Nature of thought and desire: karma and kAma

Nature of thought and desire. In the external world, one acknowledges that desire (kAma)  too is the Self arising as thought due to rajas. It arises as BrahmA as the first primeval thought, it sustains as viShNu, is destroyed as shiva and returns to Consciousness. The trimUrti (these three forms of Consciousness) are nitya jnAnis (eternally established in the Truth) and are unchanged by the thoughts themselves. From the viewpoint of the jIva, due to individuation, only a limited sense of satisfaction is obtained from each thought, and the mind of the jIva is affected by the outcome of the thought. If the senses are pleased and the ego is stroked, the thought is counted as satisfactory or joyous. On the contrary, if the senses or ego are displeased then there is no such satisfaction.

Over yugas and kalpas and in each second, in each Om, this cycle is going on. So Om indeed is everything.

As mind purifies it learns to accept pleasant experience as for bhogam (experience) not bandham (bondage) and seemingly unpleasant experience and obstacles as reminders to reduce desire (kama) through discrimination and cultivation of dispassion (vairAgyam). The world is not denied in this approach, but it is not productive of the ultimate bliss.