Spiritual Quotes On desire

Maya (ignorance of One's Real form as the Self) is the one that makes you take birth, maya is the one who makes you get married, and maya is also the one who makes you die. However, the only condition here is that the 'reign' is not of maya. The 'reign' is yours. It cannot happen without you desiring it. Whatever you signed off on in the past life, is what maya is giving as an effect in this life.

If you desire liberation, then for the course of one lifetime, even if your body is cut into pieces, still accept it. The moment the firm resolve takes place that, ‘Even if this body is chopped into pieces, I will still not stray away from the path of moksha (liberation),’ from that very point, never-ending bliss will arise within. See what happens after letting this body go with the flow for one lifetime.

The Self is the only thing that is worth knowing. Nothing else in this world is worth knowing. The other things which you have known are all relative and they are destructible. If you have a desire for worldly happiness, then you have to know the destructible [relative] religion.