Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Deserve or Desire?

Today was day with a lot of new experiences in my life. I surprised myself with the kind of courage I never knew i possess.
But, by the end of the day, the courage, conversations and experiences (or learning) lead me to delve with one single question: What is more important? To accept what we Deserve, or to overlook the "Deserve" and choose the Desire?

As with anyone from my world will do, i too did some Google-ing on it. Here's what i found which resonates to my thinking. As I am really bad in putting what goes in my head into words, I will be using the excerpts from this website:
In Katha Upanishad Lord Yama tells little Nachiketa that Preya (Desire) and Shreya (Deserve) approaches a person at every step in life as split roads and he consciously or unconsciously chooses either Preya or Shreya. 
Preya gives immediate pleasure, enjoyment, and satisfaction and usually provides what it promises. But the problem is that it does not and will not last long. Hence Preya lives only for the day or for the moment. Shreya, on the other hand may sometimes be horrid at the beginning but will be of great help at the end

Its been more than a year that I have been doing meditation and following Mahavtar Babaji.
I know and see that he mostly talks to me in the form of signs. I have complete faith in him and have left the most important decisions of my life onto him.
At every step of life, even if I don't like it at first, I have been shown signs or path by Babaji and I took them without questioning. Why? Because, that's what I Deserve, even though I don't Desire to walk on the paths or follow those signs.
Hmm... I wish more people can make out the difference and understand the signs and make the decision more consciously.

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