Once you know where you are chained, you already have the right desire. The right desire is to break the chain. It begins with an observation, and admission of your own state. The right desire is a desire to be free, to be at ease, to be able to flow. To be without fear, that is the right desire. But when we say the right desire is about being fearless, first of all you have to figure out where your fears are.
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Questioner: The questioner is Anjali. She's asking Acharya Ji, the Gita talks about nishkam karm, you have also mentioned it briefly today. So while I currently see whatever actions I take in life comes from some desire, for example going to the gym to stay fit, working to be financially independent, studying because one loves the subject and wants to achieve greater heights and so forth. So how do we really understand this iIn spirituality, how does one discern what right desire is in daily context?
Acharya Prashant: You cannot begin by asking what the right desire is. You have to start with asking where your bondages are. So it starts with self-observation, Anjali. You look at yourself and you find yourself in all kinds of chains and traps and then you know what the right desire is.
Once you know where you are chained, you already have the right desire. The right desire is to break the chain. But I cannot talk of the right desire without knowing where you are in bondage, in domination, in greed, in fear. It begins with an observation, and admission of your own state, right? The right desire is a desire to be free, to be at ease, to be able to flow. To be without fear, that is the right desire. But when we say the right desire is about being fearless, first of all you have to figure out where your fears are. So so figure them out and then fight them with all that you have. That is the right desire.
