What is Necessity and Desire?

Look, there are two things – necessity and desire. Necessity is always fulfilled but desire is never fulfilled. When you are hungry, then there is necessity (aavashyaktaah) of food in stomach, but to want a specific flavor or a particular type of delicious food –this is a desire (kaamnaa). Necessity (aavashyaktaah) is fulfilled, but till date no one's desires (kaamnaa) has been fulfilled. So far it has not happened in anyone's life that all desires have been fulfilled. But the fulfillment of "necessities" (aavashyaktaah) are ordained. In this manner there is necessity and desire. Please listen to this with great concentration and attention and implement/imbibe in it. I was not able to understand this for many years. I used to give discourses and gave these for many years, but the fact that "necessity" and "desire" are two separate – I understood this point very late. Such truths, were received with great hardship. To understand it's essence has been difficult and it has taken a lot of time. The reason I am sharing this with you is so that you may value and respect these points. There is no egotism in this, there is no greatness, nothing extraordinary, in these; if it had been then I would have known this beforehand. But it never occurred to the mind. There had been many such knots, which were untied by Gita. But if you want to know, then you can know it very easily. It is very easy and straightforward.

What is "necessity" (aavashyaktaah) and "desire" (kaamnaa)? At the root, at the very essence the necessity (aavashyaktaah) is of Parmatma and desire (kaamnaa) is of world. This is the main essence. May we always live, may we be ever knowledgeable, may we be eternally happy – this is a necessity (aavashyaktaah) ; because this need of ours is actually of Existence-Conscious ness-Bliss- Absolute (Sat-Chit-Anand- Ghan) personified Parmatma. But the extent to which you consider the world as "necessary" (aavashyaktaah) , how much you want from it, it is all only "desires." When I grasped these two differences, then my mind was elated that today a thorn has been removed from inside!

Necessity is something else, desire is something else. In English I have heard `need' and `desire'- these two words. I have asked many educated people that what is the difference between these two words, but they were not able to point out the real difference. As I say that necessity is only of Paramatma and desire is only of world. But the educated Englishmen did not say it that clearly. Necessities are to be fulfilled; they can never be wiped out. The necessity of Paramatmatattva (realizing the Essential Truth, Essence of God) and our inadequacy in that regard, it can never be erased without attaining fulfillment – this is a law. If a law, a principle is broken then say so.