Maturity is when you can transcend your body, and by the body, I mean the bodily compulsions. That includes your thoughts, your feelings, and everything because they are all bodily. You very well know how chemicals in the body translate into thoughts and feelings. Read more...
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Questioner 1: Hello, Sir. We were talking about love, and usually desire and love are quite connected. I've observed this in my relationships, and people have always told me that ‘you're quite needy when it comes to love.’ I wanted to understand how I can love people without being too needy and also, how someone can love others without needing them.
Acharya Prashant: You see, the lower desires, the way they function is you fulfill them, and the desire proliferates. The more you fulfill that desire, the more you remain desirous.
At most, the desire will change name and form. Getting it? A higher desire is one that, if addressed, dissolves for good. That's what a higher desire is. So, it's alright to be needy. It is just that you should know your fundamental needs. If you do not know what you really need, then you will shop for all the wrong things. Won't you? And the world is a huge marketplace; there's so much available. In fact, whatsoever you demand the world will supply. You should know first what your real need is, and it's alright to be needy, but with the right need.
Otherwise, if you call something very ordinary your need, then that's what you will get – ordinariness. And that doesn't help you; that doesn't give you what you really require. So, it's all right. I mean, see:- need, desire, and love at the highest level these three are one. At the highest level, these three are one.
