Whenever there is a sense of individuality, personality, or a separateness, you may have so many wants. You want to see a movie, you want to hear music, you want to play, you want to have sex, you want to eat fancy foods, you want to consume intoxicants, but when that sense of separateness is not there, when you are one with the totality, these things are not desired. And spirituality or what you call 'religion' is mainly to understand this: that you don't require anything, you are part of the totality, or reality. When you grasp that, you don't have any of these needs. But so long as you are separate from things, you need everything.
To exist as a separate individual constitutes the entire problem. |