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his wild desires and passions, will not break
free of the grip of the false dreams and will
not restrain the wild run of the senses, he will
not be able to get rid of his worries, agonies,
and loss of peace. One who goes after fulfilling
his desires for worldly things without giving a
serious thought to them, shall always remain
perturbed and disturbed. Desires are never
fulfilled fully. They change faces and keep
calling again and again, keeping the man
running all the time.
No one has so far been able to satiate
his desires fully. One passes his whole life in
achieving the fulfilment of desires, only to
despair at last. The most essential teaching
of Gita is that only the one is happy, calm,
satiated, and blissful who has reduced and
restricted his desires to the adequate
minimum, who has reduced his necessities to
the bare essential, who has turned himself
from outward to the inward, who has