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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

How Do I Deal With Desire? - Sadhguru

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru Official

Life Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Religion, How To, Science, Health & Fitness, Hinduism, Education, Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Sadhguru explains that desire is not the source of misery but rather unfulfilled desire is. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It is well known that desire is the cause of all sorrows and tension.

0:14.3

But being a wife and a mother, being a wife and a mother, I can't get rid of these desires.

0:23.6

I seek your valuable advice in this regard. Thank you.

0:31.5

No.

0:37.4

It's not because you're a wife, an intern, a mother, that your desires have come.

0:45.2

If you were nobody's wife, you were, probably you were desiring.

0:48.8

And when you were nobody's wife, you were desiring to be somebody's wife.

0:53.9

Now that you're somebody's wife, you desire to have a child and become a mother.

0:59.3

Now that you have a child, now you're saying, it is these two entities which is making me desire.

1:05.0

It is not true.

1:07.1

If you were nobody's nothing, even then your desire would still burn within you.

1:13.7

Is that so?

1:14.7

Yes or no?

1:18.6

If you're nothing to nobody in the world, still your desire would burn, isn't it?

1:23.4

So please don't think your desires are because of your child or your husband or your family

1:28.2

or whatever.

1:29.7

Any way you would desire because that's your nature.

1:34.0

Now you made a statement in the question that desire is the source of all misery.

1:44.0

Desire is not the source of all misery, unfulfilled desire is the source of all misery.

1:52.2

Isn't it so?

1:57.8

Desires fulfilled are the source of your joy, unfulfilled desires is the source of your misery.

2:07.0

Now what to do with the desire?

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