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having and possessing and growing consciously). Consciousness itself becomes a kind of desire-result. But since this consciousness that we have is but consciousness of limitation and consciousness of need for a fuller experience, the Ultimate is something very different from this type of consciousness. This obviously cannot be the nature of the Ultimate Being which is infinite and omnipervasive and indivisible and Ultimate depending on no other status or state beyond it. Our desires have also been habituated in the sense that we have all been brought up to cultivate desires. Thus very innocuous mottoes such as 'Aim High' and so on, leave the definition of 'high' out and thus men are pursuing the worldly height which brings out the results of such ambition, sorrow, defeat and collapse of ideals of the outer region. It has been clearly shown through history that ideals of infinite extension of power and rule over Nature and Man has met with defeat invariably. Outer power has a tendency to inflict self defeat and dissolution, for it is not the intrinsic goal of man. True religious and spiritual life seeks inward discovery of God rather than objectification of the personality of God or of oneself. Desires are thus the central problem for man.
Ignorance of one's true nature may be said to be the cause of wrong desire. Ignorance of one's present condition also is the second cause of wrong desire. Men do not know which is right desire and which is wrong desire. We are in a world in which perhaps the wrong desire appears to be right desire and right desires are said to be wrong. Surely the 'right' of Buddha had the inward-turn whereas the same 'right' of modern man is outward-turn and the tables of interpretation have been clearly turned. It seems to be a capital truth that there is a peculiar process of Vivarta or inversing or upturning in the human mind itself which periodically makes the right appear as wrong and wrong appears as right. The meaning however, in this inversion does not remain the same as in formal logic. It is precisely the business or task of the Supreme Consciousness to reverse or inverse this inversion and lead to the proper spiritual perception of the reality. It is a task which the Divine Consciousness alone can perform since it alone will modify the workings of the ego which is the maintainer of the system of inversions through habits ingrained by desires of particular outward going type. Thus the obstacles for ascent of the individual to the awareness and experience of reality are capable of being overcome or crossed over by the