Do you dream? Everyone does…isn’t it?

But I am not talking about those dreams that you dreamt during your sleep. Those are just memory revisions of your brain. I am talking about your desires! Yes, in a real sense dream is nothing but a desire. You desire to be an actor, to be a doctor, to be a topper in the class, to be a scientist, to be a rich countryman, to be a famous entrepreneur…endlessly it goes on! It is the desire that makes you do all the activities of life. But how? Okay…let me ask you a question! What makes you read this article right now? What makes you get up from the bed and brush your teeth? What makes you eat your breakfast? What makes you go to your workplace? (your job). It’s all your desire that makes you alive. Yes! desire is life. Without desire, you cannot do a thing. Alright, we understand that. Now let me ask you one more question! What is the root cause of all the suffering in human beings? The answer is very simple. It is the Unfulfilled Desires that lies within you. The damn life is not happening the way you want it to be!

Desire is life but it is the source of all your miseries! Let’s say, you seen someone who desired to be a doctor but was unable to do and committed suicide as a result of his frustration, or someone who had great ambition and worked hard to become an IAS officer or gain admission to a prestigious university but was unable to accomplish their goal and end their life because they couldn’t handle distress. These incidents occur around us, sometimes daily. Isn't it true that the root cause of these unfortunate incidents is unfulfilled desire?

Have you ever given a thought to about why we desire? If you see life with necessary awareness you will notice that the very process of life is seeking in nature. It is seeking for something, a certain urge to include, evolve and grow to its ultimate nature. When you analyze your most basic desires such as prosperity, fame, traveling, sexuality, shopping, knowledge, or love, you will notice that the underlying urge is to include something or someone into yourself. Fundamentally, you want to expand your way of being, and it will not going to settle for any amount of expansion. There is a part of you that longs for a boundless experience. It occurs in all aspects of life. For example, take a look at the lives of plants. When you sow a seed, it grows into a sapling,then a plant, and finally a tree. It continues to rise. Would it have been grown upwards if it didn't have the boundlessness?

But why this boundlessness or limitlessness? Because the life you are is infinite or limitless. But the problem is, it is identified with this limited physical body. This infinite life cannot be confined in its limited body therefore, it thirst for more and that is what we call a desire. Take a look at the world's billionaires! Isn't it true that they aspire to be a bit richer every day than they were yesterday? Desire finds different physical expressions. Remember that desire is not for more, it is for “all”. When this craving for oneness or the desire to embrace everything as a part of yourself manifests as a basic physical expression, we can call it sex. When it comes to sex, you're frantically seeking to unite with someone. It doesn't happen how hard you try. Yes, you may believe for a time that you have become one with another person, but you realize that everything is separate. When you try this mentally, it is usually described as avarice, conquest, or ambition. You desire to conquer the world by incorporating everything as a part of yourself. If this finds an emotional expression, we call it love. We call it yoga, when it finds conscious expression. YOGA means union. The whole game is about whether, your desire finds a conscious expression or an unconscious expression. When your desire finds a conscious expression, it makes your life beautiful and finding an unconscious expression, it makes your life ugly.

You want more and more, and because of your wrong identification with your body, you have forgotten that you are infinite in reality. That doesn't mean you don't accomplish anything in life and just say to yourself, "I am infinite! I am infinite!” No, don’t do this. Do everything that you want to do but you just need to desire consciously. If you have a conscious desire, such as"I want to be a good doctor so that I may provide a social contribution to humanity. I will put forth the necessary effort to achieve my goal. And if I don't achieve my goal, that's just fine; I'll do something else to help humanity” . When you become a little conscious, suddenly you can feel the profundity of your life.

Sadhguru, once said something like this: “When Patanjali wrote the yogasutras, he began them in a unique manner, The first chapter of the yogasutras begins with ‘...and now, yoga’—a half-sentence. A great life document begins with a half-sentence. It makes no sense intellectually, but what it means experientially is: "If you still feel that buying a new house, finding a new wife, or getting your daughter married will settle your life, it is not yet time for yoga."

But, if you've seen money, power, wealth, and pleasure, if you've tasted everything in your life, and you've realized that nothing is going to work in the genuine sense and eventually please you, it's time for yoga.”

Yoga is the ultimate tool to raise the human consciousness. Do yoga, be conscious, and experience the profundity of life.