Victory Over Lust

Be vigilant in being aware of your thoughts, feelings and actions at all times. Lust is a slippery thing because the mind will justify its existence in the system. Be careful of the need for fame, the hidden desire to consciously or unconsciously feel special, known, important, privileged, acknowledged, remembered, glorified, right, appreciated, to feel powerful, elevated or better than others. It will eventually lead to your demise. Lust is multi layered, as the senses involve sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. It is a temporary feel good or relief from the dis ease of sadness, loneliness, boredom even feigned cravings. Like the road to perdition, it is first wide and easy and enticing, even intoxicating. But it is the road to long suffering and a disguising trap. Each of the senses can be contaminated by lust with what you see, taste, hear or touch, even imagine about. Food, drinks, sounds, pictures, scenes, thoughts, energetic fields and all forms of accumulations or attachments to things or anything physical and material. It is not our outward behavior always. It is actually happening in the mind that moves the body.

 Lust happens first in unmonitored thoughts. Lust for food, clothing, properties, pleasure, fame, wealth, drinks, relationships, sensations of all kinds. Bliss and eternal joy and newness is our Nature, but the temporary destructive pleasure is a faint and far cry to what is in store for us when we are purified by lust. We want to feel good using external things and people. Let us ask ourselves, why do I want to buy and have all these things I think I need but actually do not. Do I feel bad. Why. Go deep into the source of the disatisfaction in life. The easier and faster thing to do to purify oneself, is seva and sadhana and the constant vigilance and awareness of our thoughts, words and actions. To be very guarded in what we expose our senses to, even subliminally, is crucial especially for the restless minds. There comes a time, when liberation begins to root or awaken in us, and all we see and experience is Divinity and Immortality. But we need to work at where we are. It is futile to do calculus when we are simply re learning the basic operations. We are just revising what we already truly know. Simplicity will remind us how little this body needs. Courage will remind us that we do not need the approval of others to be true to who we really are.