Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Desirelessness - Disappearance of will

The essence of all religions is the annihilation of desire, along with which comes, of a certainty, the annihilation of the will as well, for desire is only the name of a particular mode of the will. … ...

… what we call will is an inferior modification of something higher. Desirelessness means the disappearance of the inferior modification in the form of will and the appearance of that superior state. 

That state is beyond the range of mind and intellect. 

            - Swami Vivekananda, 
                in a Letter to Mrinalini Bose 
                 from Deoghar (January 1899)

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