The State of No-Desires

You will find it difficult to hold Rs.10,000 in the denomination of one rupee. Exchange this for a bundle of Rs.100 notes. You will feel lighter. If you exchange that for a demand draft, you will feel that much safer.

The day you don’t require this too, tear it away, like how Ramana Maharishi tore the receipt for pawning his earrings (he had pawned them for meeting the cost of his travel to Thiruvannamalai, the Abode of Lord Arunachala). Travel light, travel easy.

Similarly, drop one by one the numerous desires that blur your way forward. Gradually, you will hold on to just one ‘demand draft’: the desire for God. Finally, when you do not need to have this desire anymore, since you have risen above petty desires, you will attain salvation.

When your interest is for attaining divinity and everything else loses its significance, you will attain God.