
01:06You have also mentioned it briefly today.
01:09So while I see currently whatever actions I take in life comes from some desire.
01:15For example, going to the gym to stay fit, working to be financially independent, studying because one loves the subject and want to achieve greater heights and so forth.
01:24So, how do we really understand this in spirituality?
01:31How does one discern what right desire is in daily context?
01:36You cannot begin by asking what the right desire is.
01:44You have to start with asking where your bondages are.
01:50So, it starts with self-observation, Anjali.
01:55You look at yourself and you find yourself in all kinds of chains and traps.
02:01And then you know what the right desire is.
02:05Once you know where you are chained.
02:12You already have the right desire, the right desire is to break the chain.
02:19But I cannot talk of the right desire without knowing where you are in bondage, in domination, in greed, in fear.
02:36It begins with an observation, an admission of your own state, right?
02:47The right desire is a desire to be free, to be at ease, to be able to flow, to be without fear.
03:01That is right desire.
03:02That is right desire.
03:03But when we say the right desire is about being fearless, first of all, you have to figure out where your fears are.
03:16So, figure them out and then fight them with all that you have.
03:27That is the right desire.
03:29In the right desire, it is not as if the person or the personal motive disappears.
03:47This is very important to understand.
03:50It does not disappear.
03:52It gets aligned.
03:56It gets aligned with something beyond you.
04:03The desire of the person gets aligned with the purpose beyond the person.
04:16Think of a vast battlefield, right?
04:22And you have a large number of soldiers fighting the enemy.
04:28And I am calling it, let's say the Dharmyud, the right battle.
04:33Now, you might be one of those soldiers.
04:40That soldier is probably engaged with just one or two of the enemy soldiers.
04:48How many enemy soldiers are you seeing and engaging?
04:54Maybe just one and two.
04:55And these one or two are right now your personal battle, your personal adversaries.
05:02Are they not?
05:03It's a personal thing.
05:07There is this fellow in front of me and I have to knock him down.
05:10But this personal objective is aligned with a battle beyond the person.
05:25Are you getting?
05:26So, while you are fighting a personal battle seemingly, yet that battle is not really personal.
05:42Because the war has a larger purpose.
05:47Otherwise, you can look at any particular soldier and say, well, you ought to be desireless.
05:55Because Dharmyud is also about being Nishkaam.
06:04So, why are you so charged up about beating your adversary?
06:12You should be desireless.
06:13Why do you have the desire to defeat your enemy?
06:17So, there is a desire.
06:18But this desire is aligned with a purpose beyond my little self.
06:26And this is called surrender.
06:28I have surrendered my desire to a larger objective.
06:33Which does not mean that I no more have any desire.
06:36I have a desire.
06:38But it is an aligned desire.
06:43Like a part of a large machine.
06:49The part does have its individuality.
06:52No?
06:53But the movement of the part is submitted to the overall functioning of the machine.
07:03There is an alignment.
07:05the work that none of the women comes from.
07:06And the other people are going to.
07:07I have to say it.
07:08We have the right word.
07:09And that's the way to live.
07:13That's the way to live.
07:14Your will gets aligned with a larger will.
07:17Not that you do not want to keep yourself fit.
07:19Anjali said, well I go to the gym.
07:20I do this.
07:21Yes, you do go to the gym.
07:24Not that you do not want to keep yourself fit. Anjali said, I go to the gym, I do this.
07:32Yes, you do go to the gym and that makes you fitter as a body, as a person.
07:38But what do you go to the gym for? Why do you want to be fitter?
07:44What do you need a fitter and stronger body for?
07:48If you need a fitter and a stronger body for the right purpose, then these two things have now become aligned.
07:55Yes, I am going to the gym and that is benefiting my body, but then my body is not for my sake.
08:03My body is aligned to something beyond myself.
08:07So even as it may appear that I am benefiting my own little body by going to the gym, the fact is,
08:16that my fitness or strength are in service of a larger purpose.
08:25And that makes me be at a very nice position. You see, I don't have to drop the body.
08:39In fact, I have all the incentive to keep the body strong, fit, agile, but not for myself, not for myself.
08:57So you can have anishkaam karmi yogi in the gym and you can also have a random commoner in the gym.
09:06And they both might appear to be working out with the same intensity.
09:12But never go by actions. Actions?
09:19Actions?
09:24Deluded.
09:27You have to look at what that action is for.
09:31You have to look at the state of the actor.
09:33One of them is building his body so that he looks sexier and attracts attention.
09:44And the other one is building the body so that the body can be used as a better weapon in the right battle.
09:54And they both are training side by side.
10:01Outwardly, when you look at them, you may actually not find much of a difference.
10:06And you will say, look at this one, look at this one, they are doing much the same thing.
10:10They are doing the same thing outwardly.
10:14Outwardly.
10:16Inwardly, they are very different.
10:19One is building the body for her own sake.
10:24The other is building the body to surrender the body to a larger battle.
10:29This alignment.
10:32This alignment is surrender.
10:34Surrender does not mean that you go and dump the body somewhere.
10:37And say, no, I have surrendered my body.
10:41Why should I feed the body?
10:42Why should I clean the body?
10:43Why should I exercise the body?
10:45No.
10:46The body is there.
10:48But now the body does not exist to serve my pretty purposes and my little desires.
10:56I kind of become a trustee of the body.
11:02There is this body and this body is a surrendered thing.
11:09This body is in the service of something far bigger than my ego.
11:19Are you getting it?
11:21No action is right or wrong, which means no action is recommended or prohibited.
11:32Prescribed or proscribed.
11:37Actions can be very deceptive.
11:42Mind you.
11:43You have to look at the actor.
11:49Where is that action coming from?
11:51Human history is replete with instances where great people
11:58were ostracized and calumniized just because we looked at their deeds.
12:09And we didn't have the eyes to look into the door.
12:13And equally history is full of instances where very ordinary people,
12:19evil people were felicitated, fitted and even worshipped because they demonstrated the right kind of actions.
12:34a man with a lot of money can be a selfless one if that money is for a purpose.
12:50And even a beggar can be evil if he is begging just for his own sake.
13:02Tomorrow I will beg again and feed the stomach and that's all.
13:06But you can make a lot of money.
13:11Yes I agree with my friends.
13:12So the business in the הצ, that is a very Boulder goal,
13:13the other way to come and provide a good job to help people,
13:16you know?
13:17In His 제일
13:18Cannabis, the other way to go,
13:20you know?
13:21It's a great way to put yourself in your mind.
13:22And hopefully this is a great way to make you.
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