Why Do None of Our Desires Come True?

We are under a delusory idea that thought is an idle, impotent happening, merely within ourselves. In fact, thought has godly powers. As each thought sweeps across the mind, its secret potency rises up in front of us as an agent willing and ready to manifest that thought as a reality around us. This is something like the mysterious genie in ‘Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp’. A thousandfold powerful magnanimous and adorable is the genie of the mind that rises in us, a ready and willing slave to execute our thought commands.The adorable spirit of thought, the genie of the mind rises up in front of us as it were, with each desire that whistles through our mental plane! With the ending of the thought, the genie, with faithful anxiety and sincerity, turns upon his heels to sail forth to execute the order given by man’s conscious mind.But alas! Ere the Spirit could take the first step to rush out on his errand, another thought wave of desire has risen up in the inner world calling the genie back to take more orders; and at the command of the mind it revolves round its heels again to face its master..Sad indeed is the plight of this godly agent, the presiding deity of the human mind! This creature of all-might, and all-power is made, under our own confusing commands and contradictory orders, to stand and whirl like a top, each half of the circle representing a definite command given and the other half showing a definite but vain attempt made by the Spirit at its execution! But the desire power does not allow it any chance at all to fulfil itself!If you start from your home to the office and on your way allow yourself to be a slave to your own indecisions and thus start walking forward (as the thought of duty calls you office-wards) and backward (when the thought of the joys of idle sleep pass through your mind) then, even late at night you shall still be walking, having reached neither the office nor the home!Yoga viewed in this sense is a technique of controlling, conserving, preserving and directing the mental dynamism through a chosen channel of application. If a single pointed mind can wish for anything to the exclusion of any of its contending thoughts or desires, it shall at once be fulfilled.