AP: How can one be aware of ones’ hidden motives in seemingly chance meetings with persons of the opposite sex?
Meetings, events are by chance. But the motive is not by chance. The events are sporadic, episodic! But the motive is a continuity, a permanent presence. It is like a hungry beast prowling about. Whether or not it would meet a lamb, or a deer, or a rabbit, is a matter of chance. But the beasts’ intentions are not a matter of chance.
The intention is permanently there during the prowl. The eyes are full of that intention. Now whether or not this intention gets fructified, is another matter. It depends on whether the chance meeting take place and it depends upon whether the object that you meet, is prepared to be a victim of that chance. But the intention is always there. That intention will keep showing up in every action that we do. Not only in the meetings, even before the meeting. If this (pointing to a direction…) does not satisfy you, this (pointing to another direction) does not satisfy you and this does not satisfy you, then obviously you are looking for something other than all this.
So, even if, a person of opposite gender is not available, you have sufficient ground to know what you are looking for. Nothing else seems to quench your thrust. Nothing else fills up your mind. The beasts’ mind is full of flesh. Even before it meets the deer! Is it not?
That deer is just one individual manifestation of the broad category of animals having flesh! Right? Whether that one sample presents and exhibits itself, might be a matter of chance. But the general concept of flesh, the general idea and desire of flesh is always present irrespective of the particular incident of flesh that will present itself to you. The deer is just one incident of flesh. Is it not? But flesh-ness itself is the permanent place in the mind. Know this that if you are a seeker of material then it is flesh that you are after. Consciously you might not even know that but if material attracts you a lot, then sooner than later you will find yourself in the throes of flesh. Are you getting it?
