Desire

By Munnan

- If you desire to choose something, 

    Choose but good deeds sincerely; [1]

- If you desire to control something, 

    Control your wagging tongue truly; [2]

- If you desire to count something, 

    Count your life’s wrongdoings fully; [3]

- If you desire to do something, 

    Spread Lord’s sayings earnestly; [4]

- If you desire to drink something, 

    Drink the Love Of Devine entirely; [5]

- If you desire to fight something, 

    Fight your anger ever diligently; [6]

- If you desire to give something, 

    Give to the downtrodden surely; [7]

- If you desire to grow something, 

    Grow your knowledge unendingly; [8]

- If you desire to imbibe something, 

    Imbibe your parent’s teaching wholly; [9]

- If you desire to keep something, 

    Keep the Lord’s knowledge faithfully; [10]

- If you desire to kill something, 

    Kill knowledge righteous's enemy; [11]

- If you desire to know something, 

    Know the path of the Almighty; [12]

- If you desire to leave something, 

    Leave your ego – the hurdle clearly; [13]

- If you desire to meet something, 

    Meet people with knowledge openly; [14]

- If you desire to remove something, 

    Remove all your bad company; [15]

- If you desire to run from something, 

    Run from the devotion’s enemy; [16]

- If you desire to search something, 

    Search for good people genuinely; [17]

- If you desire to see something, 

    See your wrong doings open-mindedly; [18]

- If you desire to speak something, 

    Speak in a manner most softly; [19]

- If you desire to stop something, 

    Stop unrestrained desires earnestly; [20]

- If you desire to take something, 

    Take the pains of others totally; [21]

- If you desire to weigh something, 

    Weigh your shortcoming simply; [22]

- If you desire to be happy, 

    Give happiness to others selflessly; [23]

- If you aspire to the very Divinity,

    Relinquish all desires absolutely. [24]

© Munindra Misra