DESIRE CANNOT BE SATISFIED

This worldly existence is dreadful. There is no limit to the consuming power of man's desires and cravings. They are never satisfied. They grow day by day, just as a flame increases by pouring oil onto it.
Discrimination and dispassion are the two master weapons to kill this dire enemy of peace. Cravings take to their heels whenever they hear of dispassion and discrimination, lust as darkness cannot exist in the presence of light, so also desires cannot exist in the presence of discrimination and dispassion. With¬out these two qualities one cannot make substantial spiritual progress.
From "Daily Sayings" by Swami Sivananda (1987-1963). More Informations on Swami Sivananda: on the Website of Divine Life Society, Photographs of Swami Sivananda, German Pages on Swami Sivananda
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