Can you control your desire?

Human beings have many desires in their lives. Most of the time, they cling to their desires and ensure to achieve the same. There is nothing wrong in the said approach. Only thing, it is utmost important to fulfill the said desires within the norms of social stipulations and practicalities. But if your fulfillment or accomplishment of the said endeavor gets materialized  without any attachment to the end result and devote all the credits of your accomplishments to the Creator, then your enjoyment for the particular success will be increased multifold.  This is a  high level of perception, but it is true.  Without His blessing or mercy, you cannot achieve any result.

You have to concentrate fully to perform any work  to the extent that you  complete the same with perfection without bothering whether the result will be achieved or not. That means  the job is to be done with knowledge and skill, but without any attachment to the end result. The question here comes; can you perform any job without attachment?  No, you cannot. You have to devote your focus and attention to discharge your responsibilities to the best of your abilities.  When you don’t expect any fruits of your struggle and always remember Him in your struggle or accomplishment of any particular job, automatically the results of your efforts will accrue maximum benefits.

When you  involve yourself with any job, but if that's too with full awareness of Him, then you are attached, but detached from the result.  At the same time, you have to apply hundred percent concentration to a job, otherwise you cannot perform fully.  We mostly misconstrue this word of attachment. Attached is a subjective proposition, a feeling of wholeness, but it should not be a binding force.  For example, you are an artist, your duty is to create an art and you must attach fully in the creation without expectation whether the said creation will be the world class or not. 

It is said that attachment to any work with an aspiration to get a hundred per cent result is a fallacy. You only have to focus to the proper completion of any action or effort, but your latent inclination shouldn't be a binding to the end result. Otherwise, that action or effort cannot bloom in fullness, that action is termed as detached one.  It cannot be offered to the Lord, because that detached action cannot have life put into it.  The attachment must be a hundred percent, but your self and soul should be detached from the fruit, it will automatically come to you because you have put your best efforts under His guidance.

When you perform a work, fulfill an action and give full focus to discharge the same, you are lost in the action and as a performer, you become one with the desired goal, then you forget your individuality and forego your own self; this ultimately becomes  truth through your power of meditation.

When you start any job or work, you confront with many probabilities, conflicts, concerns for its accomplishment and also the anxiety  for the right or the wrong output in terms of result, and then your attachment to the work are dominating your consciousness.  Your focus is on the result only, you are not associated with the wholeness of the work. But if the   said dominance when clubbed with detachment, you will be able to easily overcome the odd feelings of  worldly attachment  and perform the job at ease.

When you concentrate on any work, you are always puzzled with the thoughts about end results. The idea must be; you do your best and leave the balance to Him. This is known as do your job with attachment, but detaching your own self.  The aim should be that the work under progress must be a beautiful creation or discharged and let be an offering to Him, the Lord.  This attachment is known as love.  Now, what is the real meaning of passivity or unattached?  You cannot perform any work without attachment.  You have to complete an assignment with devotion.  If you want to create excellent output for any function, you must have a killing instinct and desire; otherwise you cannot address yourself to any work.  You must have a plan followed by a desire to achieve the goal.  So you must have a heartfelt desire for any work.  But once you start and get engrossed in the same, the thoughts of fruitful results will not disturb your mind.  You will be able to continue to perform the work with full attachment, but with passivity.  When you are able to undertake work in this spirit, it is known as meditation.  In this mode of concentration, you are not expecting any self interest and so the end result of your work will not yield any attachment to the results.  The same is known as sacrifice.

The beauty of this earthly life that we think we perform everything on our own merit, own ability and power without knowing the fact of His willingness and desire.  In reality, we are nobody to perform any action. We are His creation and perform any job as decide by Him. This thinking might be a bit puzzling, but it is a fact.  Please remember that our wish to do some work or start any action is  always governed by His wishes. Some people accept this notion and enjoy the life fully and the others are always in constraints.

No sooner, we are able to understand this fact of life and essence of reality, we will be able to undertake any job, give our full focus to accomplish the same, but without any desire for the result.  Our attention to the job that achieving the result becomes secondary.  The only pattern of thinking will be performing the job to the best of the abilities without any greed for the benefit.  The Almighty is omnipotent and omniscient and He will decide what is to be done for the betterment of the performer. So, the crux of the life is to perform a job with full concentration, but without any expectation of result.  And that must be the fundamental postulate of attachment to any with complete detachment for the result. The same is bound to come.