When unhealthy desires from our past habits keep troubling us what can we do?

So, when we have the desires to leave and same we are trying to share with others also. So, well, I think it’s fair enough. There are two ways of looking at desires.

One is the moral way, the other is the clinical way. Moral way is what? That, you know, oh, I am such a sinful person, I am such a terrible person, I have this kind of desires. The clinical way is that the mind is like a machine.

And that machine, it’s like a, it’s diseased right now. There is some disease in it because of which the residual effects of the diseases, some desires are coming and they will keep coming. So, but the disease can be cured.

So, suppose there has been a pandemic and then we have found a treatment which has helped us. We partly, we are still sick, but we are not as sick as others. And we try to share the medicine that has helped us with others.

Now, we are still sick, but we are helping others. Is that hypocrisy? That’s not hypocrisy. That’s basically, yeah, to whatever extent this has worked for me, I am sharing with others.

So, it’s good to be authentic in the sense that don’t claim that we are pure devotees. Don’t claim that I am free from all desires. Say that, you know, I have also had many kinds of desires.

Some of the desires were more destructive than others. And these practices have helped me to find a higher happiness. It’s at least brought my destructive desires under control.

So, if we share with honesty and humility, then that can, that connects with people. And we keep doing those services. Then gradually new impressions are being formed in the mind and new desires will get activated by those impressions.

So, now the past desires that we have, how long will it take for them to go away? It depends. It depends on how deep rooted they are. Sometimes if a desire is coming repeatedly, we can write down.

This is a desire and these are the reasons why I feel I should do those things. And these are the reasons why I don’t want to do those things. So, what happens is, the desires come from the mind and when the mind gets purified, the desires won’t come at all.

But till the mind gets purified, we need our intelligence to combat with the mind. And when the mind has become very strong, at that time it’s very difficult to activate the intelligence immediately. So, at those times we need to have resources prepared by our intelligence previously available for us.

So, if you have, may be identify 3-4 typical desires that keep troubling you, then you confront that desire. This is why I want to do this, this is why I don’t want to do this. Why you don’t want to do this, write it down carefully.

So, you will have those reasons. And then this is why I want to do this, you respond to that. Okay, but is this really true? Okay, pursuing this desire will make me happy.

Will it really make me happy? I pursued so many desires in the past. So, basically write your answers to those things and keep that with you. So, that way rather than requiring your intelligence to become activated at that time to combat that desire, you have equipped your intelligence already and then it’s like a soldier is out on the field and the enemy attacks.

And the soldier cannot say, hey, wait, wait, I have not brought my weapon. Let me go to the weapon. Let me get the weapon back, then I will fight with you.

The soldier has to be carrying the weapon with him. So, like that the wisdom in the books is like the weapons in the barracks, the weapons in the godown or the storehouse wherever. The wisdom that we have prepared and customized that we can readily use.

That is like the weapons on our body, in our pockets, in our belt, wherever. So, we need to have weapons like that with us, which we can utilize. And we just keep doing that until eventually…