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WILL AND DESIRE
Silence Speaks
for the realisation of their object and are prompted by intense longing for it, none of these things shall then stand in their way, but shall drop down like dead leaves.
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I have to make divisions to explain will and desire: (1) Animal Plane, (2) Mental Plane, (3) Spiritual Plane. These are the kinds of desires. Desires are good as well as bad. Bad desires are connected with passions, sex, etc. Greed, etc., also can be included only in this type. In desires of the mental plane is hidden the secret of self aggrandizement, self-progress, self- ability, etc. When these things are carried on to the spiritual plane, one is reminded of his duty, and is worried about getting out of the snare. The tendency is diverted towards God-Realisation. It is the same tendency which was once connected with the animal-plane, but as duty is included in it, it would be wrong to call it desire. Will is connected with the mental plane because you begin to act mentally,
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