India, Nov. 30 -- When the wise ones say, 'Oh, drop the desire!' it appears to be a very difficult thing to do, isn't it? And we have heard this again and again, and we have grown tired of it.We need to develop the right attitude towards desires and understand their nature. Desire simply comes up in you without your consent. It arises in you when you see or hear about someone's experience, too. If someone tells you about their visit to a particular place, you desire to go there as well. It's normal and natural to have desires. You have desires for perfection; you want everything to be clean, everything to be proper, everything to be the way it should be; and that is okay.

But, in this process of fulfilling your desires, you lose sight of...