{"id":1453,"date":"2020-05-26T15:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T10:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinmayaupahar.in\/blog\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2020-05-26T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T10:01:30","slug":"desires-dont-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/desires-dont-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Desires Don\u2019t Come True &#8211; By Swami Chinmayananda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are under a delusory idea that thought is an idle, impotent happening, within ourselves. In fact, thought has godly powers. As each thought sweeps across the mind, its secret potency rises up in front of us, like the mysterious genie in \u2018Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1454 \" title=\"Genie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinmayaupahar.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Genie-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Genie\" width=\"501\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Genie-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Genie-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Genie-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Genie.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A willing slave to execute our thought commands! With the ending of thought, the genie, with faithful anxiety and sincerity, turns upon his heels to execute the order given by man\u2019s conscious mind. But alas! Here the Spirit could take the first step to rush out on his errand, another thought wave of desire has risen up in the inner world calling the genie back to take more orders and, at the command of the mind, it swivels round its heels again to face its master.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sad, indeed, is the plight of this godly agent, the presiding deity of the human mind! This creature of all-might and all power is made, under our own confusing commands and contradictory orders, to stand and whirl like a top, each half of the circle representing a definite command and the other half showing a definite but vain attempt made by the Spirit at its execution! But the desire\u2019s power does not allow it any chance to fulfil itself! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoga is a technique of controlling, conserving, preserving and directing the mental dynamism through a chosen channel of application. If a single-pointed mind can wish for anything to the exclusion of any of its contending thoughts or desires, it shall at once be fulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1455 \" title=\"Yoga\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinmayaupahar.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yoga-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Yoga to control desires\" width=\"503\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yoga-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yoga-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yoga-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Yoga-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also Read: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chinmayaupahar.in\/blog\/master-the-mind\/\">Master the Mind \u00a0by Swami Chinmayananda<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reference: <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/the-speaking-tree\/desires-dont-come-true\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/the-speaking-tree\/desires-dont-come-true\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are under a delusory idea that thought is an idle, impotent happening, within ourselves. In fact, thought has godly powers. As each thought sweeps across the mind, its secret potency rises up in front of us, like the mysterious genie in \u2018Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp\u2019. A willing slave to execute our thought commands!&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/desires-dont-come-true\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chinmayaupahar.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}