The Stupidity of DESIRES Exposed in the GREATEST Spiritual Story Ever Told

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Renouncing desires is a core tenet within the great Eastern spiritual traditions. Desires continually consume people's minds. But what if I were to tell you that desires themselves are the world? What does that mean? In this episode of The Sacred Word, I will explain an important verse from the Ashtavakra Gita, a text one is ready to assimilate after enlightenment. The Ashtavakra Gita is for those who want to absorb themselves in the presence of the Ultimate Reality after awakening.
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@JasonGregoryAuthor 9 ай бұрын

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@reversefulfillment9189 9 ай бұрын

Eternity is a long time folks. Popping in and out of duality breaks things up, keeps it fresh.

@FrancisFurtak 6 ай бұрын

Could be.

@oneconsc3333 9 ай бұрын

There are many paradoxes in life and I’d say there are contradictions within spiritual teachings which I won’t expand on here, however, with all desires comes suffering. And this is true, wether you get what you want or wether you don’t get what you want will bring about suffering. They say ask and it is given, well, how can I ask (God) the infinite Devine intelligence for anything if I already am and already have everything? By merely asking we are saying God has missed something. Isnt this Devine intelligence the “knower” of all things and knows what I need and do not need? This is why I do not ask for anything in prayer, I merely show gratitude for all things, and that means for all the things of this world we deem as good or bad (duality) or challenging, painful etc. And we are also told that we are powerful beings/creators and we can manifest anything into existence. Well, for me, I strongly feel that equanimity plays a big part when “desiring” peace. It’s comes down to the parable of the farmer and the horse....”maybe yes, maybe no”. Whenever something good or bad happens it does not move you one way or the other, you remain in the middle in equanimity because in the moment it’s either good or bad but we don’t know what’s coming next so “maybe yes, maybe no”...(good or bad), it’s all the same and it’s all meant for us🙏🏼💜🇨🇦

@Darksagan 9 ай бұрын

Schrodinger's cat was in a state of equanimity. lol

@dare-er7sw 9 ай бұрын

Look into Ken Wapnick's teachings of A course in miracles

@peterkilbridge6523 8 ай бұрын

"... whether you get what you want..." A "wether" is a castrated ram, as a "gelding" is a castrated stallion. A "bellwether" is a wether with a bell around his neck to lead the flock. Hence, "bellwether" stock, etc.

@usarmyveteran177 6 ай бұрын

Nothing happens to you. Everything happens for you.

@brianpan6453 2 ай бұрын

All joking aside is "Get your spiritual merch" one of those contradictions?

@jamesvance8114 3 ай бұрын

Perfect message of Truth! Thanks!❤🔥

@baronbullshyster2996 9 ай бұрын

Desires and problems. As soon as one goes another comes along. It’s a shame buses weren’t like this as I’m still waiting of a bus to Satori. Enjoying the content of your channel in the mean time. 🙏

@brianpan6453 2 ай бұрын

You are already on that bus.

@AllLifeForsExtnsofLivingMother 9 ай бұрын

JIVA is but a manifestation of the BRAHMA although in the third dimension. Renunciation of desire is "not exclusive detachment from desire" BUT PURSUIT OF DESIRE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DETACHMENT.

@tommroy 8 ай бұрын

Before there was any thing, there was only an infinite ocean of potential energy. You are familiar with this; the energy that can not be created nor destroyed, only changed in form. The force of creation that caused awareness to rise from potential is the inherent desire to become something. This is what all traditions call "Spirit". From this mental state, time/space and matter arose for the sake of experience. But why? Because in the mental state, we desired to touch, to taste, to smell, to EXPERIENCE. The world is desire, because it has arisen from desire, plain and simple.

@bretedwards2899 6 ай бұрын

One never knows if trying to help a person actually helps them or hurts them in the long run. It seems cruel to say "I just don't care what the world does", but it also demonstrates an honesty of realizing that you can not control this world of Maya, nor should you wish to. Being objectively honest does not feel good to your ego, but if you desire freedom and truth it is essential, lest Maya and your own personal illusion hold you in bondage throughout your life.

@jesseoterrell1096 8 ай бұрын

Emotion proceeds thought and thought proceeds action DESIRE true desire should only be food,water and shelter...

@ianfraser1608 7 ай бұрын

And the desire for woman. And action is truth. action is the moment, whatever that is, no thought, no emotion needed, no processing, just action. Truth. Action can be the emotion, the thought, the action, the desire, I don't see an order to it, just the truth of it. And the doors that open from learning the truth. Peace

@melvynasplett3399 9 ай бұрын

The oneness has made this world. WHY ? .? It’s amazing how it keeps going . The knower the known and the act of knowing we can make our heaven or hell because we have free will

@diegopassosdossantos5964 9 ай бұрын

Great thoughts! Greetings forma Brazil

@josesantana27 9 ай бұрын

I have to say that I wasn't expecting that response. The part of your response that resonates with me, rediscovering the nature of Brahman or (Atman) by going through samsara rebirth and death cycle. Thank you for sharing your perspective 🙏

@melissaqualls5774 9 ай бұрын

Thank You 🙏❤

@nowanobady 9 ай бұрын

Desires itself are the world. Wow! Thank for the reminder 🤍✨🙏

@aomonte8 9 ай бұрын

Very good! thank you very much for sharing this 🙏🙂

@annmorgana2848 9 ай бұрын

Just wanted to thank you Jason for all your work. I really think this examination of the old texts and teachings is so critical, I appreciate your wealth of knowledge. I get a little annoyed or amused, depending on the day, with the liberal western world, watching them be in denial about the usefulness of these old teaching, but adopting a yoga class, buddha in the garden cultural veneer while sneering at the notion of a real spiritual practice. Our old friend Mara i suppose.. all the best!

@ezreality 9 ай бұрын

Good video Thank you, Jason

@MrMoneyHelper 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful.

@marshalrommel3410 9 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@FrancisFurtak 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, one with Brahman. That's where it's at!😊 Thanks again.

@paulychannel7914 8 ай бұрын

We are ALL here because of desire.... according to Kashmir Shaivism.. Shiva ( or Brahman) through an outpouring of INFINITE BLISS desired to create the Universe...... And here we are..... Jivas who have " forgotten " we're all Shiva.... coz It's the........ " play of consciousness".... & there are no boundaries.........

@JM-jd7yp 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for this excellent video. You have a gift for revealing some of the most important aspects of Eastern philosophy. I can clearly see how desire brings an emotional aspect to our view of reality which distorts the true image. Unconciously through emotion we are bending reality to see what we want to see just like a prism. This is a very important concept and I will take time to reflect on it. Thank you and I wish you well.

@lyellmurray7355 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🕉️💜🙂

@MadhuViswambharan 9 ай бұрын

Brilliant you explained the world of illusion in few words.

@Disha_pat 9 ай бұрын

Right!! Run run run from this MAYA so called outward world and turn inside, realize the ONLY which is SELF 😊 Let’s all be free from this cycle forever

@tobinharris8107 9 ай бұрын

“Cleanse you lens”~another great idea for a T-shirt. 😉 Thanks J ❤👍🕉

@oldnewsglory 9 ай бұрын

Nice outro music! 🎶

@ZBB0001 9 ай бұрын

But what if, once you realize this, you choose to help others? So Avalokiteshvera realized this but as he was entering Brahman he turned back and saw an animal, some say it was a fox some a hare, and he saw that it was injured and he turned back to enlightenment and told his Uncle there that he could not justify his own lack of suffereing while there was inarguably so much suffering occuring. His Uncle said, "I understand! But if you are to go back i must give you one hundred eyes to see the suffereing, and one hundred arms to cure it." And so Avalokiteshvera became a Bodhisattva, one who puts off there enlightenment until all sentient beings have the option of entering enlightenment together. And so became the Second Turning of the Wheel of Dharma. What do you think? -Laurence Pennington, reincarnation of the Abbott of Hanle Monastery PS. An EXCELLENT analysis by the way! PSS. Now add the current discussion on the physical existence of a consciousness field (analogous to the Higs field). Do you understand?

@Mikelectric 9 ай бұрын

very eloquent explanation. I think on the one hand explanation is good but buddha asked us to go and see it for ourselves

@kalpanabhat3513 9 ай бұрын

Your talk is great treat for the day , it’s makes instantly happy and also calms down the life 🙏

@MrTewaka2 5 ай бұрын

Well described. (:-)

@timmouchel2746 9 ай бұрын

where does the colour come from? If one can arrive at a place without question and reside in acceptance, does that not suggest that we Brahman /Atman desire experience. I do feel a pull towards the indifferent to enable the truth, experience itself is the cause of emotion. Seems counter-productive to arrive at an ultimate goal. My logic says one can only be the three as awareness enables the one to exist. To be one with the one does my head in. Shanti Shanti Shanti

@williamkauffman5745 9 ай бұрын

🙏

@leeevans4977 9 ай бұрын

❤

@preethampooserla3933 9 ай бұрын

DESIRE IS THE HEART OF LIFE…. So long as there is desire there is LIFE… So long there is life there is challenges. IF YOU REMOVE DESIRE THERE IS NO LIFE… No life no issues.. everything and everyone around is fun to have..

@michaelferguson2344 9 ай бұрын

Desire is consciousness. Pure love is what we are, projecting here. Pure love is reflected on the screen of consciousness; the root of desires. Consciousness is the illusion. Peace be within you. 💖

@oneconsc3333 9 ай бұрын

What??

@patcummins6036 9 ай бұрын

How do I disagree yet not offend you?

@felice9907 9 ай бұрын

@@patcummins6036 let it go ...haha!

@EnkheeDJagar 5 ай бұрын

No being, No non-being

@krishnagondhea7428 9 ай бұрын

Renouncing desires is impossible. It’s urges we have. We can discriminate between the desires which will serve us to reach our highest spiritual selves and those that are too materialistic and will not serve us. But to let go of every desire is not possible.

@josesantana27 9 ай бұрын

Nameste, Jason. Great content as always. I have a question, is there a text in the sacred Vedanta tradition explaining the reasons We chose to manifest in Maya this world? Why leave being with Brahman to experience this challenging world? Thanks again for your content 🙏 Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!

@AllLifeForsExtnsofLivingMother 9 ай бұрын

For experiencing and learning the lessons already encompassed in brahman in entirely different dimension. Challenges on this dimension are but mental constructs to confine the infinite within you if you allow it to block you. Fight the challenges or Manifest the heaven on earth itself by attainment of true spiritual knowledge and raising your vibration and believing in magic... Choice is completely yours.❤

@josesantana27 9 ай бұрын

@AllLifeForsExtnsofLivingMother Nameste. I absolutely love this statement. It's just challenging to be in this reality. If one has the perspective from Brahman, it makes sense, and all the difficulties we experience is the catalyst for our reunion with Brahman.

@sirius_s2028 6 ай бұрын

Try renouncing desire...it's not that easy. Seeing the impermanence of phenomena and the nature of craving and desire is the path. Watch these things within yourself. Be free!

@jasonms...1313.Conscious... 9 ай бұрын

I get what you're saying! This moment is just that...a moment of desires made up for our entertainment in this made up reality, being that Brahma is eternal but this is just a moment.

@Curiosity6504 9 ай бұрын

Bliss is real reality desires and sufferings are real illusion.

@user-wn7jc8bt9g 3 ай бұрын

If you have absolutely no desires you will not even talk you will not do anything you are equivalent to a dead person To not have desire is to not have drive Desire is in us It is a hunger and a thirst. You can go down to like 0.0001 lol Of basically not wanting anything only to eat only to drink only to sleep and nothing else

@samartman3395 9 ай бұрын

Great wisdom here. Was wondering if someone made a contribution to your channel could that be used as a tax deduction in America?🙏🕉️☸️☯️☮️🥰

@otavio.a.8.r 9 ай бұрын

Why should people seek for the end of reincarnation? Wouldn't it be against the Brahman purpose and great will? If Brahman is the absolute essense of the multiverse that shapeshifted and molded itself internally into the very shapes of our illusionary world, couldn't this be its will. Perhapts to have the experience of living, of interacting with something else rather than ITself, it shapeshifted into many characters of a big story for the enjoyment of playing this big play. Perhaps create a new story of "enligntent" people which are contiousnoss or semi-contiousnous about brahman would be its current will, but to look for waking up (escape samsara and becaming ONE brahman again) wouldn't be the opposite for whatever it was doing the create the existence in first place? By the way, it's not a critisism, I like your videos. I'm justing phylosofing a bit about all of that.

@michaelgusovsky 9 ай бұрын

whether people should, or not, is a personal choice. when a soul has had many incarnations, it may choose to exit the wheel of samsara, the cycle of birth and rebirth, with its attendant suffering and confusion, and instead return to its source, the source of all light and peace and bliss. nothing is against the will of brahman; everything that happens, is in accordance with the will of brahman.

@jayros4269 9 ай бұрын

We seek an end because life is incredibly painful and it's all for the sake of momentary pleasures that do not fulfill us.

@otavio.a.8.r 9 ай бұрын

@@michaelgusovsky Wouldn't this peace and bliss state be temporary as once atma becames brahman it would eventually just start all over again? If everything is the uncounciously sleeping Brahman fragments and Brahman started everything by manifesting a world of selfs inside itself, what is to be against the will of brahman? Wasn't maya brahman's will, at first place?

@michaelgusovsky 9 ай бұрын

@@otavio.a.8.r peace and bliss are not temporary states, they are our true nature, they are the nature of the unchanging. we can forget our true nature, but even then it doesn't go away, just as clouds can cover the sun, but it is still there behind the clouds, shining brightly.

@annmorgana2848 9 ай бұрын

i see it as a ‘right journey’ through life. Aspire to return to brahman, and follow the path, and you naturally will live the best version of your own adventure.

@JetPilot747 9 ай бұрын

Ok can somebody now summarize this in human terms? What is the message? Quit work or jobs, leave wife, go into the forest and sit under a tree for the rest of our life and accept we are all connected spiritually?

@MadhuViswambharan 9 ай бұрын

Consciousness is the key to whatever you do good.Its not easy to control our senses, consciousness can control your mind. The easiest method is consciousness on the whole which you can develop by devotional practices. You don't have to abandon what you are doing good to be a Sanyasi.

@dinawalsh3988 8 ай бұрын

Where does being CONSCIOUSE creators then come in once unity becomes established. Will better things manifest in one's life? I let go of all desires for like 3 years and nothing manifested to change my life.