596 - Swami Tejomayananda

03/04/2020.

"Conscious destruction of the desire is achieved via the ‘knowledge route’. A philosopher would often go down the town’s fashion street to ‘window shop’ and return home empty handed. Whenever his wife asked the reason for this, his standard reply was, “I wanted to see all the things I did not need!”

The vasana ‘seed’ can be destroyed by diligently working on oneself. Through repeated practice our divine fragrance will emerge and eventually the dust of unhealthy habits created by desires are brushed off."