2 Acharyaji said, “It means we either live instinctively or we live intelligently. That makes all the difference between the two types of mind. To clean the dirt of the mind there is no detergent. Wrong thinking is the cause. To correct the thinking requires us to apply our intelligence to every thought process in our mind. By carefully studying our mind’s ways we can come to understand it and free ourselves from its clutches.”
No one debates on whether we get wet if we touch water, or whether we bet burnt if we play with fire. It is like that with the mind, too. Its nature is to be restless, to rise up to the crests and to sink into the troughs of life. Anything it touches it “wets” with its restless nature, either taking us to peaks of joy or to valleys of sorrow.
3 Desire starts the long chain that takes us through all the following in stages: Anger, Greed, Jealousy, Cravings, Obsessions and Addictions. This is why it is considered to be an impure burden that we carry in life. Desires arise because of ignorance. Kama or desire is then fanned by Sankalpa or imagination, i.e. entertaining fanciful thoughts of how pleasant it would be to have those desires. Then we set about doing all the various activities to fulfil those desires.
4 Only when we are free from the mind can we be desireless. This is the truth being indirectly pointed out in this verse. A pure mind, free of desire, is the very opposite. It starts the chain of Devotion, Service, Charity, Yearning for God, Meditation, and complete Surrender to the Divine. Guruji says, “In short, a desire-ridden mind is sorrowful and impure; and the desireless mind is happy and pure.” From Acharyaji: “The Hindi Kaam (work or activity) is because of the Samskrit Kaama (desire), and therefore the English Calm (peacefulness) is not there!”
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