A Never ending War

Which is the Longest war of Human race?

The moment this question is put forth, we peep into the History and come up with answers like Persian war, World war-I, world war-II, Vietnam war, Indo-Pak war etc. We tend to forget the fact that wars are not just the one externally fought with swords & knife, but can also be internal between two powerful creations of God, “Brain and Heart”. Yes It’s the war between Brain and the Heart, which is the longest war being fought since the evolution of mankind, in fact a never ending one. Our external desires get satisfied if the Brain wins & internal desires get satisfied if the Heart Wins. Battle field is nothing but our Body and often we underestimate the effects of the war and how much damage it does to the "Battle field". Consider a case where you desire to buy a new mobile and your mind says “go for it” but Heart says “Don go for it”. If your mind wins, you’ll have that momentary pleasure of holding the new mobile in your hand, but the question is for how long this pleasure exists. Until you see a better mobile? Or until you realize the fact that you have wasted so much money for your requirement? So what next? New stress occupies your mind. Now consider the other possibility of your Heart winning the battle. No new mobile in Hand and You can console yourself saying that you saved a few dollars. But the desire raises again on seeing the same mobile in someone else's hand. And, the Battle begins again.

Children and Yogis are exceptions. For a child, both the brain and Heart thinks in the same way, so if they wish to attain something, they attain it and get satisfied. A yogi is desire-less and hence not affected by the war. Why do most of the people prefer to become a child again, only for the same reason. They are not willing to leave their desires, at least by becoming child-like, they can feel satisfied.So which is the basic culprit, Desire? Or Dissatisfaction?. This question was rolling in my mind for a very long time, and I was trying to find out an answer for the the same. I am tabulating my observation based on various experiments I conducted on myself.

Desiring is not wrong. You are what you desire. Desires help you set a goal and achieve it.  Now if you had achieved what you desired, you should feel satisfied, but, truth is you are still dissatisfied. The reason is, your desire goes to the next level (over desire). And Your need never ends. You toil hard and harder and forget to enjoy life, and the war goes on. This is where you have to act Smart. Once your desire is satisfied, instead of looking on extending your desire on the same thing, desire for something different just like a child. So you can attain satisfaction on that particular desire completely.

I explained everything said above to one of my colleague, when he said he wish to become child again. I was so happy to see him listening to my lecture intensely and asked him at the end, “Did you get any message out of what I said?” He pumped up saying “ Yes Boss, I understood one thing that Electronics and Wife are the same, you can never be satisfied with what you have”. I silently left the place as my wife was there with me during all this discussion :)