4.02 Desire Poem by Munindra (Munnan) Misra

- If you desire to choose something,
Choose but good deeds sincerely; [1]

- If you desire to control something,
Control your wagging tongue truly; [2]

- If you desire to count something,
Count your life's wrongdoings fully; [3]

- If you desire to do something,
Spread Lord's sayings earnestly; [4]

- If you desire to drink something,
Drink the Love Of Devine entirely; [5]

- If you desire to fight something,
Fight your anger ever diligently; [6]

- If you desire to give something,
Give to the downtrodden surely; [7]

- If you desire to grow something,
Grow your knowledge unendingly; [8]

- If you desire to imbibe something,
Imbibe your parent's teaching wholly; [9]

- If you desire to keep something,
Keep the Lord's knowledge faithfully; [10]

- If you desire to kill something,
Kill knowledge righteous's enemy; [11]

- If you desire to know something,
Know the path of the Almighty; [12]

- If you desire to leave something,
Leave your ego - the hurdle clearly; [13]

- If you desire to meet something,
Meet people with knowledge openly; [14]

- If you desire to remove something,
Remove all your bad company; [15]

- If you desire to run from something,
Run from the devotion's enemy; [16]

- If you desire to search something,
Search for good people genuinely; [17]

- If you desire to see something,
See your wrong doings open-mindedly; [18]

- If you desire to speak something,
Speak in a manner most softly; [19]

- If you desire to stop something,
Stop unrestrained desires earnestly; [20]

- If you desire to take something,
Take the pains of others totally; [21]

- If you desire to weigh something,
Weigh your shortcoming simply; [22]

- If you desire to be happy,
Give happiness to others selflessly; [23]

- If you aspire to the very Divinity,
Relinquish all desires absolutely. [24]
© Munindra Misra