2 Ways of reducing desire based suffering/-attachment, astral glamor and illusion, and unnecessary possessions.
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Basic needs vs excess desire; conscious utilization of energy
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Conscious directing of desire.
Desire can at conscious will be directed inward and upward …. towards union with the ´Higher Self ´and Source.
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Conscious Observation, awareness and the qualitative effects of such. Observing the one who has desires, observing the one who seeks have desires forfilled on perishable phenomenas and objects.
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Kama manas ( kāma, “desire” + manas, “mind” )
“ When man’s energy flows outwards towards external objects of desire, this energy works in a less subtle order of matter than the mental, in that of the astral world. What is called his desire-body is composed of this matter ; the astral body , This desire (or astral) body gives rise to a second class of entities, similar in their general constitution to the thought-forms already described, but limited to the astral plane, and generated by the mind under the dominion of the animal nature.These are caused by the activity of the lower mind, throwing itself out through the astral body—the activity of Kâma-Manas, or the mind dominated by desire. “
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– A Besant
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