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[PARAMASHIVAN]

Jaggi Vasudev - Don't fight with your passions and desires
Question - Sadhguru, I know what you are saying, but at times I have this inner struggle that I am still missing out on many things in life by walking this path. How can I cope with this?
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev - When this one thing is not fixed within you, then every moment is a struggle, because every moment has a doubt; "What shall I do? May be I am missing out, may be I am missing life, maybe this or that may not happen to me," all kinds of things.

There are so many things that we don't know about, that other people may be doing. They may be eating, enjoying and doing many other things. Nathalie, have you ever eaten cockroach pickle? No, isn't it? You missed it? But for someone who has eaten it a few times and it is not available anymore, only he misses it. It is just the way we make it in our mind. Nobody is missing anything. Is is just that you make it that way within yourself. "Oh I did not eat this. I didn't go snow skiing or disco dancing!"

This is simply because you have made these things important in your mind. If you fix the goal of your life, you wull not miss anything. All these vasanas are there within everybody. The past karmas have influences over you, they push you this way and that way. All your passions, all your desires, you can't fight with them. Don't ever try to fight with your passions and desires. Fighting with them is like fighting the demon, Mahishasura. If one drop of his blood falls, a thousand Mahishasura rise up.

Your desires and passions are just like this. If you try and fight with them, if you chop them, they will spill blood, and with every drop, a hundred or a thousand will come up. There is no point fighting them. Just educate your passions, educate your desires to flow in the right direction, that is all. You can never fight them. Fighting them will be futile, it will be a waste of life.