Someone pointed out: without desire or ambition one becomes a vegetable and do not remain a human being. If one classifies human beings as those creatures which have desires, then the desireless creature is not a human being. Everyone would have to agree with him, given his definition. But does that mean that desireless creatures are vegetables? No, because if vegetables are desireless then, so are the rocky mountains fish. So a desireless entity maybe a fish also. We seldom think logically but think that we are great at logic.
Does vegetable mean useless or worthless? Vegetables are useful to human beings. If Krishna who spoke Gita to Arjun was desireless, he was a vegetable and yet useful to Arjun, a human being with desire.
Are not desires common to all beings. The desires work independently through the Gunas in the body cells, DNAs, RNAs, etc. Animals show desires. Vegetables also have desires to grow operating through the working of their cells when live
and deire to get rotten sometime or when cut out from plants for human and animal food intake. Human beings with desires and ambitions are therefore some from of animals and vegetables.
What may distinguishes a human from animal or vegetble is that the human has also cells inside that can work against desire. The human being often does not act against one kind of desire - like to enjoy sex or food or comfort and allow the desire to know the Creaor, the Creation and the creative proces. Those who have such strong desires to know may become scientists, and, when they give up all sensual desires but the only desire that remains is to know the Creator, they become
superhuman beings. And, when such superhuman beings realize the god, they cease to have any more desire. They do everything without beng connected to desire. They become one with the Creator and God. Vegetables do not
become one with the God, nor do animals.
Try being vegetable: a human would not become an attractive vegetable. By giving up desires and ambitions, a human being will become more attractive to other human beings and will enjoy greater peace and many other things (that other human beings desire and may or may not get fulfilled) without desiring them.
The oint is not whether a person without desire is a vegetable or animal. The point is why to pursue a goal of becoming desireless? Onle very small percentage of population try to become desireless for the rest of their lives. Most rate is a person who has given up all desires. Let me see one and find out if such a person is more like vegetables or something better than a human being. I do not think that I will ever get such a opportunity to be near or in the company of a desireless person.
Gita is a science. It defines a learned and wise man as one who strive to be always in the path of Yoga to realize the Self or God. Gita defines Salvation as the state of a human being who is ego-less,desire-less and merged in equanility and therefore totally unaffected by whatever goes on his body or the external environment.
How to achieve that State? Should achieving that State desirable? Can everyone achieve that State? These are the questions Gita seeks scientific answers to. But these issues need to be exlplored in detail.
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