4.02 DESIRE
(from 'Eddies of Life' - by Munindra Misra)
- If you desire to choose something,
Choose but good deeds sincerely;
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- If you desire to control something,
Control your wagging tongue truly;
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- If you desire to count something,
Count your life’s wrongdoings fully;
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- If you desire to do something,
Spread Lord’s sayings earnestly;
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- If you desire to drink something,
Drink the Love Of Devine entirely;
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- If you desire to fight something,
Fight your anger ever diligently;
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- If you desire to give something,
Give to the downtrodden surely;
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- If you desire to grow something,
Grow your knowledge unendingly;
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- If you desire to imbibe something,
Imbibe your parent’s teaching wholly;
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- If you desire to keep something,
Keep the Lord’s knowledge faithfully;
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- If you desire to kill something,
Kill knowledge of righteous enemy;
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- If you desire to know something,
Know the path of the Almighty;
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- If you desire to leave something,
Leave your ego – the hurdle clearly;
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- If you desire to meet something,
Meet people with knowledge openly;
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- If you desire to remove something,
Remove all your bad company;
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- If you desire to run from something,
Run from the devotion’s enemy;
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- If you desire to search something,
Search for good people genuinely;
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- If you desire to see something,
See your wrong doings open-mindedly;
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- If you desire to speak something,
Speak in a manner most softly;
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- If you desire to stop something,
Stop unrestrained desires earnestly;
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- If you desire to take something,
Take the pains of others totally;
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- If you desire to weigh something,
Weigh your shortcoming simply;
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- If you desire to be happy,
Give happiness to others selflessly;
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- If you aspire to the very Divinity,
Relinquish all desires absolutely.
