Question: Something happens and then suddenly a desire related to that arises in me, what should I do?’
Acharya Prashant: Just know that your desire is actually just external stimulus; external stimulus that activates your conditional patterns, which means that you have very little right to call your desire as really your own.
Desire can be provoked in you, and every advertiser knows that.
The world is a great advertisement. This entire world is a hoarding: come and buy!
Its only purpose is to provoke desire in you. And once you have known this, you do not take your desires too seriously. If it arises, then you know that something has happened in the environment to arouse its desire in you. You say, “Without an environmental factor desire couldn’t have come up, and if it is the environment that is inducing desire in me, then how is it my obligation to fulfil that desire.”
You clearly see that you are being taken for a ride, that you are being exploited.
Listener 1: Sir, can it be so that we are destined to desire?
