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By: Unpretentious Diva

Unpretentious Diva — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:13:23 +0000

But that must not lead to the conclusion that life ONLY entails desires. One must not define a function by just one of the outputs.

Desires are not only the outputs, they are the cause, the driving force too. If no desire, than no consciousness. If no consciousness, than no life.

I never tried to define the function of life, I just explained the truth about Cause andd Output of that function.

By: NesQuarX

NesQuarX — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:54:25 +0000

Life entails Consciousness, Consciousness entails desires. Thus life entails desires. But that must not lead to the conclusion that life ONLY entails desires. One must not define a function by just one of the outputs. .-= NesQuarX´s last blog ..The words that built this blog. =-.

By: GP

GP — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:49:51 +0000

About Desires
==> As per my understanding – Desires are nothing but just an effect of Maya” ( read Mayawaad for more details).
As long as your soul is trapped in human body its very difficult to overcomes desires coz humans are mesmerized by Maya – The illusion
The logic behind creating “Effect of maya” by Almighty is to make sure – every soul can enjoy materialistic pleasures of life in human or other living forms ( 84 millions as per scriptures) till it become fed up with
materialistic pleasures and realize the emptiness and void in it.

By: GP

GP — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:31:17 +0000

I wud like to rephrase my statement for more clarity. “free will exist” only in human mind as they feel – they are free to do anything( which is absolutely right as humans do have feelings)
and they do it freely ( which is also correct ) BUT, they forgot that – whtever choices they make, whatever options they choose , whatever decisions they take in their lives are subject to availability of choices/options in that particular scenario/situation.

So my question is – can u call such decision taken or choice/option you chose as “freely chosen?” Don’t u think ur choices/options are just like
“placing an order from set of ONLY available items on menucard?” In short – being restricted and governed by external factors which are beyond ur control?

Bottomline – Free will is just a perception. As Einstein said it “A human can very well do what he wants, but cannot will what he wants.”

By: Gaurav Shrivastava

Gaurav Shrivastava — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:03:01 +0000

Desires have died many deaths by the hands of theologist, philospher , psychologists, spiritualist, mystic, religious heads , politician blah blah blah blah. I will just say that an act of being widout any desires is also a desire in itself which people have never realized.