The Gita is not a book of desirelessness!
But it is a book of desires!
It asks you to develop desires!
It never asks you to put an end to desires….
Now are you not shocked when you hear this?...Desirelessness doesn't mean disappearance of desires or annihilation of desires.
Desirelessness= desires minus the undesirable consequences.
What did Arjuna do after having been taught the Gita? Did he leave the desire to fight ? Or did he fight? Strictly speaking-earlier he did not have the desire to fight-now the Gita teaching developed in Arjuna the desire to fight. It is not escape from life but into life. When you touch a hot object, your body instantly leaves it. This attitude is nothing but detached attachment or therapeutic attachment. While climbing up using a rope one has to hold the rope with one hand and leave the other. This process of holding and leaving the rope continues till one reaches the end of the rope. Similarly in life one has to be attached for a while as long as it gives happiness and detach oneself soon to move ahead.
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