Desire is the Fire that Burns the Vessel which Holds It

Desire is a fire that burns the vessel that holds it.(essay) Ans. A boy named shrilluvallur in kerala's district of kottayam committed suicide on the refusing the demand of an i phone 17 pro. Owing to his family's humble background his father refused to entertain his demand for an i phone.This inner desire made him shortsighted as to not able to guage the finacial bearings of his family. Ardenly sticking onto his demand he chose the way of unthinkable for his family-suicide. Truly,desire when become unrestraint burns the very vessel which ignited the fire.

Our topic highlights the dysfunctional aspect of desire that an indiviual bear burnt of. For this we must understand what desire refers to? Desire in layman terms means the feeling of wanting something. That "something" can range from materialistic wants to metaphysical wants like supernatural ambitions. As emile durkheim puts it,desire can be satisfied only when its limited. Unlimited desire often leads to comparing ourselves with our companion or co existants of society. In such situation the holder of such desire at times become hopeless as he constantly tries to draw constant between his achivements and that of others. The recent trend of increasing consumerism owing to globalisation is an example how desire can lead to excessive consumeristic culture in our society. The formation of desire is often stems due to our ambitions to achieve something in life. And if one fails to achieve it he /she thinks of him/her as a marginal man. He succumbs to hopelessness where he think none of his desire gets fulfied. This was seen in russia post disntegration of ussr. Its citizen when exposed to the realm of market competetion was so overwhemled by the choices they percieve that incidences of suicide grew excessively . In other words it burned the very vessel which held the fire of desire within it

. Desire can also be explained from metaphysical perspective. Catholics are more integreted with religious practices owing to their desire to achieve unification with the omnipotent all knowing supreme being. Acts of fulfilling desire often leads to fundamentalism as witnessed in middle eastern countries of Iraq and syria. The rise of fundamental groups like ISIS and taliban are acceptance to that fact that desire to form a pan global religion and to persecute all those who oppose their "only god" is the indication that unregulated desire without rational thinking and logics lead to destruction of human rights and lives. In turn it destablized the whole region accompanied by usa and nato invasion where both suffered heavy casualties. Perhaps the largest victims were innocent civilians inhabitating there. It costed the social fabric and cohesion required to uphold a just and fair society . It burned the vessel ,(here the fundamentals and their society) from within. The desire of national development by indiscriminate destruction of enviornment and wilflife will ultimately lay heavy prices on the very society/country itself which had on first place decided to go with the act. The easter island hypothethis about how its inhabitants destroyed the forest for wooden logs to tranport the rock face architectures is an example. With subsequent destruction of forest, soil erosion became unchecked thus leading to crop failure. As per historians of university of columbia , the population of that island plummeted from 30000 to 3000 within a century or so. Their uncontrollable desire driven by superstition of wellbeing led them to pay the price with their own population

. We must learn that to control desire is one of the greatest insights an individual can learn. Buddhism gives us ways on how to survive with minimal resouces and shed all our excess desire . As gautam buddha argued desire is only material and not universal . Desire keeps on changing with time and leading men into viscious cycle of running one after another. In this way he becomes ignorant of his actual motive of his life. Karl marx also argued that man is a pertually dissatisfied being. Once a set of satisfaction get fullfilled ,new sets arise. This gives rise to commodity fetishm where commodity assumes their independent existance and human labour is reduced to a means to an end. Thus burning the vessel of inner creativity ie "the being" of a man. To tackle such instances one can ask how to control desire? Desire can be controlled by abhoring to comparision with others. The parents must make their child understand the imporance of being self content with what they have. It starts right from formative years through early socialisation. Parents must not compare or pressure children to get more marks in exam alike the toppers. Incidences of suicide due to failure in Neet exam stems from such reckless desire to achieve more and more worldly things. One must apply logic and reason for devoping an urge to achieve something rather than following blindly others in path of materialistic awards. One must learn to ask self reflective question like "do i really need it?" Or " why do i need it at all?" It is only when an individual does understand the importance of self contenment that the collective altruism of society will rise. Such society will create an example for others that limitless desire donot hatch to result but most probably drains the mental peace of persons engaged in the act of constant ambition of achieving . However entrenched by our view points about the limit of desire we will leave room for expressing the importance of desire as well. It is only because of desire of an individual like alexandar grahambell that today we have modern telecommunication system like mobile etc. If he would have shed his desire for squeezing the distance between two individual over a wired telephone ,who knows the possible future of comminication that we have today!! If it was not the desire or urge of sir ernest shackleton ,then who might had dared to reach the uninhabitated antartica in such extreme conditions. Persons like shackleton inpsired countries to establish research station in such inhospitable climate. Talking for india we have currently maitri and bharti operational there. Such desire enable us to explore new boundaries of human endurance to discover the unknowable

. Thus to conclude we must enculcate the wiseness to learn about the thin line between curosity and limitless desire. For curosity exposes us to new possiblities and discoveries whereas limitless desire engulf us into darkness of competetion . This darkness is fatal as one reduces him to an unsatisfying individual with constant comparsion. It is our moral duty to make the upcoming generation aware of what toxic desire entails and what curosity will yield