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unlimited. Habits are practice and it does not have any limit. Body creates desires by habits. It does not have any relation with biological world. Habit takes the advantages of inattentiveness, inclination and sometimes too strong for reason. Our lives are a reflection of our habits more than our education.
The body has no discrimination and goes on demanding. It has a built in process of how to demand. It tells what to eat. It tells what to do. The whole arrangement is mechanical. It goes on repeating. It goes on doing things which are not even good for it. Just as bodily urges are cyclical, their fulfilment brings only momentary relief, soon after which they recur, so with many mental desires - they tend to be insatiable and unlimited and can become permanent prison, if given free rein. If one identifies with the urge, it dominates him; if one doesn't, he can dominate it. When human follows his urges blindly, consciousness becomes the slave, and the material desires, the mechanical ones, become the master. They carry him in the fulfilment of the urges to every “do's” and “don'ts” and thus become his master. He becomes the slave to his urges. As a result, he behaves like a reckless person and fills the earth with chaos, exploitation, bloodshed, misbalances and oppression throughout the human society. If the urges are brought under human control, man becomes responsible and behaves nicely in every field of life, filling the earth with honesty, peace and justice all around.
Man has some inborn tendencies of which the tendency to rest, search for food/water and indulge in sex are the most dominating. Bodily urges, which
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