When to Follow Personal Desires

"If staying in the infinite brings complete happiness with no need for anything, when do we follow personal desires – to build a business, learn a language, have a child? How do we balance abiding in being with pursuing individual goals? Rupert says: ‘You follow those desires when their impulse is impersonal – when they come from love or understanding. The expression is by definition personal because it comes through your particular body-mind, but the impulse arises in service of love rather than a personal self. There’s a story of Muhammad, who once wanted to be a famous orator for egoic reasons. After recognising God’s being as his own, he lost all desire to do anything. But God said: you developed those skills – now I’m going to use you to speak about me. So, the skills remained but were no longer used in service of the ego. They were used in service of God’s love and understanding.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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