Desires...

Of six billion people in the world, how many desire freedom? How rare is it? It may not be possible for the earth to produce even one enlightened person in a country. To see an enlightened man we look back 2,535 years. We find this prince who became enlightened, and still every day we repeat his name.

When he woke up he was sleeping with his wife,his queen,and his son. He had a palace, elephants, horses, treasures, armies, and dancing girls. This young man had not seen any suffering in the palace. From where did his desire "I want to be free" arise?

At midnight he woke up. On one side he saw the beauty of the land, his wife; on the other side, his son, the gift of married life. This man woke up in between.

As you hear this, don't exclude yourself, You are Buddha yourself. He was a human. You are a human. He had perhaps more responsibilities than you have. His engagements were tremendous, much more than yours. And he had to find time for this desire for freedom.

After finding the time, this man is now showing us the light. He is not dead. We remember him every day. He lives in the heart of everyone. Who does not know Buddha?. In each country his name is shining. You are Buddha yourself.. Don't underestimate yourself. You have the same light, the same wisdom, the same consciousness, he had.

If you want to postpone, you can go on to the next birth. If you have desires and they are not fulfilled, you have to be reborn into the next womb. If you want to stop it, fulfill all your desires in an instant. If no desires are left, how can you be reborn?

The only way off this circle is to fulfill all your desires in an instant. You've been trying the other way. You fulfill one desire; then another comes. You fulfill it, yet another comes. Ask the kings, the rulers of this world, and you will find they have desires and fears. Ask the businessman. He, too, has desires and fears: he wants more money. The worker, the priest, the soldier—everybody has unfulfilled desires.

The simple way to fulfill your desires is with fire. You need fire to burn the store-house of these desires that you have accumulated in the bag of your memory. Instantly they will be fired by one desire: enlightenment!

In enlightenment, all desires are reduced to ashes. You no longer need to return to any womb. Otherwise, you have to be hitchhiking from place to place, womb to womb.

It doesn't take any time. Just have this one desire. It has to work because this desire can't land on any object. Desires for objects, wanting what you don't have, can take some time. But this desire to know your own true Self can't take you far away for its fulfillment.


Papaji..
Wake Up and Roar
p.129-30
published by
Sounds True
Boulder, CO 80306

This desire will be fulfilled instantly, because the desired object is the subject! It is the subject aspiring to return to subject. Consciousness desires, from within consciousness, to return to consciousness. How much time do you need to return home, while sitting at home?