Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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DESIRE
and thinking of desire as an unworthy, low, animal, selfish quality and speak of high desires, aspirations, ambitions, zeal, ardour, love etc.
These are nothing but desire.
Preceding every action there must be desire either conscious or unconscious. Even those people who make a virtue of Renunciation of Desire, and who claim to have "conquered desire absolutely" are acting in response to a more subtle form of Desire."
It is really carrying out the desire not to desire certain things. "Lack of desire" to do a certain thing simply means a desire to pursue an opposite course of conduct and action. Desire is manifest in every action and refraining from action, so long as one has capacity for action. There are good desires as well as bad, and one must learn to distinguish between them. The clearer the mental image of the object of the desire the greater will be the degree of the desire manifested-all other things being equal." One may feel hungry in a degree; but when he sees some particular object of taste, the hunger becomes far more intense. The threefold method, Auto-Suggestion, Visualisation and Acting-out-the Part, will develope desire. The objects of development of desire are that (1) Will may be called into play and that (2) Desire Force may be set into activity and thus begin in its 'drawing', attracting 'work.' 'Many people want things but they do not want them hard enough.' No mere wishing or sighing for a thing will do. The desire must be intense, eager, longing, craving, hungry, ravenous, such that will result in mightier effort and achievement. The ardent, keen desire will clear away the undergrowth of the path of success. It will attract to you the people and things, circum. stances and environments, etc., needed for its satisfaction. Desire is the soul of the law of attraction. pp. 228-9 chapter VII, “Secret of Mental Magic" by William Walker Atkinson.
It is generally thought that Will is the great motive power of the mind. This is not correct, unless it is assumed that Will is the active phase of desire. Desire is the motive power that imparts energy to the action. The Will is more as a guiding, directing