A visitor said: “One must become satiate with the fulfillment of desires before they are renounced.” Sri Bhagavan RAMANA MAHARISHI smiled and cut in: “Fire might as well be put out by pouring spirit over the flames. (All laugh). The more the desires are fulfilled, the deeper grows the samskara. They must become weaker before they cease to assert themselves. That weakness is brought about by restraining oneself and not by losing oneself in desires. D.: How can they be rendered weaker? M.: By knowledge. You know that you are not the mind. The desires are in the mind. Such knowledge helps one to control them. D.: But they are not controlled in our practical lives. M.: Every time you attempt satisfaction of a desire the knowledge comes that it is better to desist. Repeated reminders of this kind will in due course weaken the desires. What is your true nature? How can you ever forget it? Waking, dream and sleep are mere phases of the mind. They are not of the Self. You are the witness of these states. BHAGAWAN RAMANA MAHARISHI
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