Desire, Will, Mind, Simplify and Frazzle Free - (504)

Desire is Will

Basically desire comes from the causal world and filters through the mind and into our emotions and then into our actions. Desires are felt as more emotion than anything else, however before they were in the emotion they were in the mind.

Mind and Desire

Desires are trapped will, and what does the trapping is the mind. The mind also receives the desires or the will and either directs it into the mind’s own conditionings and patterns or diverts it or weakens it. The mind can accelerate the fulfilment of a desire or delay it. Usually what the mind does when there is a will to work on our self or to do something that the body or the senses don’t like, is to delay the idea.

Too Many Desires Frazzles

When we have many initiatives or desires they all collect in our mind and our mind as the organiser of desire becomes very frazzled on how to fulfil all of them. We can easily fall into a state of hesitation, excessive planning and overall frazzling, where we just get overwhelmed and end looking blank out the window for hours or just going around and around achieving nothing.

Simplify by Eliminating or Amalgamating

The best two ways to deal with frazzling due to having too many desires is to write down all of our desires and then really consult very honestly with ourselves if fulfilling this or that desire is convenient, useful and necessary for us. Most of the desires are not, so then and there we can just eliminate them or cross them off the list. Then we must go with conscious investigation into what is behind this desire and then with understanding and prayer to our Divine Mother come to dissolve this desire.

There is another way which is to amalgamate all these desires into one common desire, and the best desire is the desire for freedom, freedom from the mind and the ego. This desire can burn or consume all the other ones.

Conclusion

When we reduce the number of desires our mind will remain quiet or quieter than before. Also then when there is a will to work on our self or there is a desire to practice astral unfolding or something esoteric the mind will not be able to weaken it as much as before, and it won't delay this will or desire by putting it into a list of other desires to be fulfilled etc. etc. that we never get around to fulfilling.

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