No Desire = God

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

If desirelessness (vairagya) and discrimination (viveka) are not present, there is no Self-Knowledge. When these qualities are there, what does one need or demand? One will have no place for God also. God says that such a one is invincible. He says, "He does not want anything. What can I do? He is fearless. He is a renunciate. He has no fear of anyone or anything." One who wants something should worship gods or dead ancestors. While one still has some desire, he has fear. One who does not need anything is the real renunciate. None can hinder him. He has no bondage at all. He does not care for anything. One who wants everything has fear of everything. Such a one is a beggar, and has great fear. There are many who try to entice a man who says he does not want anything. Do not accept anything from anybody. There is a story of a priest (a Brahmin) who found that nobody was ready to give their daughter's hand in marriage to him, so the Brahmin decided not to marry at all. However, he found that when he did not wish to marry, people began to compete among themselves to offer him proposals of marriage, and eventually one man succeeded in marrying his daughter to this Brahmin, providing him with a great many things. This story indicates that if you are greedy you will be sorry, and that the one who is not greedy gets peace and happiness. Even Death is afraid of the one who has no desire. He is really God. Even the gods are not as happy as He is.