|| Shri Hari ||

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We have six ‘darshan shastras’.  Patanjali Yogdarshan is one of them.  It is said in it  ‘हेय दुःखमनागतम्’ (२ । १६) ‒  The pain and sorrow that has not come yet,  but there is a possibility of it coming,  that sorrow can be renounced.   In other words we can be saved from that sorrow !   What can be done about the pain and sorrow that we have already suffered ?    The pain that we are experiencing right now,  on enduring it,  it will come to an end.   This human body has been received to be save from such suffering.   In this human body,  if we remain vigilant,  if we conduct ourselves properly,  and live reputably within limits,  then moving forward,  there will not be any sorrow.    Your current position is very good to be saved from the pain and suffering that is coming your way.   Now it is very essential that you be exceptionally careful.   Those who live outside in householder life,  and consider themselves to be free,  for them too, it is very essential to be extremely careful.  Without being careful, negligence, laziness,  various ‘tamo gunas’ (modes of inertia) and related tendencies will not go away.   Violence, negligence,  laziness,   uselessly wasting away time is a very wrong.      Therefore,  it is a sensible thing for you to put all your time in the best work.  

For every person,  whether a ‘sadhu’  or a householder,  whether a brother,  or a sister,  whether educated or not,  I continue to say these four points,  time and again.  Put these points to use,  then it will be very beneficial,   life will be purified.   These four points are like this ‒

(1) First and the foremost, is the issue of ‘Time’.  Whatever time we have,  that time should be put to use in the best of best work.   Do not waste any time.   The time that goes away in playing cards, games,  cinema,  dramas,  sports (hockey,  cricket and various other games),  is being wasted away.    Neither do you attain God from those activities,  nor do you get any worldly gains from it.   Yes,  there are certain sports,  that excercize the body, make it healthy;  but  mostly it is futile waste of time.   By watching movies the eyes also get spoilt,   money is wasted,  time is ruined,   and character also becomes bad.  Life is ruined in such playing-entertainment etc.  

The time that we have received is limited,  it is not unlimited.  Just as in a mechanical watch,  the number of rounds that it is wound,   that much the watch will tick away.   The moment the spring is fully unwound,  the watch will stop working.   In the same way, our internal clock in the form of life-breaths is ticking away.   The moment the life breaths are over,  one has to die.   Beyond that point no one can live.   It is not in one’s hand, that with one’s strength,  entitlement,  abilities,  knowledge one will be able to continue to stay alive.  Those life-breaths if they are used in useless work,  in committing sin,  in addictions and vices,  then this is great foolishness !

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

|| Shri Hari ||

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This meter is placed from the neck to the head.    As we see,  hear,  taste,  touch, smell,  it is all recorded in the meter.   When a thought arises in the mind to harm someone,  then that too is recorded in the meter.   Those who are watchmen in  the prison,  have a device around their neck.   Anytime they fall asleep,  it gets recorded in the device,   and accordingly appropriate arrangements will be made for punishment and reward.  They will not ask that how much and what was done ?  There is no need to ask these things at all.  They themselves can see everything that was recorded.  Here in order to get someone to tell the truth,  they have to be first made unconscious,  and in that unconscious state,  they reveal  the truth from the impressions that are left on their mind.  But, there is this wonderful device within,  in which there is no need to talk !  The inner feelings and sentiments can be known on their own;  and accordingly the favorable and unfavorable situations come in one’s life.  

The favorable situations are not as beneficial as the unfavorable situations.  Enjoyment of pleasures appears good,  but the result is not so good.   Pleasures enjoyed,  exhaust your virtues bank,  and one’s habit are ruined,  whereby,  the desire to enjoy pleasures once again arises.   The desire to enjoy pleasures, is the root of sins.   Arjun asked,  Maharaj,  this man does not wish to commit sins, then too,  who is it that forcefully makes him commit sins ?   (Gita 3/36) .  God said,  the cause of sins is desire for pleasure and hoarding.   The more sense enjoyments that a man indulges in, the desire for these pleasures will increase.    That desire itself will make him commit sins.   By indulging and enjoying sense pleasures, the previous virtues are destroyed,  and with the desire for enjoying sense pleasures,   the seed of sins are sown,  by which he becomes a sinner.   Therefore,  there is no benefit in enjoyment of pleasures.   But there is significant benefit in suffering pain -  on one hand, the old sins are wiped out,   and on another,  from the sense enjoyments it is revealed that we have done these things for pleasures,  due to which we have to suffer pain.   Therefore,  on having such sentiments, that henceforth we will not commit any sins ‒  man is purified.

It has been seen that when some person becomes very ill, then on coming out of that illness,  his mind-intellect are purified.  This can be recognized,  by putting forth some talks pertaining to God,  stories of devotees of God in front of him,  and on listening to these,  he has an outpouring of emotions,  he begins to cry.  He finds the tales of God very dear.   Now,  what is the reason behind this ?  The suffering during the illness,  cleansed the inner-senses,  and purified him.   Love of God manifests in his mind-intellect etc.  that are purified  !    Therefore you all too will become pure from undergoing this prison term.   While staying here,  let your feelings, sentiments and intentions be good.   The outcome of this,  is very great for you.   You are more fortunate compared to those who enjoy pleasures and roam around in freedom.     

 

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

|| Shri Hari ||

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You are not even required to speak a lot.   Your officers, have to command,  therefore they are required to speak;  but you are not required to speak much of anything.   Therefore you can do Naam Japa in an exceptional manner.  Every few minutes,   call out ‘ O’  Lord !   Let me never forget you;   O’  Lord ! May I develop Love for your Lotus Feet !’ ‒ in this manner,  continue to pray to the Lord,  and do ‘Naam Japa’.   

Be a well-wisher of all, from the heart.   Do not wish bad of anyone.   Do not even wish ill of even the one who had filed a lawsuit against you,  and got you imprisoned;   because he has done so, to cleanse you off your sins.   If you are purified,  then you will not need to take birth time and again,  nor will you need to go to prison.    Staying in a mother’s womb is a very heavy duty prison.   A ‘jiva’  encounters a lot of difficult over there,  he suffers a lot;  but time and again he has to go back there, due to sins.   Therefore,  if the ‘kaaran’  (instrument of action) is destroyed, then the ‘kaarya’ (action) will be wiped out on its own   ‒‘मूलाभावे कुतः शाखा ।’   When the root itself is cut off,  then how will the branches come ?   Therefore,  one should never engage in sins,  injustice,  bad conduct,  etc.   neither should one steal, rob,  or harm anyone.    He who causes pain to others with mind, body, and speech, will have to suffer -  this is the truth.   

As is the seed,  so is the tree,  and with that tree,  so will come the same seed.   In the same way, he who causes pain to others,  he will have to suffer.    By causing pain to others whether one gets pleasures,  by snatching away someone’s wealth, by beating others whether one becomes rich at present, whether on becomes pleased right now,  but in the end,  one will have to suffer, you cannot escape it.   There is a lot of justice in the Lord’s kingdom,  there is fairness.  Here,  by lying, cheating too,  a man can escape punishment,  but in God’s kingdom, you cannot be saved.   there you will not be able to get false witnesses,  and you will not get defense lawyers either.   There you will have to bear punishment according to the sins that are committed.   

All of you, pay some attention.   Just as a fan runs,  a light bulb lights up,   a speaker amplifies the sound -  all this is taking place due to electricity.   When the representative of the electric company comes to your house,  he does not ask you how much electricity you all have used up,  how did you do so,  when did you do so ?  The meter is installed,  and simply by looking at the meter,  he determines your bill and invoices you for the number of units of electricity consumed.   That is the amount you owe him.  In the same way,  we all have a meter within us.   

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

|| Shri Hari ||

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While living here,  learn how to conduct yourself properly.   Learn to obey other’s instructions -  this is a way to develop and improve.   you pay attention.   Subjected to the influences of evil men,  one suffers;  but he who is influenced by good men,  becomes independent and gains happiness.  Those that have become highly learned,   were living under the guidance of highly scholarly men,  from a very young age.   All those that have become saints-great souls,  they were serving their Gurus,  and remaining subservient,  they became great souls.   At a very young age, great men of a very high caliber,  accepted staying away from their family.   Brothers,   subordination under  gentlemen and well-wishers,   is the kind to give self-sufficiency.   But those who come under the sway of the mind and senses,  they remain ever dependent.   Time and again they have to go to hell and suffer many hardships.   Therefore,  keeping the mind and senses under control,  one should become engaged in good work.   Coming under the sway of the pleasures of the senses and mind,  appears as freedom right now,  but further down the road,  it will lead to dependence and subordination -  this is also dependence in independence.   Gentlemen are independent even in dependence.  

Learn good conduct,   good qualities,  good sentiments and feelings.   Make your life ever pure.  This is a divine opportunity, for becoming pure;  because this place is not for becoming sinful,  rather it is for becoming pure.    

There is much glories of the Divine Name.   Eknathji,  Tukaramji etc  and all those who have become great saints-great men,   they have sung many glories of ‘Naam Japa’  (repeating the Divine Name of the Lord).   You all do that ‘Naam Japa’ and in doing so,  you are not dependent on anyone.   While doing work-business too you continue to repeat the Divine Name of the Lord.   Whether you say -  Ram,  Krishna,  Govind,  Vasudeva etc.  or Vithala-Vithala.   Whatever name of God appears dear to you,  repeat that Divine Name.   

The Names of God may be different,  but there is no difference in the outcome.   The Name that you are most inclined towards and interested in,  do japa of that Name.  There will be much gains in doing so.   Do Naam Japa attentively engaging your mind.  If the mind does not engage,  then too, get into such a habit,  that while doing work-business,  Naam Japa continues to take place.   

Saints have said ‒

हाथ काम मुख राम है,   हिरदै साँची प्रीत ।

दरिया गिरस्ती साध की, याही उत्तम रीत ॥

In this manner,  while living here,  repeat the Divine Name of the Lord,  then you too will become a saint.   Many great men had also suffered imprisonment for the independence of the country; but they had done so for ‘dharma’   (righteousness),  nor for sinful acts.   The editor of ‘Kalyaan’,  Shri Hanumanprasad Poddar too had stayed in jail, as a prisoner for civil rights.     While staying there,  he dispensed medicines and continued to do ‘bhajan-smaran’ (worship and remembrance of God).   He read approximately 2,000 books in the prison,  and practiced ‘naam japa’  (repeating the Divine Name of the Lord).  He used to do ‘Naam Japa’  using his fingers,  and for keeping a count,  he would make a line with a stick on the prison wall.   In this manner,  he did a lot of ‘Naam Japa’.  Therefore there is an excellent opportunity over here for ‘Naam Japa’.   

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

|| Shri Hari ||

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On enjoying worldly pleasures,  the merits are exhausted,  and our nature is spoilt,  and with it, the seeds of sin are sown.   But there is gain and only gain in unfavourable situations and circumstances,  there is no loss at all.   The unfavourable times, sorrows,  difficulties that one faces,  has the capability of destroying old sins, and it alerts one of future sins.   

The king is the mother and father of his subjects.  He wishes for the supreme welfare of his people.   It is for your good that you have been enrolled here (prison),  whereby no flaws remain in your life, and you become free of any faults.   You all must not misunderstand that you have become bound, due to being imprisoned.   Understand this place to be only a school.   Here activity based education and training is provided.   It is not a polluted place.  Lord Krishna took birth over here.  Therefore everyone calls the prison ‘birth place of Lord Krishna’.  Even on incarnating in a prison,  Lord Krishna became so great !  His teachings ‘Srimad Bhagavad Gita’  are revered even by foreigners.   If there is any learned person out there,  he will surely honour and respect the Gita.  

Here (in prison) you can progress immensely.   While living here, you must do good work,  conduct yourself properly.   Have the sentiments of serving everyone,  respect all,  try to make others happy.   Here you might be learning various other work-trade.   With that too,  you can benefit immensely.   With the education, knowledge and training, received here,  you can develop a particular skill,  and earn a livelihood in the future.   I am not familiar with the rules over here,  but I had visited another place on some work.   In Bikaner prison I had seen that there are many great things they make - blankets, bed-spreads,  rugs etc.  Such beautiful things they make,  which are even sent to foreign countries.    When Gangasingh was the king of Bikaner,   once he had visited England.   He has spent a lot of money to purchase a rug.  When he returned back to Bikaner,  he showed  the prison officer the rug and said that ‘See this rug,  see if you can have a similar one made over here.  I brought this rug back from England.’    On seeing the rug,  the officer said,  ‘O’  Providence,   this rug was made by this prison,  on going overseas,  it became very expensive.  See the emblem of our prison here.’     

Working here you may feel that you are in subordination and doing this work;  but if you learn these skills then this art, this knowledge, will make you skillful.   Wherever you go and live,  with this art and talent,  you can do some work.   You all come together, collaborate and tell the various wealthy businessmen, that we know how to do such and such work, then with their help,  you can really make this country progress and flourish.   

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

|| Shri Hari ||

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(A discourse given in the Nagpur Prison)

Until God Realization does not take place,  all ‘jivas’ (beings) are prisoners.   You all should not think that we are very lowly.   We are all children of God !   Just as you have come to this prison against your will,   you have not come here out of your own independent will,  in the same way,  we have all come to  this world on becoming dependent,  and after coming here, we are experiencing the fruits of our past deeds.  So long as a  man, subject to his ‘karmas’ (actions),  enjoys its fruit,  till then, he remains a prisoner.    

Human birth is the only birth,  in which one can realize the God,  the Supreme Reality.   We can become independent once and for all,  dependence will be wiped out entirely,  and for this itself this human body has been received.   In this, there is two kinds of sense experiences -  pleasure and pain.   Man thinks he has become independent,  while occupied in enjoying pleasures, and while suffering pain,  he thinks he has become dependent.   But this is a misunderstanding.   If we were independent in enjoyment of pleasures, then we would only enjoy pleasures and pleasure all the time,  and not suffer pain.  But this is not in our hands.  He has to undergo both pleasure and pain.   

There is one exceptional point in suffering pain ‒ In enjoyment of pleasures,  our merits are decremented,  but in undergoing pain,  our sins are destroyed !   You have come here to wipe out your sins.   Man is imprisoned due to some sin or the other taking place.   On staying in prison, till his prison time,  the sins are destroyed,  and when sins are wiped out,   he becomes purified.   Therefore,  now,  you, me and all of us should want to be free of pain and sorrows,  not to do any work  that is sinful,  unjust,  wrongful conduct, mis-demeanor and against scriptural injunctions.   You are getting an opportunity to learn this over here,  in the form of work.   

This prison is a school.   Here you get the education,  that henceforth,  I will not commit such sins.    The pain that one feels from all the dis-pleasures in world such as from illness, suffering great financial loss,  being insulted,  receiving criticism, that pain is for teaching, that sometime or the other we have sinned,  and this pain is the fruit of those sinful acts.  Therefore,  henceforth we will not commit any sin ‒  one must learn this lesson.   On suffering the consequences of past sinful deeds,  the sins are destroyed.  With the annihilation of sins,  one becomes pure, free of any blemishes.   

When the favorable situations come,  when money comes,  it is a payback for our virtuous deeds.   The unfavorable situations that come,   when man suffers financial losses,  someone dies,  when he falls sick ‒ it is all a fruit of sins.   Man goes to heaven, and enjoys the pleasures of his virtuous deeds.   With the enjoyment of pleasures,  the merits are decremented,  and once again he falls down to the  ‘mrutyulok’  (the abode of death - world).   ‒   

‘क्षीणे पुण्ये मर्त्यलोकं विशन्ति ।’ (गीता ९ । २१)  

Ksine punye martyalokam visanti  (Gita 9/21)  

Meaning:   Their merit is exhausted,  they return to the mortal world.

 

Sins are destroyed through experiencing adversities, and merits are destroyed through gratification of pleasures .  

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

|| Shri Hari ||

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Often times,  people are of the belief that one has to make a lot of effort  to realize that ‘tattva’ (Reality, Divinity);   one has to go and live in the forest,   do austerities,  undergo lot of difficulties,  then somewhere they can attain that ‘tattva’.  Such a presumption persists out there.   I too was of the same presumption.  But really speaking it is not so.   This work is easier than all the other worldly work that is out there.   It is not even that a householder cannot realize that ‘tattva’.   It is not so that an educated-learned man can attain this and an uneducated cannot;  a very strong man,  a man with great forbearance,  a highly tolerant person,  only can realize this,  and others cannot.  The sentiments behind this is that,  we all are entirely entitled to  realize that ‘tattva’ (Reality).   Let the pursuit,  let the aim be only one,  that we want to realize that ‘tattva’.  It is for realizing that ‘tattva’,  that we have received all the materials.   It is an exceptional rule in God’s kingdom that ‒ if there is a need, then all the appropriate means and tools will be made available.  Just as a man gets tired after speaking a lot,  and thereafter he becomes silent,  and after becoming silent,  in due time he once again gets the energy to speak.   While walking for a while,  one gets tired,  then after resting for sometime,  he once again gets the energy to walk.   Getting tired after  working all day,  when one sleeps at night,   then in the morning once again there is renewed energy.   It means that whatever work a man does,  on getting tired from that work,  without any effort,   free of any exertion,  he gets renewed energy and ability.   This is everyone’s experience.   You tell me,  on doing work,  all day,  when you get tired,  then what work do you do at night,  by which you are able to get energy in the morning once again ?   Simply by quietly laying down, you get the energy in the morning.  The deeper the sleep,  that much more energy you will acquire.   That power, that energy comes from God.   But with a little power,  do not become contented.  Do not become trapped in it,   then immense power can be realized.   That exceptional power,  that ‘Paramatma-tattva’ (Supreme Reality) can be realized by you,  we and everyone.   That ‘tattva’ that was available in ancient times,  has become ever more cut-price than before.   In Satya,  Treta and Dwapar yug (the three other eras),  people’s life spans were longer,   the intellect used to be very sharp,   abilities were far greater,  this attainment was difficult for them.   Just as for a older person,  it is difficult to get all kinds of favorable facilities;  but a child can easily get all kinds of facilities.  Even if the mother-father do not get food in a timely manner,  then too, they make the appropriate arrangements for the child;  because he is helpless.  In the same way,  the extent to which we are helpless,  that much help and abilities we get from God.  Not only that,  we get more facilities and benefits than our capabilities.   Just as,  the smaller the child,   the more amenities, privileges, concessions etc.  he will get.    

Let our want, inner yearning, longing,  hunger, thirst be powerful and vehemently awakened.  But this will be awakened ,  when spiritually, we are not contented with what we have received.   Because we can never be satisfied with perishable things.   If we rise above the perishable,  and awaken the intense yearning to realize the ‘avinashi-tattva’  (imperishable reality),  then, it will be realized.  

Narayan ! Narayan !! Narayan !!!

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

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When the aim is determinate and fixed,  it is then only these spiritual talks will be understood.   Therefore,  complete gain will be when we will become engaged and turn towards our supreme good.   For this,  first and the foremost one must have faith that there is such a gain, which every man can attain.   The attainment of that can be possible in this life-time itself,  this is the absolute truth.   Because as many Rishis-Munis,  great souls,  ascetics,  renunciates,  liberated souls, and devotees of God that have come about,  they have all attained this immense gain.  When all of mankind can realize that Divinity,  then why can’t we too not realize it ?  If you fix your aim to realize That Divinity,  then I will share with you other points.   Then you will surely understand those points,  and will move forward.  In this there is no doubt.   

You must not think that I am a householder,  I am bound in family life,  how will I realize that ‘tattva’  (Divinity) etc.   It is my belief,  that you are not so incapable,  you are not so undeserving,  you are not unentitled,  that you cannot realize that ‘tattva’ (Divinity).    All beings can realize that ‘tattva’.  I have come across such transcendental measures from saints,  by which all of mankind can attain their supreme good, they can be emancipated.   In this there is no doubt.  Only you have to turn towards it, become inclined towards it, have your sight on it, that there is such ‘tattva’  (Divinity).   

You are stalled by little pleasure, by little gains ‒ that is the mistake.  Because with partial gains,  you cannot be completed satiated,  and you  continue to experience pain,  and the thought of entirely rising above the mundane does not stay firm.   Getting trapped in a little greed,  one becomes strayed from their path,  this is the mistake.   Correct this mistake.  If the hunger for the immense gain is awakened,  then it is so intense, that without its fulfillment,  one is restless,  thereafter, its realization is possible.  But as long as the aim, the goal  is not decided,  till then even on telling, one will not grasp it very well.  It will also not appeal to you,  without any form of doubting, because,  really speaking you are not inclined toward it,  then how will it appeal to you ?  

Undoubtedly, all of you know these talks,  that man is not satisfied with whatever situation-circumstance that he has received,  and he also does not feel fulfillment in it.   He does not feel sufficiency with, the amount of money - wealth that he has received,  rather there remains a desire that may he receive more and more.   Man is not entirely satisfied, with the amount of honor, respect, reverence,  greatness he has received,  the extent of good health (free of disease) that he has received,   there remains an ongoing desire that ‘may he get more and more’.    In this manner,  all continue to experience a shortage of something or the other.  When there is some shortage (something lacking), then there is such a thing out there to fulfill that shortage.   Everyone can attain, and many have attained such a state, where there is no shortage whatsoever.    Then why will we not attain such a state ?   We too can realize that ‘tattva’.    This is the truth.   Only let the us have a determinate thought that how should we attain that ‘tattva’ ?  Let us simply have an intense, single-pointed  intent that how can I attain that ‘tattva’ ?

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‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji

|| Shri Hari ||

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God says  ‒

पूर्वेषामपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छेदात् ।   (पातञ्जलयोगदर्शन १ । २६)

`puruesamopi guruh kalenaanavachchhedat' (Patanjala yoga darsana -1/26)

Meaning :   God is the preceptor of all those who were born previously, because He is not hindered by time.

Time (death)  devours everyone,   that is, in due time everything is destroyed.  But That Paramatma (God) is such that He remains eternally as-is.   Man is an ‘ansh’ (fragment) of That Lord only.   But becoming disinclined towards his ‘anshi’  (God),   he has become inclined towards the perishable,  therefore,  time and again he continues to suffer.   Man has a greed for the pleasures of life,  that in howsoever way,   may I gain pleasures,  but  often times, he only gets pain.   He never get total pleasures,  nor total favourableness.   Sometimes pleasure and sometimes pain;   sometimes favourable times,  sometimes unfavorable times;   sometimes honor and sometimes dishonor;  sometimes criticism,  sometimes praise ‒ these two states come and go,  and man continues to be trapped and bound in these only.   One has to realize the real ‘tattva’ (Divinity), and  rise above these two pairs of opposites.   Human body has been received for this purpose only,  and with this human body itself one can realize that ‘tattva’ (Divinity,  Essence).   There is no doubt about it.   Just as where there is hunger,  there is such a thing as food to eat,  as where there is thirst,  there is water to drink,  similarly,  where there is desire to attain that infinite bliss,  then there is such infinite bliss that exists.   If there was not such a thing as infinite bliss, then we would have been satisfied by the amount of pleasure that we have gain;  but we are not satisfied with it.   We are not satisfied with the amount of money we have acquired,  the amount of honor that we have received,  the amount of respect we have attained,  the life-span that we have received.   Rather  ‘may I acquire more,  and more’  ‒ such desire continues to persist.  Hence,  there is such a state,  on attaining which,  there is no desire to acquire anymore.   

Gita says ‒

यं लब्ध्वा चापरं लाभ   मन्यते नाधिक ततः ।

यस्मिन्स्थितो न दुःखेन गुरुणापि विचाल्यते ॥

                                                        (६ । २२)

Yam labdhvaa chaaparam laabham manyate naadhikam tatah |

Yasmin sthito na dukhen gurunaapi vichaalyate || (Gita 6/22)

Meaning:   Having gained which state he does not reckon any other gain greater than that, and wherein established, he is not shaken even by the greatest affliction. (Gita 6/22).

Also it means that on gaining which there remains no desire for more gains.   Man becomes satiated once and for all.  There remains not even the slightest need for anything whatsoever.  That in which there is no need for food, nor water, nor name-fame,  nor rest-relaxation,  nor sense enjoyments;  such contentment,  such gratification,  such bliss can be realized by us.   This human birth has been attained for the realization of this only.   Until the aim to realize this bliss is not established, till then,  man does not come to his proper senses.

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji