In 8th standard, under the history course syllabus I crammed a question which was about the "teachings of lord budha". The answer was so very well crammed that i still remember it.
It goes as:
"There is suffering in the world. The suffering has a cause. The cause is the DESIRE. To end the suffering, one must end the Desire."
As this crammed answer just striked me some days back, though i don't know how out of blue....I realised the actual meaning of what this answer conveyed.
Desire means : The feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state or An inclination to want things.
Yes indeed, most of the problems what we all face up, comes due to some intended/unintended desires. Desire to succeed, Desire to be loved the way we love others, Desire to have a happy and contended life and the list goes endless.
Desires may come w.r.t a situation, career, a person and i feel could be in context of everything and anything that we 'humans' intend to have in our lives. The mad race to achieve those desires goes so wild that we forget what life is made up of - small gestures of love, care, enjoyment.
We forget what beauty the spring brings, what relief rain shower brings, with what melody the birds sing.
But not achieving something desired should not end up in we loosing the true essence of life and thus invite depression ( or any sort of suffering) into our lives.
To desire is human nature but then not having everything that one desires is God's own way to make us realise that one cannot have everything in life!
And I think its an irony that all of us know that desires may hurt if not completed ;)
But then if we would have been able to end up all desires, may be we could have never felt how does it feels to have recieved what was desired out of someone, some situation or some prayer. Everything would have been so very dynamic and without any thoughts/wish. Desires are important till the time we dont end up forgetting what life is made of.
So, though I feel what Lord Budha taught is absolutely - The Truth, but still having desires is a way to realise and watch "Dreams realising into reality!"
