I’ve often reflected on the role of desires in our lives. We all carry them. Some small, some big and some that stay in our hearts for years. But here’s something I’ve come to understand: not all desires are planted in us to be fulfilled.
Some desires are simply there to help you see that you don’t need any desires to fulfill you. When this realization awakens in you, you touch a state of eternal anand – you are eternally fulfilled.
In my own journey, I’ve asked my teachers from the higher realms about this. One of the most loving presences guiding me has been Anandmayi Maa. Through her grace, I’ve received answers that continue to deepen my understanding.
She once shared that desires are the way Prakriti, or nature, keeps the play of life moving. Desires are part of the Khela, the ongoing play of reality. Some desires get fulfilled when they are meant to keep you engaged with the flow of karma. Others remain unfulfilled because their purpose is different – they are there to push you into self-enquiry.
When you pause and reflect on an unfulfilled desire, it can lead you toward liberation. It reminds you that we are already complete beings. Over time, as these reflections deepen, you realize that no desire can give you what you already hold within.
At that point, desires no longer arise to complete you. They arise only to be experienced, to move through you as expressions of the Divine. You become a vessel for the divine desires to flow through you.
So if you carry a desire that hasn’t been fulfilled, don’t see it as a lack. It may be the very thing that nudges you closer to the truth of who you are – whole, free, and already complete.
Hare Hare.