Desire (kama) is the mother of all emotions
by Swami Rama
Exctract from the post Emotions – By Swami Rama
It is kama, the prime desire, that creates turmoil in the lake of life. Kama is the mother of all emotions. Since desire itself is mixed with selfishness, kama does not motivate you to serve others but instead controls your life and makes you self-centered. It builds a boundary around you and isolates you from the whole.
The more you have that desire, kama, the more you contract your personality and are prevented from expanding your level of consciousness. So desire is the prime factor of all motivations, and actions are performed according to the types of your desires. When you want to fulfill a desire you think, come to a conclusion, and then act accordingly. There are a variety of desires-active, passive, positive, negative-in the conscious and unconscious mind, and they come up to the surface and disturb the thinking process. But as it is important to understand the thinking process, it is even more important to understand the emotions which can disturb the thinking process. You can easily understand your inner being by finding out what types of desires you have.
All desires arise from four primitive fountains: self preservation, sleep, food, and sex. As far as these fountains are concerned, human beings and animals are alike. A human being sleeps, takes food, has sex, and is always concerned with self-reservation; so also is the case with animals. The difference is that in the animal kingdom all activities are controlled and governed by nature, whereas human beings have the willpower to regulate and ultimately control these four appetites, and thus they are superior to all other living creatures in the world.
Exctract from the post Emotions
By Swami Rama
The ‘secret’ to a plentiful life, a life of harmony, happiness and contentment is to have a sattvic mind free from desires and ego and to live in every moment in conscious contact with our true Self (Consciousness).
🌺 Peace, Love, Harmony
atmannityanada 