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    Coordinate dharma, artha, kama and moksha for fulfillment

    Dharma is the nature: The body has its nature. If the body wants to sleep you have to provide it with rest. But, what do we do if the body wants to sleep?

    Coordinate dharma, artha, kama and moksha for fulfillment
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    Sri Sri Ravishankar

    Chennai

    We put on the television because of an interesting movie. We are going against the body. Dharma , the body has its demands. Artha is the means,  kama is the desire and mok sha is the release from the desire. 

    Suppose the body has a desire to eat and even though you have eaten, the desire has not vanished. Your stomach is full, but the mind wants you to eat. So the desire to eat still remains. Can you relate to this situation? This is where moksha comes in. Moksha means release from the desire.  

    If there is no co-ordination between these four faculties, then life will be a total chaos. When there is coordination between the four faculties, the desire and the nature are coordinated. The means and fulfillment are coordinated. Liberation can be taken to mean fulfillment. Let me illustrate with a story. Once there was a potter who made many pots. He took much time in making them, making each pot artistically and even painting some of them. He put them all in a basket to take to the market. It was quite some distance to the place. Usually the mind does not keep quiet. The potter started daydreaming as he was walking along. He began to make various plans what he would do with the money that he would earn by selling the pots. He imagined that he would become a millionaire and that his friends would respect him a lot. He would give them a lot of money and he would be able to just relax and lean on a chair doing nothing. During this day-dreaming, he dropped both his hands and all the pots fell down and were shattered. He did not even reach the marketplace. There was no coordination between all four – fulfillment, desire, means, and one’s very nature and this creates problems. 

    — The writer is the founder of Art of  Living Foundation  and  can be reached   www.artofliving.org

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