Narada Bhakti Sutras - Day 1 (Part 2)

Divine Love is Beyond Desires

1. Our desires promise fulfillment but the moment one desire is fulfilled, it give rise to ten desires and whole energy is wasted in fulfilling those ten desires and the desires multiply.
2. Does a desire bring contentment? Once a desire is fulfilled it doesn't bring contentment, it brings greed.
3. Yad Prapya Na Kinchid Vanchati Na Shochati!
Na Dveshti, Na Ramate Notsahi Bhavati!!
4. Having attained that (Divine Love) there is no desire left; you don't grief for anything; you do not hate anything; you don't get lost in anything and you do not become over excited.
5. The greatest misfortune in this planet would be to feel satisfied when there is no love in life.
6. Sign of divine love is - contentment!
7. Desires whether fulfilled or unfulfilled make you unhappy.
8. Buddha said: desire gives rise to misery. All the misery in this world is because of desires.
9. We are trying to find fulfillment where it doesn't exist. We don't look for contentment where it comes from but we look for it where it doesn't exist.
10. Desires bring grief and grief brings hatred. That which gives comfort and joy becomes bondage and then you start hating is because you don't like bondage. We always hate something for which we have craving or desires.
11. Desires bring frustration; frustration leads to hatred. You want things to be in a certain way and when things don't turn out that way, it brings great frustration and then you start hating. And hatred eats your whole system, your mind, your consciousness. It burns you.
12. One who has attained the divine love or understood a little bit of it, doesn't get lost. He doesn't get carried away by events or happenings.
13. Excitement makes you go crazy. It throws you off-balance.
14. Divine love brings such a fulfillment; and it is good that this fulfillment doesn't come to you by any other means otherwise it makes you dull and sets in inertia.
15. Lucky are those who don't get contented with material things. That yearning for truth, for something higher, keeps life moving upwards and is driving force for our evolution.