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Aishwarya Kapoor

The Isha Upanishad Never Told You to Stop Wanting. It Said Enjoy, With Renunciation.

The verse nobody quotes completely

Someone in your life, an aunt, a guru, a well-meaning friend who discovered Vedanta at forty, has told you that wanting things is the problem. That desire is the root of suffering. That a truly spiritual person learns to need nothing. You heard it enough times that you started to believe it. And then you felt guilty every time you wanted something badly enough to lose sleep over it.

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