DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

DESIRES

12 June 1929

Baba then discoursed about desires:

Desires are harmful both ways, when fulfilled and when not fulfilled. For instance, a person has a desire for sex. Overcome with intense longing, he has relations with someone of the opposite sex and fulfills his desire. What then? After the action, one is dejected. Why when one's desire has been fulfilled? It seems so strange, but there is nothing strange about it. For that is the eventual result of expression of his desire which brings on disappointment and dejection.

Once a desire is fulfilled, there is another desire that arises ready to be satisfied. When that desire is satisfied, another is there and so on. It is not easy to escape the clutches of one's desires. Only Perfect Masters can destroy the desires of their devotees, disciples and those on whom their grace descends.