大象传媒

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Brahmacharini Shripriya Chaitanya

Good morning.

The driving force behind everything we do is said to be desire. Without a strong enough force to push us out of inertia we would simply remain there. Desire is a great motivating force, but it also has the ability to keep us captive.

If we didn鈥檛 have a desire for the day ahead of us, we would simply stay in bed. That desire might come to us in the form of responsibilities, whether work, family, or something else; but the desire to fulfil that responsibility also keeps us moving.

I recently read a sentence which said, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 drink coffee to wake up, I wake up to drink coffee鈥�. This seemed to me to be a perfect example of the way desire holds us hostage. We start off with the simple enough desire for a hot drink with caffeine in the morning; it turns into a habit, and soon enough whether we want it or not, we鈥檙e compelled to have it.

Today, as part of the festival of Diwali, we celebrate a day called Naraka Caturda艣墨. It is said to be the day on which Krishna liberated 16,000 women who had been imprisoned by a demon. Upon being freed, they all had the desire to marry Krishna, and so he made it happen.

We might wonder at such a story, but the idea behind it is that ultimately God fulfils our desires; especially when that desire is a longing for God.

May our desires be a force to bring us closer to God. May we remember God in all our actions and recognise the fulfilment of desires as God鈥檚 grace in our life.

Hari Om.

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