{"id":7155,"date":"2013-12-27T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverursupersoul.com\/2013\/12\/we-lament-we-fret-we-hanker-and-we-regret\/"},"modified":"2013-12-27T04:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T04:23:00","slug":"we-lament-we-fret-we-hanker-and-we-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/we-lament-we-fret-we-hanker-and-we-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"We lament, we fret, we hanker and we regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">The fire of unlimited desires constantly burns our heart. Desires always tease us and like an uncontrolled horse make us wild. Few of the most common desires which everybody nurtures is \u2013 desire for amassing wealth, owning a palatial bungalow, driving the most luxurious car, having a beautiful\/handsome sexual partner, becoming famous, possessing the latest and the best gadgets and gizmos of this world, remaining always young, looking always attractive, being the cynosure of everyone\u2019s eyes..\u2026 and so on. Our desire list is unending and incremental. Out of these lists some of our desires may get fulfilled but not all. And the once which will get fulfilled will also not last with us forever. Although we spend our life running behind our insatiable desires, it never brings any pleasure in our life. Our whimsical mind cheats us and gives us a false hope that happiness will be ours once all our desires get fulfilled. We lament, we fret, we hanker and we regret thinking \u201cIf only I would have achieved \u201cit\u201d I would have been happy today\u201d or \u201cIf only I achieve \u201cit\u201d I will then become happy\u201d. Chasing the desire is like running after a mirage in the desert. Krishna in Bhagavad Gita 2.70 warns that peace will elude those who run behind the desires: A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires \u2014 that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still \u2014 can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">So let us not become slave of our unending desires but instead control it. This will bring peace and pave the way for ultimate happiness.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fire of unlimited desires constantly burns our heart. Desires always tease us and like an uncontrolled horse make us wild. Few of the most common desires which everybody nurtures is \u2013 desire for amassing wealth, owning a palatial bungalow, driving the most luxurious car, having a beautiful\/handsome sexual partner, becoming famous, possessing the latest&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more11\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/we-lament-we-fret-we-hanker-and-we-regret\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,10,156],"class_list":["post-7155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-desire","tag-krishna","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}