Desire

Our desire to love someone here in this earthly planet is a reflection of our original desire to love
God
“You are what your deep driving desire is, as your desire is so, so is your will, as your will is so, so is
your deed, as your deed is so, so is your destiny.”
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5:

The body, the mind, the intelligence, the ego: use your mind to control your body, use your intelligence
to control your mind, and use “the ego” to control your intelligence. “Ego” is the real you, the eternal
living spirit soul. True ego is: “knowing who you are and what your position is in the world around
you. The false conception of ego is: “I am a man, I control all that I see, I can do this, I can do that”
This is a false identification with the ego and this is “not” the true self. When you identify with your
true self and you know who you are, then you know the real truth. The true ego is: knowing who you
are.
Those who deny the existence of God are trying to become God by default, but that is the one very
constant impossibility.
The question is who gave the intelligence to this person? The intelligence comes from the life force, the
true ego. Where does life come from? Life comes from life. God controls everything by default and by
definition that’s what God is. Just as a huge tree comes from a small seed, our small “true self” comes
from God’s infinite supreme self.

What is real love? First there must be two egos in the equation to conclude the word love. You can love
your self, but that is still two egos because it is the real you in love with your ideal ego: that is, your
real ego in love with your conception of your ideal “false” ego. That, of coarse is not real love. You can
be in love with another person, or so you think, but that’s not real love either because you are also in
love with a false conception of the other’s ego: you think they are a type of person who looks a certain
way, acts a certain way, moves a certain way, talks a certain way, and thinks a certain way. You are not
in love with them; you are in love with a false notion. They are not their false ego, they “are” their true
ego. They are not their body. Real love is love of the ultimate lover: He is the ultimate Supreme Being.
Everyone in this material world is infatuated with lifeless mater. I love this beautiful girl or this
beautiful boy. A natural attraction is there because everything on material planet is a perverted refection
of the life we have had in the perfect spiritual sky where God resides in His supreme personal form.
But to really understand this is to know that true love is love in the purest form: love of the perfect
being.
Our desire to love someone here in this earthly planet is a reflection of our original desire to love God.
Just as you may have a burning desire to be the best man/woman on earth, if you understand your
desire, you will attain that small position of best man/woman on earth. If you desire to love God, with a
burning desire, so you will attain His love. This is not a false notion. This is a real notion because God
is the epitome of Truth. A falsity is putting your faith in something that will change, as if it would last
forever. God is the constant. You may say you love all those material possessions, but they will cease to
be in the future. That beautiful girl in her next life will look different according to her karma. If she has
good karma and a burning desire to love God, she will remember Him in her next life and have the
opportunity to be with Him in His abode, maybe even in this life. To love real truth is “true love” and
you must have a burning desire for the truth in order to attain it.

The famous philosopher Socrates, when he discusses the different types of love in “Plato’s
Symposium,” says that the greatest type of “love” is Philosophy because it concludes an eternal truth.
The truth is: “knowing what your constitutional position is: your relationship with the Universe and of
coarse God- who is the controller of the Universe.” There are different types of knowledge. One might
know, for instance, that he has the body of a man or that she has that body of a woman. That is general
knowledge or “Dead Truth:” something that you can see with the material eyes to make a certain
judgment and then use that judgment to make a certain truth. For example, I see a tree, a rock, a stream,
a woman, a man, a house. This is a type of false knowledge because when the body, which is operated
by the soul, dies by disease or old age everything is forgotten, when the entity is under the conception
that he or she is part of this material world: that he or she is the body. That type of truth that existed to
that person when he or she was alive in that old body is irrelevant. That knowledge doesn’t cease to
exist when the person’s body ceases to exist, but it ceases to exist to that person when he or she leaves
the body and takes a new body on earth. “Real Knowledge” is: “knowing” what the position of the tree,
rock, stream, woman, man, and house is. They are temporary in the big picture. In the “Real Truth”
they are what scientist call “matter,” temporary material dead “lifeless” things. The body will get old
and wither, the rock will become a mountain or get corroded by rain, and the house will fall apart and
become dust. In the future they will become other material things and they never really exist, because
to “exist” is to have consciousness, to understand, to know to be able to feel, to love, comprehend,
discover, to live. You, the eternal living spirit soul, other eternal living spirit souls, and God will always
exist. You are in one body in one lifetime and then another body in the next life. So “Real Truth” is
Truth that exists eternally and the real you, the ego, is “understanding who you are.”

You “are” what your deep driving “desire” is. If you really desire God and you “understand” it, then
you will go to Him in the spiritual sky. If you desire to be the greatest man/woman on earth and you
really understand it, then that is who you think you are and that is what you will become. That
conception of “man” is a false truth because if you attain the position of best man on earth, God is the
best man is the universe (always) and you can not top that. If you understand that these designations:
Man, Woman, Animal, Rich, Poor, they are all false truths because you can never be “Man, Woman,
Animal, Rich, Poor,” forever.

Truth is the Truth that is always True, forever. The one constant that is always true: there is only one
Supreme Personality of Godhead. If you understand truth, understand YOU, understand who God is
and you have understood everything.