🌸 Swar Vandana Reflections – Saanjh Part 2 – Episode 10: Desire Sutra – How Desires are born
Life was always meant to be simple — just enough survival to keep us steady, and a vast canvas for the spirit to express itself. Ideally, only 20% survival and 80% spirit. But in the last few decades, survival has started consuming almost everything, leaving the spirit gasping for space. When the spirit is squeezed, negative emotions take root.
In today’s Swar Vandana, we remembered that the spirit can be nurtured with two gentle practices.
The first is to honor your bucket list. Not as a faraway dream but as a living reminder of why you came to this Earth. Maybe it’s three days of rest somewhere, maybe it’s a dish you’ve always wanted to taste, or maybe it’s the longing to travel the world. Whatever it is — never let disappointment shadow your bucket list. Keep it alive, because it keeps your spirit alive.
The second is to open yourself to fantasy. For many, especially those struggling with infertility, the real block is the inability to imagine, to dream. When fantasy is locked away, life gets stuck. But when you reopen that door, healing flows. Fantasy isn’t escape — it is your spirit seeking to breathe.
And then, there is pain — often feared, often avoided. But pain, if embraced, becomes the doorway to desire. Beneath hopelessness lies pain, and beneath pain lies the seed of new desire. If heartbreak comes, don’t label it as rejection. Let yourself feel the pain and still remain in love — that is how desire sutra awakens.
This week, try this gentle practice:
- Write down three things for your bucket list.
- Allow yourself one fantasy to stay alive.
- Reflect on a painful memory, and instead of rejection, let it be a seed of renewal.
Let us not live half-lives chained to survival. Let us live as the spirit intended — open, connected, and expressive.
