One wish leads to another; one bond brings about ten others. You marry; you get a daughter who has to be given in marriage; you struggle to finish your education; you struggle to finish your son s education; he struggles to finish his son s. Thus it goes on, like a never-ending chain. ‘This one wish if fulfilled will be enough, I won t ask for anything more’, you say; but I know you will come and ask for something else, which is the consequence of that wish.
It is in the very nature of human desire; for, the joy one gets through its satisfaction is imperfect, limited, temporary, pregnant with grief. You sow bitter seeds and pray for a harvest of sweetness. You wail over the soil, the plant, the rain. What can they do? The seeds themselves are diseased, defective. (SSS Vol.5)
There is only one wish fit to be entertained by the Sadhaka, and that is the realisation of the Lord, Ishvara Sakshatkara. There is no room in the mind for any other wish. That is why Kunti Devi prayed thus to Lord Krishna; ‘Let us have always, O Jagadguru, distress and misery, if only You grant us Your Darshan, the Darshan which destroys rebirth’. (Prema Vahini, p. 42)
