If love is considered as divine then why is desire considered as a sin?
Can anyone explain this?
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As per Bhagvath Gita Desire is not Sin, Selfishness is.
Fulfilling desires at the cost of harm to others is Sin.
Many people make a wrong interpretation of one person for a family, one family for a community, one community for a village and a village for a Kingdom as sacrifice.
Actual interpretation is....
A person can strive to fullfill his/her desires but should not let that desire cause misery to the family. Similarly a family can pursue their desires but should not let those desires cause misery to their community. A community then should not become selfish about their desires and cause misery to their village and so on.
The philosophy is extended to mother nature/environment.
For eg... A parent has a stable job but desires to be an actor. He/ she can take every effort to fulfill that desire, but if he / she in the pursuit of that desire destroys financial security of the family then it is a sin.
Lesson is if you get to a situation where you have to choose between desire and duty you must choose your duty.
That is the sin part.
But connected to desire is the senseof entitlement (Ahankar)
A man or a woman is but a tiny inconsequential spec in the whole universe, where millions of variables in totally random behavior result in a unpredictable outcome.
So its not necessary that your desire will get fulfilled, even if you are deserving.
So take efforts to achieve your desires but dont ever assume you are entitled to a favourable outcome, or that desired fulfillment. Because if you take efforts you may get what you want or you may not. But if you dont take efforts you will definetly not get what you want
For eg. You want to top JEE. So you study really hard and take every possible effort to ace it. But whether you will actually achieve your desire to be topper is dependent not just on your efforts, but also the actions of question paper setter, the lakhs of other students who attempt the paper just as you and even nature. Eg a random event like Covid pandemic. But if you dont take efforts to study to be the topper. You will definetly not become a topper.
That is Karm kar Phal ki Iccha mat kar. This is the meaning of Ichha mat kar.
Ichcha mat kar doesnt mean dont desire.
To sum up, Take efforts to fulfill your desires, because without efforts no desire can get fulfilled, but dont assume that your desire will get fulfilled just because you are deserving and most importantly dont ignore your duties while you take efforts to fulfill your desire.
Edited by Chiillii - 4 years ago