Dadashri: The things in the world are limited, but the desires of human beings are endless, are infinite. If you make a note of all the desires human beings of the world possess and a note of all the wealth in this world, will you be able to match them?

Questioner: What should I do to fulfil my desires?
Dadashri: The nature of the mind is such that it will always look for something new. It will look for a new sofa for a house; it will look for a new apartment, etc. A person starts talking about a new flat when he is healthy, if his health is not good, he will say: “I do not want the flat anymore.” Then for his health to improve, he will make some kind of religious pledge. The mind will jump around like a monkey and that too without a tail! Nature says: “Accept what I give you, and consider it vyavasthit. I will slowly fulfil all your desires at my convenience before you die.”

When your desire for something dies, the object of your desire will come to you of its own accord. One man had a desire to get married right up until the age of 55. He would tell people to find him a bride. And then, when he turned 58, someone came to him and said: “I have a daughter if you want to get married.” So, the man said: “No, my desire is now dead.”

What is the point of buying diamond earrings for a 75-year-old lady? But the laws of nature are different. The laws that carry one into a higher life-form are different from the laws that drag one down to a lower life-form. Nevertheless, everyone’s desires will be fulfilled for sure. The law of nature is such that if one desires something, and the desire is immediately fulfilled, one is slipping down into a lower life-form. And if you have a desire for something, and you do not get it, but when you do get it, you no longer desire it, it will transport you to a higher life-form. That is a good thing.

Questioner: Some people’s desires are fulfilled the very moment the desires occur. What would you call that?
Dadashri: When a person’s desires are fulfilled immediately, he becomes so full of himself (intoxicated with ego) that he cloys himself to the point of death and heads for a lower life-form. Once a mind finds a place to jump around, it will keep on jumping because the nature of the mind is such. This is Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle characterised by a lack of unity in mind, speech and body), and so the fulfilment of desire increases a person’s ego, and the ‘wagon’ goes the wrong way (crazed ego). Therefore, it is better to stumble and fall in this time cycle. Desires are fulfilled because of merit karmas (punya). People create all kinds of tumult because their desires get fulfilled. They squander their merit karma (punya), and that gives rise to all these entanglements. Isn’t that all because of the mad ego? Therefore, in this age, this tripping and stumbling to acquire the higher state is more beneficial to you.

How wonderful Nature’s arrangement is! For those who are to go to a higher life-form, Nature arranges everything according to their desires, but only after their desires die. And those who are to go to a lower life-form, Nature arranges it so that their desires are immediately fulfilled. Therefore, understand this fact about Nature.

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