When your Craving Loses.
We think giving something up for a short while means we’ve conquered it. But if your mind is still stuck on it, have you really given it up? That’s not freedom, that’s just holding your breath.
People leave non-veg during Sawan and then jump back to it the moment Sawan ends. What’s the use of that? Even when they don’t touch it, their thoughts are filled with it. Same with alcohol. You can stop for a week, a month, even a year but if your mind is secretly drinking it, you’re still trapped.
The real mistake is thinking denial is the same as detachment. Denial is pushing it away while still burning for it. Detachment is when you genuinely lose interest, when it no longer has power over you. And sometimes, you can’t force that
you have to indulge until the interest itself fades, until the attachment drops on its own, like a ripe fruit falling off the tree.
Rules, rituals, restrictions, they can hold you back for a time, but they can’t erase desire. Only when the pull itself dies down does freedom begin.
Everyone has something, for some it’s food, for others alcohol, relationships, money, or validation. Doesn’t matter what it is. What matters is whether it controls you, or you’ve grown beyond it.
True freedom is quiet. It’s when you don’t have to fight it anymore, because the craving itself has left you. That’s when you’re really free.
Bhairavakalike Namostute🌺
Jai Maa🙏
-Manasa Vaishnavi
- By Manasa Vaishnavi Shisya of Gurudev Shri Praveen Radhakrishnan