Whoever desires and clings to desires is reborn again and again because of those desires. But for one whose desires are wholly fulfilled, whose Self has been perfected, all desires dissolve right here.
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Source
- Tradition
- Hindu
- Source text
- Mundaka Upanishad
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- Mundaka Upanishad
- Verse / page
- MuU.3.2.2
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- LiberationDesireRebirth
Same theme, different voices
The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.
So long as this soul does not know its real destination while dwelling in the body, it is not going to be liberated from the cycle of births and deaths. There is only one way to get rid of this wandering and that is to realise God while the human body is still there.