Are you a slave to desires? Once a desire is there, nothing will satisfy you until that craving has been fulfilled. Once satisfied, you have left a strong impression in the subconscious mind and with each desire satisfied, the impression becomes deeply rooted in the subconscious , deep like the Grand Canyon. So many millions of years it has taken, countless lifetimes, to create its depths.
So no teacher can help you, no master can help you. You have your own appetite, your desires, your passions. You are the only person who can solve the problem, nobody else. When you are unable to solve the problem, you go to a teacher thinking the teacher can give you a magic formulas to stop this Grand Canyon. If one says he does, then he is not a master, he is not a teacher, he doesn't have mastery or control over his own senses and appetites. If he has transcended this step by step then he knows the difficulties, and he will never say to a student that it is an easy process. If he says it then he has not mastered it.
Swami Vishnu-devananda
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